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We should honor
CCHR because it is really
the organization that for
the first time in human history
has organized a politically,
socially, internationally significant
voice to combat psychiatry.
This has never happened in
human history before.
Thomas Szasz M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
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he psychiatric profession purports to be know the causes or cures for any mental disorder
the sole arbiter on the subject of mental or what their treatments specifically do to the THE REAL CRISISIn Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGINGPsychiatry Destroying Lives
health and diseases of the mind. The patient. They have only theories and conflicting Report and recommendations on the lack of science and Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric
facts, however, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and results within the mental health industry diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth
are lacking any scientific basis for these. As a past M A S S I V E F R A UD P s y c h i a t r y s C o r r u p t I n d u s t r y HARMING YOUTHPsychiatry Destroys Young Minds
1. PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ARE NOT MEDICAL president of the World Psychiatric Association Report and recommendations on a criminal mental Report and recommendations on harmful mental health
DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for stated, The time when psychiatrists considered health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
calling a condition a disease: a predictable group that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In
of symptoms and the cause of the symptoms or the future, the mentally ill have to learn to live PSYCHIATRIC HOAXThe Subversion of Medicine COMMUNITY RUINPsychiatrys Coercive Care
Report and recommendations on psychiatrys destructive Report and recommendations on the failure of community
an understanding of their physiology (function) with their illness. impact on health care mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs
must be proven and established. Chills and fever
are symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. 4. THE THEORY THAT MENTAL DISORDERS PSEUDOSCIENCEPsychiatrys False Diagnoses HARMING ARTISTSPsychiatry Ruins Creativity
Diseases are proven to exist by objective evidence DERIVE FROM A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN Report and recommendations on the unscientific fraud Report and recommendations on psychiatry assaulting the arts
and physical tests. Yet, no mental diseases have THE BRAIN IS UNPROVEN OPINION, NOT FACT.
perpetrated by psychiatry UNHOLY ASSAULTPsychiatry versus Religion
ever been proven to medically exist. One prevailing psychiatric theory (key to SCHIZOPHRENIAPsychiatrys For Profit Disease Report and recommendations on psychiatrys subversion of
psychotropic drug sales) is that mental disorders Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and religious belief and practice
2. PSYCHIATRISTS DEAL EXCLUSIVELY WITH result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. false diagnosis
ERODING JUSTICEPsychiatrys Corruption of Law
MENTAL DISORDERS, NOT PROVEN DISEASES. As with its other theories, there is no biological THE BRUTAL REALITYHarmful Psychiatric Treatments Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting the
While mainstream physical medicine treats or other evidence to prove this. Representative Report and recommendations on the destructive practices of courts and corrective services
diseases, psychiatry can only deal with of a large group of medical and biochemistry electroshock and psychosurgery
disorders. In the absence of a known cause or experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of ELDERLY ABUSECruel Mental Health Programs
PSYCHIATRIC RAPEAssaulting Women and Children
physiology, a group of symptoms seen in many Blaming the Brain says: [T]here are no tests Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing seniors
Report and recommendations on widespread sex crimes
different patients is called a disorder or syndrome. available for assessing the chemical status of against patients within the mental health system
Harvard Medical Schools Joseph Glenmullen, a living persons brain. CHAOS & TERRORManufactured by Psychiatry
M.D., says that in psychiatry, all of its diagnoses DEADLY RESTRAINTSPsychiatrys Therapeutic Assault Report and recommendations on the role of psychiatry
Report and recommendations on the violent and dangerous in international terrorism
are merely syndromes [or disorders], clusters of 5. THE BRAIN IS NOT THE REAL CAUSE
use of restraints in mental health facilities
symptoms presumed to be related, not diseases. OF LIFES PROBLEMS. People do experience CREATING RACISMPsychiatrys Betrayal
As Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry problems and upsets in life that may result in PSYCHIATRYHooking Your World on Drugs Report and recommendations on psychiatry causing racial
emeritus, observes, There is no blood or other mental troubles, sometimes very serious. But Report and recommendations on psychiatry creating todays conflict and genocide
biological test to ascertain the presence or to represent that these troubles are caused by drug crisis
absence of a mental illness, as there is for most incurable brain diseases that can only be CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
REHAB FRAUDPsychiatrys Drug Scam
bodily diseases. alleviated with dangerous pills is dishonest, The International Mental Health Watchdog
Report and recommendations on methadone and other
harmful and often deadly. Such drugs are disastrous psychiatric drug rehabilitation programs
3. PSYCHIATRY HAS NEVER ESTABLISHED THE often more potent than a narcotic and capable
CAUSE OF ANY MENTAL DISORDERS. Leading of driving one to violence or suicide. They mask WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the
psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric the real cause of problems in life and debilitate
advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric, medical doctor.
Association and the U.S. National Institute of the individual, so denying him or her the oppor-
Mental Health admit that psychiatrists do not tunity for real recovery and hope for the future.
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Watchdog for
Mental Health ................................2
Declaration of Mental
Health Rights................................28
Recommendations ........................33
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INTRODUCTION
Watchdog for Mental Health
I
n 1969, the Citizens Commission on Human suffering from a series of failed relationships and
Rights (CCHR) was established to investigate addicted to amphetamines for weight control,
and expose psychiatric violations of human Farmer was admitted to a Washington State psychi-
rights and to clean up the field of mental heal- atric hospital. Raped by orderlies, prostituted by
ing. For well over a century, psychiatric theory hospital staff to soldiers from a nearby military base,
had held that because neither spiritual matters nor locked in a cage, subjected to electro- and insulin
the mind could be measured with physical instru- shock treatments, given ice-cold shock baths, pow-
ments, they did not exist and had no place in mental erful, debilitating drugs and psychosurgery
health treatment. Frances Farmers person-
Typical psychiatric ality and career were
practice meant that pa- I must relate the horrors as destroyed.
