Category: Psychiatry and Psychology

Two human rights champions featured on the Scientology Network original series "Voices for Humanity" educate families and lawyers on how to prevent the involuntary commitment and warehousing of children and the elderly in Florida institutions


Citizens Commission on Human Rights brought its traveling exhibit to the Santa Clara County Fair to help local residents make sense out of recent events.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights traveling exhibit documents the history of psychiatry and exposes psychiatric fatalities, abuse and fraud. From Santa Monica, California, to Bogotá, Colombia, and from Tokyo to Times Square, thousands learn the truth behind what the group calls psychiatry's false facade.

'Psychiatry continues to repeat the same crimes - from forced sterilization to fraudulent diagnosis of developmental disorders,' says Citizens Commission on Human Rights. 'History repeats itself.'

At the Albuquerque Mental Health Awareness Month Event, Citizens Commission on Human Rights New Mexico shines the harsh light of truth on dangerous mental practices.

Anyone with a friend or loved one in the military is urged to watch a documentary that sheds light on the reason more soldiers and veterans are dying of suicide than in combat. Watch The Hidden Enemy: Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda on the Scientology TV Network.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) picketed the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in New York City to demand psychiatrists cease using electroshock — especially on children.

Italian human rights group calls for an end to coercive psychiatry and to the use of physical or chemical restraints, particularly on children.

Prescriptions for children to consume highly addictive and dangerous cocaine-like stimulants are "massively too high," says Swiss MP.

Humanitarian mental health watchdog protests psychiatric abuse

Austrian psychiatrists complicit in the atrocities perpetrated by their Nazi German colleagues.

Every 12 minutes, an American commits suicide. Citizens Commission on Human Rights explores the cause of this grim statistic.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights and the Church of Scientology Nashville invited community leaders to a meeting to bring about positive change by exploring the roots of American racism.

Mental Health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibit in Washington, D.C., tells the untold story of the mental health industry.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights Traveling Exhibit opened in Burbank, California, focusing on the harm caused by the psychiatric drugging of veterans and children.

On the day set aside to honor our veterans, 23 will die by their own hand, but the cause of this 'epidemic' is ignored

An international contingent of Citizens Commission on Human Rights members marched through the streets of Berlin bearing signs stating "Psychiatry Kills" and demanding an end to the wholesale drugging of children and other forms of psychiatric abuse.

Psychiatric watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights brings exhibit to Old Sacramento to alert parents and other concerned citizens to the deadly ramifications for children of consumption of psychiatric drugs for ADHD and anxiety.

United Nations calls psychiatry out on their violation of human rights

The public must be informed of the effects of mental health drugs, say experts speaking at the opening of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights traveling exhibition.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights brought its traveling exhibit to New York to inform and educate those attending the American Bar Association Annual Meeting on what the organization called "the need for the legal community to champion the rights of children and families and protect them from dangerous psychiatric drugs."

A UK human rights group is incensed over psychiatrists labeling normal childhood behavior as psychiatric disorders.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights protests psychiatric brutality and crime at a protest march and rally June 10 in Paris.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights says more than 32,000 Florida children and teens were sent for involuntary psychiatric examination last year — with or without parental consent

At the American Psychiatric Association in San Diego, California, human rights group demands an end to ECT (electroconvulsive treatment) and a nationwide ban against using the so-called treatment on children.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights is bringing the unvarnished truth about psychiatry to the people of Russia

Citizens Commission on Human Rights marches to raise awareness of psychiatry's labeling and 'treating' Swedish children with dangerous, mind-altering psychiatric drugs

Citizens Commission on Human Rights demands an end to psychiatric abuse.

Conference on the Holocaust hosted by the Brussels Branch of Churches of Scientology for Europe

International psychiatric watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an American civil rights leader and South African Khoisan royalty join forces at Cape Town rally to demand the World Psychiatric Association put an end to the potentially lethal drugging of South African children.

With 8.4 million children prescribed psychiatric drugs in the U.S. alone, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Florida is calling on the FDA to investigate drugging for so-called ADHD

Mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights and the Church of Scientology Nashville organized a World Mental Health Day "lunch and learn"

With child drugging on the rise and the FDA's failure to enforce their own regulations on clinical trials, a new exhibit opens amid controversy in Seattle.

The public must be informed of the effects of mental health drugs, say experts speaking at the exhibition's opening

CCHR is launching a campaign to help protect the elderly from abuse under the mental health law in Florida. It begins with a workshop titled Advanced Mental Health Directives on Sunday, August 21, at the group's center in downtown Clearwater.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) demands an investigation into link between antidepressants and teen suicides.

Regional conference of Italian chapters of psychiatric watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights meets at the Church of Scientology of Milan. Members learn how to deal with victims of involuntary commitment.

Celebrating the 1st anniversary of the new Citizens Commission on Human Center in downtown Clearwater.

Thousands of Washington State babies age 0-1 are on psychiatric drugs, says Citizens Commission on Human Rights.

Closed-door conference organized by Citizens Commission on Human Rights St. Petersburg, Russia, reveals psychiatric fraud and flagrant violations of human rights.

As the nation celebrates the 25th anniversary of Desert Storm this Memorial Day, one veteran who served in that conflict speaks of the ruin psychiatric drugs have made of his life.

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibit in Atlanta gives voice to a man whose life was shattered by psychiatric abuse.

On the heels of Friday's news about Georgia psychiatrist Narendra Nagareddy and the death of his patients, Citizens Commission on Human Rights opens the Psychiatry An Industry of Death touring exhibit in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. The exhibit documents the pseudoscience and sordid history of psychiatry, showing that the crimes of Dr. Death, as Nagareddy is now being called, are not so unusual in the psychiatric industry.

At the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Atlanta, Georgia, diverse organizations including the Nation of Islam, NAACP, Black Lives Matter, 10,000 Fearless Men and Concerned Black Clergy joined CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights) in a demonstration to demand the ban of shock treatment on children.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a nonprofit mental health watchdog, wants to end abuse of children under the Florida Baker Act.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights St. Petersburg in Russia continues campaign to educate students, educators and medical professionals on the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs with a private screening of the documentary Dead Wrong: How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child.

Helping families protect their children