The psychiatrist and CCHR co-founder spent decades condemning involuntary commitment and forced treatment. United Nations ...

The Royal Commission’s report “exposed atrocities and horrors at Chelmsford and the applicants’ roles in perpetuating those atrocities and horrors on patients who, on any reasonable view, were the ...

The recent U.S. National Archives release of thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of a U.S. government review into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 has ...

Below is an overall timeline of events of what occurred leading up to, and after, Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo withstood a 10-hour standoff with police, an armed assault by a SWAT team and a tank ...

“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.

CCHR says the conflicted alliance of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry is rife in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), as confirmed in a new study that found $14.2 million in ...

A newly published report in the University of Baltimore Law Review reveals widespread abuse and negligence in the troubled teen industry, where thousands of adolescents suffer mistreatment in ...

November marks the 20 th anniversary of the Fight For Kids (FFK) campaign launched by the mental health industry watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)—the longest-running ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has passed its deadline to ban the electrical stimulation device (ESD), commonly known as the GED, used for behavior control on individuals with developmental ...

“Ireland’s ban on electroshock treatment for minors marks a significant step forward in protecting vulnerable young people from a damaging, torturous procedure. While this decision advances human ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...