tients were treated like Unlike many, Farmer
animals they were I recall them, in the hope that some survived and was able to
stripped of their legal force for mankind might be moved to tell of her experiences:
rights and possessions, Never console yourself
brutalized and ware- relieve forever the unfortunate creatures into believing that the ter-
housed in degrading who are still imprisoned in the back ror has passed, for it
conditions. Inmates were looms as large and as evil
terrorized with electric wards of decaying institutions. today as it did in the des-
shock treatment, often as picable era of Bedlam.
punishment and without Frances Farmer, actress, But I must relate the hor-
consent. Psychiatric lobot- 1940s psychiatric abuse victim rors as I recall them, in
omies and other psy- the hope that some force
chosurgical procedures for mankind might be
destroyed minds and lives. Powerful neuroleptic moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures
(nerve seizing) drugs caused irreversible brain and who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decay-
nervous system damage making patients sluggish, ing institutions.
apathetic and less alert.1 Furthermore, patients were The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is
assaulted and sexually abusedall under the that force.
guise of therapy. Any claim of a scientific basis was Inspired by visionary humanitarian L. Ron
a hoax. Hubbardwho identified the abuse inherent in psy-
Consider the story of Hollywood actress Frances chiatrys acts when he said, There must not be any
Farmer, who over a six-year period in the 1940s influential group dedicated to mans degrada-
appeared in 18 films, three Broadway plays and 30 tion,CCHR today is the preeminent international
major radio shows, all before the age of 27. Then, psychiatric watchdog.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Fight for
Basic Rights
B
y depicting those they label mentally ill of human rights, resulting in the bills defeat in
as a danger to themselves or others, the Senate. For years afterward, however, psychi-
psychiatrists have convinced govern- atrists still referred to the language of the
ments and courts that depriving such Siberia bill as their preferred model legislation
individuals of their liberty, is mandato- for involuntary commitment.
ry for the safety of all concerned. Wherever psy- In 1966, the International Covenant on Civil
chiatry has succeeded in this campaign, extreme and Political Rights was adopted by the United
abuses of human rights have resulted. One partic- Nations General Assembly. Article 9 states:
ularly odious attempt to give psychiatrists control Everyone has the right to liberty and security of
over the American populace was made in 1956. person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary
In January of arrest or detention. No
that year, the U.S. one shall be deprived
Congress quietly and of his liberty except on
unanimously passed
In 1969, Hungarian refugee Victor such grounds and in
an Alaskan Mental Gyory was involuntarily committed, accordance with such
Health Act, drawn up stripped naked, held in isolation against procedures as are
and lobbied for by the his will, and then forced to undergo established by law.
top of U.S. psychiatry, It was shortly after
which earmarked one
electroshock. CCHR stepped in, obtaining that, CCHR was found-
million acres of land in his release by establishing that Gyory had ed and on these very
Alaska to be fenced off been diagnosed as schizophrenic principles. It has, thus,
and set aside for a psy- with paranoid tendencies simply been one of its most
chiatric facility where important missions
any person in the
because he did not speak English. to protect individuals
country could be com- from psychiatrys easy
mitted involuntarily seizure laws.
by a psychiatrist. In 1969, Hungarian refugee Victor Gyory was
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the involuntarily committed to a Pennsylvania insti-
Scientology religion, likened this nefarious psy- tution, stripped naked, held in isolation against
chiatric plan to a Siberia-type camp for anyone to his will, and then forced to undergo electroshock.
be committed against their will and dubbed it He was refused the right to an attorney. Alerted to
Siberia USA! He spearheaded a coalition of the case, CCHR obtained the aid of Hungarian-
members of the Church of Scientology and civil born Dr. Thomas Szasz, who discovered that
rights groups who launched an intense campaign Gyory had been diagnosed as schizophrenic
against this plan to legalize a wholesale violation with paranoid tendencies for one simple
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The Fight for Basic Rights
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PROTECTING HUMAN
RIGHTS IN RUSSIA:
Federal regulations were passed that year that According to Russian historian-archivist
prohibited the use of physical and chemical Anatoli Prokopenko (below), political
(powerful mind-altering drugs) restraints to repression using psychiatric means still
coerce or discipline patients. The regulations also occurs in Russia today. CCHR has
ordered a national reporting system to be brought this continuing outrage to light
implemented and for government funding to be by exposing involuntary commitment in
cut to any facility that did not comply.5 that country.
In Denmark, CCHR helped secure the
release of individuals wrongly and forcibly incar-
cerated, including some who had been held in
bed restraints.6
After the discovery that private psychiatric
hospitals in Japan were forcibly incarcerating
and illegally restraining elderly patients, regula-
tions were passed in 2000 prohibiting the use of
physical restraints on the elderly.7
In 2000, the U.S. state of North Carolina
passed a law regulating the use of restraints and
isolation and implemented a mandatory report-
ing system, which imposed fines for noncompli- As a result of CCHRs efforts,
ance with the regulations. numerous legal safeguards and
In 2003, CCHR worked with other organi-
zations to prevent passage of an involuntary protections against arbitrary
commitment law in Russia that would have psychiatric incarceration and the use
allowed psychiatrists to arbitrarily commit
citizens, including adolescents, to a psychiatric of violent restraint procedures have
facility without a legal proceeding. been secured in many countries.
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CHAPTER
Protecting
TWO
Childrens Rights
A
n important function of CCHR has childhood psychiatric diagnoses, millions of
been to protect the rights of parents schoolchildren around the world now take a
and children from psychiatric coer- daily dose of prescription psychiatric drugs,
cion and harm. CCHR testifies some in the same class as narcotics, others so
before congressional and govern- powerful they can drive young people to commit
ment investigation panels around the world on psy- violent acts and suicide. As a result, schools in
chiatrys epidemic labeling, drugging and experimen- many countries are more like mental health clin-
tal treatment of children. ics than institutions of learning.
