by CCHR National Affairs Office | Sep 1, 2021
Putting patients’ sanity at risk of unpredictable and dangerous effects of psychedelics is a last-ditch attempt to salvage the failing field of psychiatry. Psychiatrists may see the use of psychedelic drugs like LSD (“acid”) and psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”) as a new...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Aug 11, 2021
The incident exemplifies the human rights abuses and coercive practices found in psychiatric hospitals, as stated in reports by the World Health Organization. A homeless man arrested for a crime he didn’t commit was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for more than...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Aug 5, 2021
WHO cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental health treatments, including forced drugging, restraints, and electroshock. CCHR co-founder, psychatrist and humanitarian Thomas Szasz, M.D., said, “The most important deprivation of...
by CCHR National Affairs Office | Jul 29, 2021
Prominent proponents of Minority Mental Health Month have come under Congressional investigation for deep financial ties to psychiatric drug manufacturers. While July was designated as Minority Mental Health Month to bring awareness to the mental health needs of...
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...
