Citizens Commission on Human Rights New England is relaunching its campaign to prohibit the use of devices that the...
Psychiatrists perform electroshock on patients, especially women and older people, despite risks of brain damage and...
The number of schoolchildren subjected to restraint or seclusion is unknown. No federal law bans the practices, which...
Young, male, Black, and economically disadvantaged children were disproportionately restrained with antipsychotic...
New evidence of the extent of and harm from involuntary mental health treatment emerges, as efforts continue to...
Research indicates coercive practices negatively impact physical and mental health, often compounding a person’s...
Researchers suggest the racial disparity may be evidence of systemic racism in psychiatry, call for measures to reduce...
New guidance from World Health Organization and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also calls for laws banning...
UN bodies say involuntary mental health practices harm physical and mental health and must end. Citizens Commission on...