Because of the American Psychiatric Associations Internationally, CCHRs information and
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders assistance has helped parents to protect their
(DSM-IV), common children from psychia-
childhood behavior trys false diagnoses and
fidgeting, squirming, CCHR is a distinguished harmful drugs.
speaking out of turn,
losing toys or pencils, organization, dedicated to the Parents Speak Out
not completing home- School psycholo-
work, running about
most worthy cause the gists and psychiatrists
excessivelyis arbi- protection of our children coerced New York moth-
trarily labeled as symp- er Patricia Weathers into
toms of a mental disor- from psychiatric drugs. drugging her 10-year-
der, such as Attention old son, Michael, after
Deficit Hyperactivity Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld he was diagnosed with
Disorder (ADHD). Educator and author ADHD. Within six
Despite the complete months he was with-
absence of scientific drawn, stopped socializ-
proof, psychiatry has declared that learning disor- ing with other children, lost his appetite and
ders such as ADHD actually exist as the result of a couldnt sleep properly. When she took him off
chemical imbalance or some other problem with a the drugs, Child Protective Services charged her
childs brain. with medical neglect. She maintained custody by
Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist, neurolo- obtaining an independent medical report show-
gist and author of The Hoax of Hyperactivity ing her sons problems were drug-related and
reported, Hyperactivity is not a disease. Its a that he needed educational solutions. CCHR
hoax perpetrated by doctors who have no idea assisted Mrs. Weathers to gain media coverage of
whats really wrong with these children.8 this horrific situation. She subsequently estab-
Based on this diagnosis and other false lished her own successful parents rights group.
CHAPTER TWO
P ro t e c t i n g C h i l d re n s R i g h t s
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CHAPTER THREE
Uncovering and
Exposing Genocide
O
n November 20, 1945, American GermanyPsychiatrys Dark Past
prosecutor Robert Jackson told the CCHRs national chapter in Germany con-
International Military Tribunal ducted comprehensive research that established
conducting the trial of Nazi med- conclusively that Germanys leading psychia-
ical doctors, The wrongs which trists provided both the scientific justification
we seek to condemn and punish have been so and impetus for Hitler and the Nazi government
calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that to destroy life unworthy of living.
civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored They laid the foundation for the Holocaust
because it cannot survive their being repeated.12 by being primary drafters of and contributors to
While psychiatry tried to hide any connec- the 1933 Sterilization Act and the 1935 Racial
tion between itself and Purity Law, which
the racial genocide of later became a death
the Nazi Holocaust, Through CCHRs research sentence for Jews and
the fact remains that inferior peoples in the
psychiatry spawned and publications, the world at concentration camps.
eugenics almost three large is now able to know and German psychiatrists
decades before the created the so-called
Nazis took power in recognize the trail of repugnant T-4 Unit to eradicate
1933. The historical psychiatric ideologies precipitating life devoid of value,
evidence shows that it and in 1940 began
was psychiatry that these horrors and to prevent killing groups of men-
turned the Nazis into their recurrence. tal patients to test effi-
mass murderers. And cient methods of mass
its ideology has con- murder and disposal
tinued to cause catastrophic social and political using shower-room gas chambers and ovensa
upheaval around the world, underlying South full two years before the Final Solution confer-
Africas apartheid, Russias political gulags, the ence determined to launch the Holocaust. While
Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts, Italys concentra- German psychiatric institutions held 320,000
tion camp asylumsand it now plays a decisive inmates in 1939, only 40,000, a mere 12.5%, were
role in the rise of global terrorism. still alive in 1945. Psychiatrists had no qualms
However, through CCHRs research and about boasting that the eradication of impure
publications, the world at large is now able to Jews and others so labeled, was their plan all
know and recognize the trail of repugnant psy- along and that Hitler was merely their execution
chiatric ideologies precipitating these horrors arm. Ernst Rdin, the psychiatrist who helped
and to prevent their recurrence. spearhead the extermination effort and co-wrote
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Uncovering and Exposing Genocide
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Hendrik Verwoerd
the 1920s, when psychiatrists there were perfect- First apartheid Prime
ing their racial purity ideas. Indeed, Verwoerd was Minister, psychologist
so fond of Germany that a court accused him of Hendrik Verwoerd
being helpful to the German propaganda machine (above left), studied
during WWII. Given this background, it is not eugenics in German
Hitler, which prompted the president of the surprising that his apartheid ideas read like the universities in the 1920s,
German Society of Psychiatrists to ask the govern- Nazis master race plan. paving the way for
ment to silence CCHRof course, to no avail. Members of the Church of Scientology and apartheid. This later set
CCHR discovered that tens of thousands of the scene for the
South Africa Blacks were incarcerated against their will, in exploitation of tens of
CCHRs main chapter in South Africa, while disused mining compounds converted to psychi- thousands of black
investigating mental health labor camps in the atric camps, and were excessively drugged and South Africans
1970s, uncovered that eugenics, the same psychi- subjected to painful electroshock without anes- in psychiatric slave labor
atric ideology that formed the foundation of the thetics. They were hired out to companies to camps (above).
Holocaust, had also spawned the detestable perform unpaid labormaking coat hangers, CCHR presented
apartheid policy. Hendrik Verwoerd, who taught brushes, mats, sheets and other items under the documentation of this
what he called applied psychology, was the chief guise of industrial therapy. Shocked by this and other apartheid-
architect of apartheid during the time he was first expos of their hidden slave camps, the era abuses by psychiatry to
Minister for Education and Native Affairs and, guilty psychiatrists convinced the apartheid gov- the South African Truth
between 195864, as Prime Minister of the country. ernment to revise the Mental Health Act to make and Reconciliation
Verwoerd had studied in German universities in it a criminal offense to report on conditions in Commission in 1997
(far left).
