Amid reports of psychiatric hospital abuse, CCHR supports global and U.S. efforts to protect human rights and demand ...

Consumers must be informed that a percentage of those taking psychotropic drugs may experience violent, even homicidal, and ...

Recent legislation improving oversight of youth behavioral facilities offers national hope, but CCHR warns that psychiatric ...

“CCHR supports a call for a stronger warning label on stimulants causing psychosis, but given its own documented findings that the drugs are also linked to acts of senseless violence, including school ...

A new study has determined that as many as 1 in 15 people who receive electroshock treatment face life-threatening heart problems and that cardiac events are a major cause of ECT-related deaths. John ...

In an effort to summarize attempts by law enforcement to identify the reason(s) behind James Holmes killing 12 innocent people and injuring 58 others in an Aurora, Colo., movie theatre, one writer ...

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of the brain damage, long-term memory loss, and… ...

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of the brain damage, long-term memory loss, and… ...

According to reports by Human Rights Watch and others, in China, psychiatric abuse is shockingly common against dissidents, who are jailed and silenced under the guise of psychiatric treatment. In one ...

When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...