Group protests the American Psychiatric Association meeting during May’s Mental Health Month, calling for legislation to define forced treatment as torture and to ban electroshock treatment ...

“Without a commitment to end all coercive psychiatric practices, including forced hospitalization, drugging and electroshock treatment, there cannot be cutting-edge solutions because psychiatrists ...

“In response to the pervasive sexual abuse and assault within psychiatric facilities, CCHR condemns the mental health industry for endangering children and profiting from it. CCHR demands ...

State governments are responding to concerning reports of restraint abuse and deaths in psychiatric and behavioral facilities—a measure the mental health industry watchdog, Citizens Commission on ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International wants an overhaul of fraudulent practices in behavioral hospitals that put mental health patients at risk. It has launched a campaign asking for ...

SOURCE: IQVia Total Patient Tracker Database for 2017, extracted April 2018.

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 ...

When you are going mad, you first notice new, shocking things about the world; you had not previously realized that the pigeon on the windowsill is always the same pigeon, nor that the rhythm of its ...

The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...