With 70 clinical studies assessing psychedelics for mental health treatment, researchers downplay harms, at odds with...
Psychiatry Articles
Putting Emotionally Unstable Patients on Psychedelic Trips: Mental Health Treatment or Human Rights Abuse?
Putting patients’ sanity at risk of unpredictable and dangerous effects of psychedelics is a last-ditch attempt to...
Man Diagnosed As Delusional And Heavily Drugged For Two Years In A Psychiatric Hospital Over Mistaken Identity
The incident exemplifies the human rights abuses and coercive practices found in psychiatric hospitals, as stated in...
Human Rights Group Welcomes World Health Organization’s Stand Against Dehumanizing Involuntary Psychiatric Treatments
WHO cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental health treatments, including forced...
Minority Mental Health Month: Human Rights Group Concerned African Americans May Be Exploited by Marketing Campaigns
Prominent proponents of Minority Mental Health Month have come under Congressional investigation for deep financial...
Minority Mental Health Month: Time for American Psychiatric Association to Disavow Slave-Owning “Father of Psychiatry”?
The APA still honors the slave owner whose theories set a precedent for the “scientific racism” of later psychiatrists...
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 Says American Psychiatric Association Apology for Supporting Racism is Incomplete
Excerpt from the CCHR Colorado article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails to Fully Admit Psychiatry’s...
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Launches Task Force Against Racism and Modern-Day Eugenics
Excerpted from Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado article, “Psychiatric Industry Aims to Profit from...