Despite years of investigations and billion-dollar fines, rampant abuse continues in youth behavioral-psychiatric hospitals. CCHR demands immediate federal and state action.

CCHR International, which was among the groups that first helped get electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) banned on minors in California nearly 50 years ago, hails the current decline in psychiatric use of ...

When psychiatric drugs and therapy don’t work, psychiatry rarely blames the treatment—it blames the patient. ‘Treatment-resistant’ is the label stamped on anyone who doesn’t respond to standard ...

The United States is spending more than ever on mental health—yet outcomes continue to worsen. Suicide rates are rising, psychiatric hospitalizations are increasing, and more Americans than ever are ...

“The New York Times report reinforces the urgent need for bold intervention, including harsher penalties for abusive hospitals, revoking their licenses to involuntarily commit, shutting down ...

“Without a commitment to end all coercive psychiatric practices, including forced hospitalization, drugging and electroshock treatment, there cannot be cutting-edge solutions because psychiatrists ...

Sexual assault in the inpatient psychiatric setting is a significant problem with serious, lasting consequences, according to research published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry. The data ...

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 ...

“Universal Health Services, similar for-profit psychiatric hospital chains, and the mental health practitioners who treat foster children profit from a $23 billion a year ‘child abuse’ industry.” – ...

“Forced treatment in psychiatry cannot be defended, neither on ethical, legal or scientific grounds. It has never been shown that forced treatment does more good than harm, and it is highly likely ...

In a series of articles being compiled as a report for policymakers at federal, state, and local levels, as well as for law enforcement agencies, CCHR International has documented psychiatry’s ...