From electroshock bans to exposing psychiatric torture, CCHR’s actions since 1969 have helped shape mental health law globally and hold psychiatry and psychology accountable—despite industry ...

CCHR urges urgent reforms to ensure families are fully informed about life-threatening side effects of ADHD psychotropics and ...

CCHR says fast-tracking psychedelics for veterans repeats decades of unethical psychiatric experiments, ignores root causes of trauma and suicide, and risks turning vets into test subjects for a ...

Public awareness about the risks faced by children in so-called “troubled teen” facilities—including wilderness “therapy” camps—has grown in recent years, leading to necessary closures, according to ...

CCHR demands a ban on chemical restraints in U.S. nursing homes and accountability for prescribers, facilities and pharmaceutical companies alike.

CCHR leads protest against American Psychiatric Association, citing billions of dollars wasted on coercive practices—deadly restraints killing children, forced treatment—and a system that harms ...

Despite record-high spending, mental health outcomes decline—experts say the fault lies with a flawed diagnostic system as psychiatric diagnoses lack validity.

• The Call to End a Manufactured Epidemic: With mounting evidence increases in children being labeled with ADHD, without any scientific test to substantiate the diagnosis, a federal investigation ...

CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.

Dr. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric ...

After more than 50 years of investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) can say with certainty that the psychiatric/mental health ...