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 ...

CCHR says giving electroshock to minors causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws.

Italy’s top court rules part of involuntary psychiatric law unconstitutional; CCHR urges U.S. to adopt legal protections as WHO, UN, and global courts move to eliminate coercive mental health ...

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

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 ...

World Health Organization’s Latest Guidance on Mental Health Further Condemns Coercive Psychiatry. CCHR Demands U.S. and Global Psychiatry to Eliminate Forced Detainment and Treatment By Jan ...

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients’ rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury. By Jan ...

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

The latest UN human rights report urges an end to forced psychiatric treatment as U.S. mental health hospitals face allegations of coercion, fraud, and sexual abuse By Jan Eastgate President CCHR ...