Psychiatry is a paradise for the drug industry, as definitions of psychiatric disorders are vague and easy to manipulate. My studies in this … Continue Reading
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Psychiatric Child Abuse- Psychiatric Drugs - Warnings, Studies & Side Effects
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ADHD and Food Allergies
Food allergies may be the underlying, and undetected, cause for a child's behavior problems. See for yourself the dramatic effect a food … Continue Reading
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April 16 -”The Hidden Enemy” to be screened at Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival
CCHR's latest documentary, "The Hidden Enemy: Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda", will be screened at the 2014 Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival on April 16, 2014. Rethinking Psychiatry hosts the annual film … Continue Reading
Ten myths about psychotropic drugs
By Peter Gøtzsche, MD; Co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration. At the Nordic Cochrane Centre, we have researched antidepressants for several years and I have long wondered why leading professors of psychiatry … Continue Reading
ADHD is not a disease
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. CCHR Co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus … Continue Reading
Five Big Lies About ECT (Electroshock)
ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) involves the application of two electrodes to the head to pass electricity through the brain with the goal of causing an intense seizure or convulsion. The process always damages the … Continue Reading
ADHD Drugs Don’t Boost Kids’ Grades
Studies of Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Find Little Change The Wall Street Journal By SHIRLEY S. WANG It's no longer shocking to hear of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity … Continue Reading