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Uncovering and Exposing Genocide
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Jovan Raskovic
What it discovered
was that the old psychi-
atric ideas of racial
hygiene and eugenics
still have the potential
Radovan Karadzic
to wreak havoc: The 10-
year conflict, which left
tens of thousands dead
and over a million
homeless, had the same
psychiatric theories at
Slobodan Milosevic their roots. The instiga-
tors of the wars were
After reviewing CCHRs any psychiatric hospital or to take photographs known to the world as politicians. However, what
material on the Balkan issue, of them. Unwilling to have a dictatorial ban was not generally known was that both Jovan
members of the Council of inhibit its free speech rights, CCHR went outside Raskovic, the founder of the ultra-nationalist Social
Europe signed a resolution of South Africa, reporting its evidence to the Democratic Party (SDP) party, and Radovan
recognizing psychiatrists World Health Organization (WHO). WHO Karadzic, the wartime leader, were also psychia-
Karadzic and Raskovic as responded with an investigation of the psychi- trists. Also unknown was that Slobodan Milosevic,
the architects of ethnic atric camps and in 1983, published a report: It Serbias strongman president during the wars, was a
cleansing in Bosnia, and confirmed CCHRs reports and findings and 25-year patient of Karadzic. After Raskovic died and
recommending that EU condemned the use of patients for unpaid labor, Karadzic went underground (he is wanted by the
Council members study stating, This situation has no parallel in the his- U.N. to be tried for crimes against humanity),
tory and present state of psychiatric care; it cer- Milosevic kept the conflict against ethnic minorities
CCHRs information about
tainly does have a parallel in the ownership and going. He was finally arrested and put on trial by
the issue. President
trading of slaves. The Hagues War Crimes Tribunal for his role in the
Milosevica Karadzic In 1997, CCHR presented oral and written genocidal wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.
patientthen perpetrated testimony to South Africas post-apartheid Truth In September 1999, members of the Council of
and financed ethnic and Reconciliation Commission about crimes com- Europe signed a Resolution which recognized psy-
cleansing in Kosovo. mitted by both psychiatrists and psychologists chiatrists as the architects of the ethnic cleansing
during the countrys dark days of racial segregation. campaign. The Resolution encouraged and invited
Confronted with indisputable evidence, the the Council members to study the material that
Psychological Society of South Africa finally had to has been put together and researched by the
admit that psychological studies had aimed at French chapter of the Citizens Commission on
discrediting Blacks as intellectually inferior. Human Rights.13
Subsequently, in 1998, legislation was called for to
scrap all racist psychological tests. Italys Contemporary
In 2001, the new South African government Concentration Camps
repealed the apartheid-era ban on photographing or Along with officials and members of the Italian
reporting abuses in psychiatric facilities. Psychiatry parliament, CCHRs Italian chapter investigated
can no longer be shielded from the external scrutiny it concentration-camp-like conditions in the countrys
requires. psychiatric asylums, leading to their closure
by edict.
The Balkans In April 1991, CCHR, accompanied by these
The French CCHR office also conducted exten- officials and media representatives, appeared unan-
sive research into ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and nounced at one such asylum. Hundreds of people
Kosovo, because racial conflict is commonly caused were found living like animals, housed naked in
by a third party not recognized by the warring oppo- locked rooms with peeling walls and old stained
nents. CCHR reported its findings with complete tables and chairs. Beds were covered with human
evidence to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in The feces and urine. Staff had been pocketing govern-
Hague and the Council of Europe. ment funds instead of spending it on patient care.
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CCHR co-founder Dr. Thomas Szasz (above left) with CCHR representatives,
bringing evidence of human rights violations and recommendations for reform to the
Council of Europe and other European bodies.
It is important that
psychiatrys crimes
are made known
Simon Wiesenthal,
Internationally renowned Nazi-hunter:
I appreciate, from the bottom of my heart, your project to active-
ly and publicly decry the abuses of psychiatry. Even in our
time, people considered misfits [have been] taken away and
buried alive; it is important that psychiatrys crimes are made
known and that everything possible is done to stop them.
CHAPTER FOUR
The Right to
Informed Consent
H
uman rights include freedom upon them in the processall without any
from brutality and cruel, inhu- accountability.
man or degrading treatment and A primary objective of CCHR has been to
with equal protection of the achieve the right of fully informed consent for
law. There is no doubt that psy- all patients in the mental health system before
chiatrys major treatments are human rights they can be subjected to any of psychiatrys
abuses and minimally require informed consent invasive and destructive procedures.
before being administered. CCHR has been in the vanguard, demand-
In medicine, as opposed to psychiatry, the ing full disclosure of the side effects of
standard for informed consent includes com- psychiatric treatment.
municating the nature For example, elec-
and purpose of a pro- troshock treatment
posed treatment or (ECT) creates a grand
procedure and the Nobody understands mal convulsion in a
risks and benefits of body by the applica-
such treatments and precisely how ECT does tion of 180 to 460
the alternatives, re- volts of electricity
gardless of their cost
anything but there is no across the brain.
or the extent to which disputing that ECT causes Unlike neurolo-
the treatment options gical surgery for
are covered by health damage to the brain. legitimate physical
insurance.16 conditions such as
When CCHR was Colin Ross, psychiatrist tumors, where the
formed in 1969, pa- brain is visibly im-
tients subjected to paired, psychosur-
psychosurgery, electroshock and psychiatric gery attempts to alter behavior by destroying
drugs enjoyed none of the informed consent perfectly healthy brain tissuetearing it with a
rights of general medical patients. scalpel, burning it with electrode implants or,
While doctors cannot force their patients to now less common, shredding the frontal lobes
undergo an appendectomy, or chemotherapy with a miniature ice pick. The death rate from
for cancer, psychiatrists have acquired tremen- psychosurgery is up to 10%.
