Dr. Thomas Szasz was a Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric ...

The United States is increasingly isolated in its continued reliance on forced psychiatric commitment and treatment, as global human rights institutions move decisively to end coercive mental health ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

Recent UN Disability Committee Statement Reinforces the Urgent Need for Government to Abolish Forced Psychiatric Treatment ...

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child responded to reports from CCHR Finland, Australia and Denmark, expressing concerns that ADHD and ADD “are being misdiagnosed and therefore ...

First formed as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) in 1979, it later changed its name to National Alliance on Mental Illness. The group has and continues to rely upon pharmaceutical ...

Documented side effects of antidepressants include suicidal behavior, heart problems, mania, psychosis, hostility, aggression, withdrawal reactions, birth defects and more, according to international ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...

Common brand name Antipsychotics include Abilify, Clozaril, Geodon, Invega, Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Fanapt. To see the total figures from IQVia on the number of people taking antipsychotics in ...

The purpose of this page is to give the facts about Electroshock Treatment (Electroconvulsive therapy, ECT) including it’s history, documented risks, known statistics on modern day usage, as well as a ...

My book, The CIA Doctors, [i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers ...

A young Minnesota adult is fighting against court-ordered brain-damaging electroshock treatment being forced on him. CCHR cites UN reports that say involuntary ECT constitutes torture….