Italy’s top court rules part of involuntary psychiatric law unconstitutional; CCHR urges U.S. to adopt legal protections as ...

Until the passage of state laws in the United States making it a criminal offense for psychiatrists and psychologists to have sexual relationships with or even rape their patients, mental health ...

Despite years of investigations and billion-dollar fines, rampant abuse continues in youth behavioral-psychiatric hospitals. CCHR demands immediate federal and state action.

With millions of people prescribed psychiatric drugs, clearly not everyone taking them (or in withdrawal) will experience violence, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation. However, according to ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

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 ...

All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles and goals of Citizens ...

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 ...

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

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) announces the second in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O’Meara exploring the epidemic ...

Fact: Despite 49 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings ...