Monday, January 05, 2004

"Crime, Fraud, Patient Abuse: Welcome to the World of Psychiatry"
Press release from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights at US Newswire - "A controversial exhibit on psychiatry, recently featured in the Chicago Tribune, will be open to the public in downtown Chicago as part of a world tour that has included stops in Rome, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, and the Federal legislature in Mexico City among the 33 cities and six countries where it has been displayed. In the United States it has been featured at the state Capitols of Georgia, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and a federal building in New York City. The organizers of the exhibit, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog, say that the psychiatric abuses portrayed throughout the exhibit though graphic, are a documented portrayal of the rampant abuses committed daily under the guise of mental health -- and effecting some of our most defenseless citizens -- particularly children, the elderly and the mentally or emotionally vulnerable." See also the Citizens Commission on Human Rights web site.