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
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How to Sell Fairy Tales as Science
What do Munchkin Land and the DSM-5 have in common? A lot, as you will see. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the American Psychiatric Association’s latest attempt to legitimize itself. At first glance it is most imposing. Each of its 567 mental disorders carries its own code, symptoms and diagnoses […]
Robin Williams – Another Comedy of Errors
When he committed suicide on August 11, 2014 comedy icon Robin Williams joined a long list of artists who suffered tragically at the hands of psychiatrists. On the surface, Williams’ death seemed straightforward. According to USA Today’s website, the Marin County coroner’s report ruled his death as a “suicide by hanging, with no evidence of […]
Drugging our Children: Side Effects
20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals. CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online […]
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 base their practice on a number of erroneous myths. These myths are harmful to patients. Many psychiatrists are well aware that the myths do […]
Psychiatry, the drug industry’s paradise
Psychiatry is a paradise for the drug industry, as definitions of psychiatric disorders are vague and easy to manipulate. My studies in this area lead me to a very uncomfortable conclusion: Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. […]