dous power which enables them to not only Until the protections were instituted due to
force citizens to submit to electroshock, psy- CCHR and its co-campaignersvictims groups,
chosurgery and drug treatments, but also to human and civil rights advocatesECT and
inflict grievous physical and mental damage psychosurgery, incredibly, could be given arbi-
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The Right to Informed Consent
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CHAPTER FIVE
Exposing Criminal
Psychiatric Abuse
S
exual abuse of emotionally fragile psychiatrists and psychologists, Paul McDevitt, a
patients generates the growing outrage Massachusetts counselor, said, These people have
against psychiatrists and psychologists no ethics at all. Theyre morally bankrupt. Theyre
and, traditionally, they have been subject- like the grave robbers in old England who provided
ed to the least accountability because the cadavers for the medical schools.20
perpetrators are often protected by their peers. It is CCHR continuously investigates criminality
a damning commentary on mental health profes- within the mental health field and assists patients
sionals that an astounding 10% of them admit to in reporting criminal abuse to the police and other
sexually abusing both their adult and child authorities. It supports prosecutors with research
patients. According to and evidence. CCHR
one study, the figure created a website,
could be as high as 25%.
These people have no ethics www.psychcrime.org,
CCHR has exposed at all. Theyre morally bankrupt. that has recorded
such crimes and cam- Theyre like the grave robbers in old more than 1,000 con-
paigned to bring the England who provided cadavers victions of psychia-
perpetrators to justice, trists, psychologists
especially mental health
for the medical schools. and psychotherapists
practitioners who rape Paul McDevitt, between 1998 and
or sexually abuse their Massachusetts Counselor 2004; 43% of the
patients, but hide behind convictions were for
their roles as therapists to mitigate their crimes. fraud, theft and embezzlement; 32% for sex crimes;
In the course of its investigations into patient 7% for patient assault and violent crime; 6% for
complaints, CCHR also discovered massive mental drug offenses and another 6% for manslaughter and
health care fraud schemes such as: murder.
Billing insurance companies for sexually
abusing a patient and calling it therapy; Patient Protections
Charging an insurance company for mental In protecting patients from sexual abuse
health therapy when the patient is in a coma and fraud the following safeguards have been
or dead; achieved:
Providing daily group therapy sessions Dozens of criminal statutes have been enact-
that consisted of giving away free cups of coffee, ed addressing the increasing number of sex crimes
socializing and listening to music; committed by psychiatrists and psychologists in
Some elderly patients were billed for the United States, Australia (Victoria), Germany,
watching television or playing bingo. Sweden and Israel.
Speaking about mental health fraud by Swedens law, passed in 1994, provides up to
CHAPTER FIVE
E x p o si n g Cr i m i n a l Ps y ch i a t r i c Ab u s e
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Robert Butcher,
Barrister and Solicitor, Western Australia:
I have worked with CCHR for 24 years and I know
them to be a dedicated organization working to achieve better legal
rights for people with mental illness. CCHR has written submis-
sions to government on mental health law reform, raised public
awareness about mental health issues and has encouraged and
activated others in their effective efforts to bring about a better,
fairer and more workable system.
Jonathan Lubell,
New York attorney, former president
of the National Lawyers Guild,
New York City Chapter:
I had become familiar with the work of CCHR in the human
rights area as it pertains to psychiatric misconduct. I found
CCHR to be unrelenting in its efforts to expose the wrongdoers and
to assure the end of their activities. CCHRs efforts to defend the
victims of this misconduct and abuse have been impressive.
Finally, it is clear beyond question that principles based upon
concern for human rights motivates CCHR.
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Achieving
SIX
Mental Health
T
he right to have a thorough, physical psychiatric problems but exhibit physical symptoms
and clinical examination by a compe- that may mimic mental conditions, and so they
tent registered general practitioner of are misdiagnosed, put on drugs, put in institutions,
ones choice, to ensure that ones men- and sent into a limbo from which they may
tal condition is not caused by any unde- never return.27
tected and untreated physical illness, injury or Through the broad dissemination of CCHRs
defect, and the right to seek a second medical opin- publications (books, newsletters, booklets and pam-
ion of ones choice, is provided for in Article 3 of phlets) and its Internet site, more and more patients,
CCHRs Declaration of Mental Health Rights. families, professionals, lawmakers and countless
CCHR has long been an advocate for competent, other concerned citizens are becoming educated on
non-psychiatric, med- the truth about psychia-
ical evaluation of people try, and that something
with alleged mental
The main task of CCHR effective can and must
problems. Undiagnosed has been to achieve reform in the be done about it.
and untreated physical field of mental health and the preservation CCHRs publica-
conditions can manifest of the rights of individuals under the tions show the destruc-
as psychiatric symp- tive impact of psychia-
toms. During 1982,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. try upon education, the
CCHR campaigned for CCHR has been responsible for many welfare of women and
Senate Bill 929 in great reforms. children, racism, justice,
California, which estab- Erica-Irene Daes, special rapporteur in morals, the elderly, reli-
lished a pilot project to her report to the United Nations, 1986 gion, arts and society as
provide medical evalua- a whole.
tion of people in public Johanna Reeve-
psychiatric hospitals.26 CCHR was represented on Alexander, a doctor of nutrition at the Tara Health
the advisory committee that was established to over- Center in Western Australia states, I have seen
see the pilot. The findings, officially published in within CCHR a committed, caring, humanitarian
1989, found that 39% of the more than 500 patients team of dedicated professional people who are
studied had a physical disease that had been undi- helping to bring to light the appalling truth behind
agnosed by mental health professionals. some psychiatric practices. Without CCHR open-
Charles B. Inlander, president of The Peoples ing the gates and shining a torch on these practices
Medical Society, wrote in Medicine on Trial, People via their literature, awareness campaigns, interven-
with real or alleged psychiatric or behavioral disor- tion at government levels and continual research,
ders are being misdiagnosedand harmedto an the public would be quite unaware of the malprac-
astonishing degree. Many of them do not have tice at this level of medicine.
