The CCHR National Affairs Office calls on the American Psychiatric Association to oppose coercive mental health...
Open Letter to the American Psychiatric Association on the Human Rights Abuse of Coercive Psychiatric Practices
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Mental Health Rights Articles
World Health Organization Calls for End to Abusive Mental Health Practices It Says Are All Too Common
Report cites evidence indicates that involuntary mental health treatment is ineffective and can worsen an individual’s...
Mental Health Month: Human Rights Group Renews Call for End of Coercive Practices in the Mental Health System
Recent research found no benefit to patients’ mental health or any lower risk of suicides from involuntary psychiatric...
Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Did Not Result in Improved Patient Outcomes or Lower Risk of Death, Researchers Say
The World Health Organization also cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental...
National Minority Health Month: Good Health Includes Good Mental Health, But Know Your Rights
Because of ingrained racism admitted by American psychiatric and psychological associations, minorities should be...
Documentary Questions Forced Electroshock Treatment: Is it a Violation of Human Rights?
Citizens Commission on Human Rights' gripping documentary “Therapy or Torture: The Truth about Electroshock” exposes...
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Exposes Concern about Mental Health Rights of Children in the Nation’s Capital
After new allegations of abuses at Saint Elizabeths Hospital surface, citizens air concerns about violations of...