Recent research found no benefit to patients’ mental health or any lower risk of suicides from involuntary psychiatric...
Mental Health Month: Human Rights Group Renews Call for End of Coercive Practices in the Mental Health System
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Mental Health Rights Articles
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...