As the U.S. considers policies to forcibly detain the homeless and others in psychiatric institutions, a new study shows ...

Human rights advocate addressed the World Federation for Mental Health Congress, urging global alignment with UN and WHO ...

Click here for CCHR’s Parents Rights page. Parents are not being given the facts about the documented risks of psychiatric drugs, the lack of medical evidence for the “mental disorders” for which the ...

CCHR says real mental health awareness must confront, not conceal, psychiatry’s coercion, child drugging, and electroshock ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...

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 ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

“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.

You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the world is the venom from a jellyfish known as the Sea Wasp, whose sting can kill a human being in four minutes—up to 100 humans at a time. Potassium ...

“There are many hazards with pre-emptive medical interventions, especially with such potent drugs as antipsychotics (which have been described as possibly the second most toxic chemicals used in ...