CHAPTER SIX
Achieving Mental Health
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PROTECTING FREEDOM
Declaration of Mental
Health Rights
T
he Nuremberg Code and the United More About CCHR
Nations Universal Declaration of Human CCHR investigates, documents and exposes
Rights were written in 1947 and 1948 psychiatric abuse. Thousands of individuals each
respectively, to help prevent the recur- year contact CCHR to report instances of psychiatric
rence of horrific human rights violations, harm and crime, including imprisonment, fraud, sex-
including the medical experiments and genocide per- ual abuse, assault, as well as inhumane treatment
petrated by Nazi psychiatrists during World War II. and conditions in psychiatric institutions. CCHRs
The following provisions of the Universal investigations have led to the criminal prosecution of
Declaration of Human Rights underscore the hundreds of psychiatrists, psychologists and mental
universal intention of health workers. This has
the authors: prompted legislators and
Article 3: Everyone insurance companies to
has the right to life, lib- No one shall be subjected to develop statutes and reg-
erty and security of ulations, respectively, to
person; cruel, inhuman or degrading protect individuals from
Article 5: No one psychiatric harm.
shall be subjected to treatment or punishment CCHR also testifies
torture or to cruel, inhu- Article 5, Universal Declaration before government inves-
man or degrading treat- of Human Rights tigation panels all over
ment or punishment; the world about psychi-
Article 7: All are atric abuse, prepares
equal before the law statistics, reports and evi-
and are entitled without any discrimination to dence for government and law enforcement agencies,
equal protection of the law. and provides public service briefings for the media. It
The Nuremberg Code is concerned with the works with like-minded groups, as well as investiga-
law and ethics of human experimentation. Point tive, legislative and judicial bodies, health depart-
1 of the Code affirms the essential right of ments and medical boards, to bring about human
patients to be protected from involuntary med- rights in the mental health field.
ical experimentation. CCHR recommends that persons who feel they
With the passage of time have come a number suffer adverse reactions from psychiatric treatments
of psychiatric efforts to erode the protections guar- seek competent medical examination by caring non-
anteed by these two agreements. Today, many psy- psychiatric medical specialists.
chiatrists violate the fundamental principles of the Our Commission of citizens and professionals
Declaration of Human Rights and the Nuremberg includes doctors and other medical specialists, legal
Code as a matter of routine daily practice. experts and civil and human rights advocates who
Through stigmatizing labels, unscientific advise us on the myriad of issues arising from
diagnoses, easy seizure commitment laws and CCHRs humanitarian programs.
brutal, depersonalizing treatments, thousands
around the world suffer under psychiatrys coer- Declaration of Mental Health Rights
cive system every day. It is a system that exempli- In 1969, CCHR wrote its Declaration of Mental
fies human rights abuse. Modern psychiatry still Health Rights. The purpose of this document is to
has no scientific veracity and knows and admits it, define, popularize and defend mental health rights
but keeps up the charade for the sake of profit. for the mentally disturbed.
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A partial list of these rights includes: A patient must have the right to have copies of
No person shall be given psychiatric or his/her psychiatric hospital records and to take
psychological treatment against his or her will. legal action with regard to any false information
No person may be denied his or her personal contained therein which may be damaging to ones
liberty by reason of so-called mental illness, without reputation.
a fair jury trial by laymen and with proper legal A patient must have the right to sue psychia-
representation. trists, their associations and colleges, the institution,
No person shall be admitted to or held in a or staff for unlawful detention, false reports or
psychiatric facility because of their religious, politi- damaging treatment.
cal or cultural beliefs and practices. A patient has the right to a safe environment
Any patient has the right to be treated with dig- without having in the environment, persons
nity as a human being; to have a thorough, physical placed there for criminal reasons.
and clinical examination by a competent registered A patient has the right to education
general practitioner of ones choice; to accept or or training so as to better enable one to earn a
refuse treatment but in particular, the right to refuse living when discharged, the right of choice
sterilization, electroshock, insulin shock, lobotomy over what kind of education or training is received,
(or any other psychosurgical brain operation), aver- and
sion therapy, narcotherapy, deep sleep therapy and The right to receive visitors and a minister
psychiatric drugs. of ones own faith.
1
Celebrities Fight for
Childrens Rights
M
any celebrities sup-
port CCHRs cam-
paign to protect chil-
dren from psychiatric abuse:
1) Singer and composer Lisa
Marie Presley testifies before
the federal U.S. Government
Reform Committee on psy-
chiatric child drugging;
2) Multi-Grammy Award-win-
2 3 ning singer David Pomeranz
performs at a charity concert.
3) Actresses Kirstie Alley and
Kelly Preston lead CCHRs
march for childrens rights.
Exhibitions
CCHRs international head-
quarters in Los Angeles houses
a permanent exhibition with
documentaries on various
aspects of psychiatry. 4) Its 12
traveling exhibitions have been
displayed internationally, in-
cluding at the site of the Dachau
concentration camp memorial
4 in Germany.
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MISSION
STATEMENT
5
THE CITIZENS
COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
6 7
CITIZENS COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Human Rights Awards
C CHR has the tremendous good fortune to work
with like-minded individuals in its efforts to
clean up the field of mental health. These are
people of courage who, by virtue of their integrity and
willingness to take a stand, have withstood personal
Janice Hill,
Founder of Overload Network, a Scottish group
that educates parents about psychiatric stigmatiza-
tion and drugging of children:
CCHR is a sane prescription for what ails our
attacks and held their ground for what they knew was children, our schools and our communities. Its a no
right. Each year, CCHR International presents human nonsense, say-it-the-way-that-it-is, type of group. I
rights awards to such individuals. These have included hope that every parent and teacher will continue to
legislators, educators, doctors, journalists, attorneys and
have access to CCHRs outstanding up-to-date factu-
authors. The statements of a few of them follow. al data. I also hope that every parent and teacher
takes CCHRs superb advice to heart. Do not allow
Beverly Eakman, harmful psychiatric diag-
Co-founder, U.S. noses, treatments and
National Education Throughout my journey drugs to ruin another
Consortium and author: to seek justice and to restore the childs life, another
In my experience, childs future.
