Researchers suggest the racial disparity may be evidence of systemic racism in psychiatry, call for measures to reduce...
Racism Articles
Devastating Movement Disorders Caused by Antipsychotic Drugs Not Listed for Discussion at Psychiatrists’ Annual Meeting
Many of the 11 million Americans taking antipsychotics were never told of the risk of developing uncontrollable...
Source of “Scientific Racism” in America Revealed in Black History Month Presentation by DC Human Rights Group
American associations of psychiatrists and psychologists have admitted their members’ long-standing racism, still...
Congressional Police Reform Must Include Ban on Warrior-Style Police Training, Human Rights Group Says
Warrior-mindset training conditions law enforcement officers to fear the people they serve, putting Blacks at greater...
New Government Report Provides Evidence Racism is Still Entrenched in States’ Mental Health Services
Leading psychiatric and psychological associations have admitted creating and perpetuating the systemic racism now...
American Psychiatric Association Belatedly Removes Award Honoring the Slave-Owning Father of American Psychiatry
The award honored Benjamin Rush, whose theories are at the root of the structural racism in psychiatry that the...
Mental Health Activists Protest Psychiatric Organization’s Systemic Racism and Failure to Follow the Science
Psychiatrists are faulted for knowing the theory of a chemical imbalance of the brain was unproven, but failed to...
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...
Would Post-Civil War Black History Have Been Entirely Different Without the Prominent Influence of This Profession?
Equitable treatment for African Americans after the war was thwarted by the racist theories actively promoted by...