by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jul 13, 2021
The APA still honors the slave owner whose theories set a precedent for the “scientific racism” of later psychiatrists and psychologists. Dr. Benjamin Rush, called the “father of American psychiatry,” bought a child slave and only freed him after he got “just...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jun 10, 2021
Citizens Commission on Human Rights’ gripping documentary “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock” exposes abuses in the $5.4 billion ECT industry. Psychiatrists working for mental health facilities in the U.S. routinely seek court orders for...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | May 4, 2021
New study is latest to question current high rates of antidepressant prescribing in light of growing evidence of the drugs’ ineffectiveness and risks of harm. An examination of coroner inquests in which the decedents used antidepressants revealed that about half of...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jan 28, 2021
Excerpt from the CCHR Colorado article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails to Fully Admit Psychiatry’s Racial Human Rights Abuses and Role in Creating Racism” The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Dec 30, 2020
Excerpted from Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado article, “Psychiatric Industry Aims to Profit from Racism, Targets African Americans” Rev. Fred Shaw, Jr., founder of Task Force Against Psychiatric Racism and Modern Day Eugenics In response to the...