CCHR is the only organ- human dignity deprived myself and my
ization that is playing sister Lisa [killed in the gas chambers], Dr. Mary Ann Block,
hardball against psychi- Author, No More ADHD:
atric fraud and abuse. It I have met many honest and helpful I am so proud and
was the first to seriously people. CCHR members privileged to be associ-
Beverly Eakman spearhead a movement ated with this remark-
against it. It has stead- count among them. able organization. The
fastly insisted on the level of commitment
individuals constitu-
Elvira Manthey and sincerity that ema-
Survivor of Nazi Euthanasia
tional right to freedom nates from everyone is
of conscience. It has truly extraordinary.
worked tirelessly to protect the right of all parents to I feel fortunate to have found you, but there is
direct the education and upbringing of their chil- no doubt in my mind that it was meant to be. I real-
dren. I salute CCHR for its incredible persistence. ized that I was not alone in my fight [for childrens
rights] and that I could work with CCHR to accom-
Elvira Manthey, plish the same goals. Much good work has been
Sole survivor of Nazi Germanys done through the efforts of CCHR and all the people
Mary Ann Block Brandenburg-Havel psychiatric institution: associated with this organization. Sadly, there is still
Throughout my journey to seek justice and to so much more work left to do.
restore the human dignity deprived myself and my
sister Lisa [killed in the gas chambers], I have met Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D.,
many honest and helpful people. CCHR members Author, The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses:
count among them. If people who strive for good I am honored to be part of the ongoing effort of
and for freedom would unite and be watchful and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to defend
get others to be alert, then this horror can never hap- us all against the false beliefs and damaging practices
pen again. Never again can so much pain, destruc- of psychiatry. I have done a great deal of my work in
tion and evil be brought upon a social group. I alliance with CCHR and I deeply appreciate all the
appreciate your support; it gives me the power and staff there. There is immense untold damage caused
courage to continue until the day when German psy- to all of us by psychiatry today. The good news is that
chiatrists finally take full responsibility for their more and more people are becoming aware and more
Elvira Manthey predecessors crimes. and more of us are taking action.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendations
1 Concerned citizens and groups should relentlessly advocate legal and policy protections
that force psychiatry to honor every individuals right to be treated with humanity and respect
and to recognize the inherent dignity of the person. These include protections from economic,
2
sexual and other forms of exploitation.
Legal protections should be put in place to ensure that psychiatrists and psychologists are
prohibited from violating the right of any person to exercise all civil, political, economic,
social and cultural rights as recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, and in other relevant instruments, such as the Body of Principles
3
for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment.
No person should ever be forced to undergo electric shock treatment, psychosurgery, coercive
psychiatric treatment, or the enforced administration of mind-altering drugs. Parents cannot
be forced or manipulated into permitting the drugging of their children by psychiatrists,
other practitioners or school personnel. Governments should outlaw such abuses.
4 The responsible officials of regulatory agencies or their advisors must be held accountable and
criminally charged for harm caused by psychiatric drugs and other psychiatric treatment if it
is established that they knew, or should have known, of such harm either through clinical trial
results, adverse reaction reports or broadly available public information.
5 Every individual who has been subject to such abuse should be helped to file a complaint
to police and professional licensing bodies and have this abuse investigated and prosecuted.
The individual should be helped also to obtain competent legal advice about filing a civil suit
for damages against any offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital, associations and teach-
ing institutions.
6 The United Nations, NGOs, human rights groups and concerned citizens should work
together to create a new international human rights covenant that states sign and ratify to
protect the right of all individuals from mind control and psychiatric abuse.
C I T I Z E N S CO M M I S S I O N O N H U M A N R I G H T S
Recommendations
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IMPORTANT FACTS
About Psychiatry
T
he psychiatric profession purports to be the know the causes or cures for any mental disorder
sole arbiter on the subject of mental health or what their treatments specifically do to the
and diseases of the mind. The facts, how- patient. They have only theories and conflicting
ever, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and
are lacking any scientific basis for these. As a past
1. PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ARE NOT MEDICAL president of the World Psychiatric Association stat-
DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for ed, The time when psychiatrists considered that
calling a condition a disease: a predictable group of they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the
symptoms and the cause of the symptoms or an future, the mentally ill have to learn to live with
understanding of their physiology (function) must their illness.
be proven and established. Chills and fever are
symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. 4. THE THEORY THAT MENTAL DISORDERS DERIVE
Diseases are proven to exist by objective evidence FROM A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN
and physical tests. Yet, no mental diseases have THE BRAIN IS UNPROVEN OPINION, NOT FACT.
ever been medically proven to exist. One prevailing psychiatric theory (key to
psychotropic drug sales) is that mental disorders
2. PSYCHIATRISTS DEAL EXCLUSIVELY WITH result from a chemical imbalance in the brain.
MENTAL DISORDERS, NOT PROVEN DISEASES. As with its other theories, there is no biological
While mainstream physical medicine treats or other evidence to prove this. Representative
diseases, psychiatry can only deal with of a large group of medical and biochemistry
disorders. In the absence of a known cause or experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of
physiology, a group of symptoms seen in many Blaming the Brain says: [T]here are no tests
different patients is called a disorder or syndrome. available for assessing the chemical status of
Harvard Medical Schools Joseph Glenmullen, a living persons brain.
