TAG / COERCIVE PSYCHIATRY
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CORRUPTION
At KidsPeace, No Peace for Kids: Abuse Allegations Mount at Pennsylvania Youth Psychiatric Center
Three former residents say they were assaulted as children and silenced by fear. Now, the psychiatric facility is using legal tactics to dodge accountability.
CORRUPTION
“It’s Like Jail”: Colorado Youth Describe Abusive Life Inside Psychiatric Center
A state-licensed youth psychiatric facility is under fire after a three-year study found repeated abuses, high restraint rates and a string of broken promises to reform.
HUMAN RIGHTS
CCHR Brings Global Case Against Coercive Psychiatry to UN Rights Committee in Geneva
From electroshock of five-year-olds to deaths in US for-profit hospitals, CCHR told the UN that psychiatry’s coercive practices amount to torture and must be banned worldwide.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Italy’s Constitutional Court Ends Unlawful Forced Psychiatric Detention
In a major human rights victory, Italy bans involuntary psychiatric detention without due process. The ruling challenges coercive mental health practices worldwide.
