CCHR Exposes Two-Thirds of Electroshock Therapy Victims Are Women
Group says actress Whoopi Goldberg recently revealed her mother was given electroshock resulting in the memory loss of her children, highlighting that women have been…
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Watchdog Blasts Ongoing Psychiatric Racism
CCHR and its Task Force Against Racism, headed by NAACP chapter president, Rev. Fred Shaw, lash out against coercive psychiatric practices that African Americans are…
CCHR Says Mental Health Awareness Month Should Support a Ban on Electroshock
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…
CCHR Rebukes Psychiatric Association Meeting for Failure to Denounce Coercion
In the wake of the World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association and European Psychiatric Congress condemning coercive psych practices, a mental health watchdog asks why…
CCHR Condemns Mental Health Industry Putting Children at Risk of Sexual Assault
Up to 45% of mental health inpatients have experienced sexual violence, with one hospital saying its rate of patient sexual assault was within the “industry…