M.D., says that in psychiatry, all of its diagnoses
are merely syndromes [or disorders], clusters of 5. THE BRAIN IS NOT THE REAL CAUSE
symptoms presumed to be related, not diseases. OF LIFES PROBLEMS. People do experience problems
As Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles,
emeritus, observes, There is no blood or other bio- sometimes very serious. But to represent that these
logical test to ascertain the presence or absence of a troubles are caused by incurable brain diseases
mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. that can only be alleviated with dangerous pills is
dishonest, harmful and often deadly. Such drugs are
3. PSYCHIATRY HAS NEVER ESTABLISHED THE often more potent than a narcotic and capable of
CAUSE OF ANY MENTAL DISORDERS. Leading driving one to violence or suicide. They mask the
psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric real cause of problems in life and debilitate the
Association and the U.S. National Institute of individual, so denying him or her the opportunity
Mental Health admit that psychiatrists do not for real recovery and hope for the future.
I M P O R TA N T F A C T S
Ab o u t Ps y ch i a t r y
34
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T
he psychiatric profession purports to be know the causes or cures for any mental disorder
the sole arbiter on the subject of mental or what their treatments specifically do to the THE REAL CRISISIn Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGINGPsychiatry Destroying Lives
health and diseases of the mind. The patient. They have only theories and conflicting Report and recommendations on the lack of science and Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric
facts, however, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and results within the mental health industry diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth
are lacking any scientific basis for these. As a past M A S S I V E F R A UD P s y c h i a t r y s C o r r u p t I n d u s t r y HARMING YOUTHPsychiatry Destroys Young Minds
1. PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ARE NOT MEDICAL president of the World Psychiatric Association Report and recommendations on a criminal mental Report and recommendations on harmful mental health
DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for stated, The time when psychiatrists considered health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
calling a condition a disease: a predictable group that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In
of symptoms and the cause of the symptoms or the future, the mentally ill have to learn to live PSYCHIATRIC HOAXThe Subversion of Medicine COMMUNITY RUINPsychiatrys Coercive Care
Report and recommendations on psychiatrys destructive Report and recommendations on the failure of community
an understanding of their physiology (function) with their illness. impact on health care mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs
must be proven and established. Chills and fever
are symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. 4. THE THEORY THAT MENTAL DISORDERS PSEUDOSCIENCEPsychiatrys False Diagnoses HARMING ARTISTSPsychiatry Ruins Creativity
Diseases are proven to exist by objective evidence DERIVE FROM A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN Report and recommendations on the unscientific fraud Report and recommendations on psychiatry assaulting the arts
and physical tests. Yet, no mental diseases have THE BRAIN IS UNPROVEN OPINION, NOT FACT.
perpetrated by psychiatry UNHOLY ASSAULTPsychiatry versus Religion
ever been proven to medically exist. One prevailing psychiatric theory (key to SCHIZOPHRENIAPsychiatrys For Profit Disease Report and recommendations on psychiatrys subversion of
psychotropic drug sales) is that mental disorders Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and religious belief and practice
2. PSYCHIATRISTS DEAL EXCLUSIVELY WITH result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. false diagnosis
ERODING JUSTICEPsychiatrys Corruption of Law
MENTAL DISORDERS, NOT PROVEN DISEASES. As with its other theories, there is no biological THE BRUTAL REALITYHarmful Psychiatric Treatments Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting the
While mainstream physical medicine treats or other evidence to prove this. Representative Report and recommendations on the destructive practices of courts and corrective services
diseases, psychiatry can only deal with of a large group of medical and biochemistry electroshock and psychosurgery
disorders. In the absence of a known cause or experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of ELDERLY ABUSECruel Mental Health Programs
PSYCHIATRIC RAPEAssaulting Women and Children
physiology, a group of symptoms seen in many Blaming the Brain says: [T]here are no tests Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing seniors
Report and recommendations on widespread sex crimes
different patients is called a disorder or syndrome. available for assessing the chemical status of against patients within the mental health system
Harvard Medical Schools Joseph Glenmullen, a living persons brain. CHAOS & TERRORManufactured by Psychiatry
M.D., says that in psychiatry, all of its diagnoses DEADLY RESTRAINTSPsychiatrys Therapeutic Assault Report and recommendations on the role of psychiatry
Report and recommendations on the violent and dangerous in international terrorism
are merely syndromes [or disorders], clusters of 5. THE BRAIN IS NOT THE REAL CAUSE
use of restraints in mental health facilities
symptoms presumed to be related, not diseases. OF LIFES PROBLEMS. People do experience CREATING RACISMPsychiatrys Betrayal
As Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry problems and upsets in life that may result in PSYCHIATRYHooking Your World on Drugs Report and recommendations on psychiatry causing racial
emeritus, observes, There is no blood or other mental troubles, sometimes very serious. But Report and recommendations on psychiatry creating todays conflict and genocide
biological test to ascertain the presence or to represent that these troubles are caused by drug crisis
absence of a mental illness, as there is for most incurable brain diseases that can only be CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
REHAB FRAUDPsychiatrys Drug Scam
bodily diseases. alleviated with dangerous pills is dishonest, The International Mental Health Watchdog
Report and recommendations on methadone and other
harmful and often deadly. Such drugs are disastrous psychiatric drug rehabilitation programs
3. PSYCHIATRY HAS NEVER ESTABLISHED THE often more potent than a narcotic and capable
CAUSE OF ANY MENTAL DISORDERS. Leading of driving one to violence or suicide. They mask WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the
psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric the real cause of problems in life and debilitate
advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric, medical doctor.
Association and the U.S. National Institute of the individual, so denying him or her the oppor-
Mental Health admit that psychiatrists do not tunity for real recovery and hope for the future.
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We should honor
CCHR because it is really
the organization that for
the first time in human history
has organized a politically,
socially, internationally significant
voice to combat psychiatry.
This has never happened in
human history before.
Thomas Szasz M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
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