This entirely self-guided tour includes documentaries and displays of psychiatry’s most harmful treatment devices. It is the definitive resource on historical and contemporary psychiatric theories and practices.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, has held over 100 events and toured more than 3,000 people through the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death museum as part of an ongoing effort to educate Floridians on their rights under the mental health law and are inviting all to view the museum at their headquarters in downtown Clearwater from 10 am to 10 pm daily.
CLEARWATER, FL, June 27, 2016 –Since opening the new headquarters for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida in July of last year, there have been more than 3,000 tours of the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death museum, which presents the unvarnished history of psychiatry while also providing information on the state of psychiatry today.
Tours of the museum have been given to everyone from a mother who wanted to know how to protect her children from involuntary commitment to psychiatric nursing students brought by their professors to learn the truth about psychiatry.
The headquarters has also hosted or participated in over 100 events designed to educate individuals on their rights under the mental health law of Florida commonly referred to as the Baker Act.
“Our goal is to ensure that Floridians know their rights under this law, especially parents since minors may legally be sent for involuntary examination without parental knowledge or consent” said Diane Stein, President of CCHR Florida. “The museum tours and events help us to accomplish this goal faster and more effectively.”
In 2014, there were a total of 181,471 involuntary examinations initiated which was an almost 82% increase from 2002 to 2014 and 17% (30,850) of the total involuntary examinations were on children and unfortunately the majority of parents in the state are not aware of this risk.
Working to educate as many families has possible, CCHR has mailed 84,000 postcards to families in Florida directing them to a website where they can learn more about the law and download a legal form to help protect their children from unnecessary involuntary examination.
“We want to see a reduction of the number of involuntary examinations of minors in 2016 and hope to be able to restore the rights of parents under this law during next year’s legislative session,” said Stein.
The museum is open daily from 10am until 10pm and events are held weekly and monthly. Both are open and free to the general public.
About Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
CCHR is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog. Initially established by the Church of Scientology and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz in 1969, CCHR’s mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections. CCHR has helped to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive mental health practices.
It was L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, who brought the terror of psychiatric imprisonment to the notice of the world. In March 1969, he said, “Thousands and thousands are seized without process of law, every week, over the ‘free world’ tortured, castrated, killed. All in the name of ‘mental health.’”
CCHR Florida has already proven a major player in the state’s fight against psychiatric abuse. After discovering that 55 percent of foster children in Florida had been prescribed powerful mind-altering psychotropic drugs, the commission documented the abuse to the health department which initiated changes that led to a 75 percent reduction in prescriptions for children under six.
Additionally, working with the Florida legislature, CCHR Florida helped enact a law which prohibits public schools’ involvement in the psychiatric drugging of children.
Considered a potentially abusive, marketing tool for psychiatrists, CCHR Florida led the charge that got “Teen Screen”, mental health screening of school children, banned from Pinellas County schools in 2005.
I am trying to get my husband help. He was taken into protective custody while he was in heart failure because of a pericardial effusion, the third since his open heart surgery on 3/25/ of this year. He was taken to a facility that refused to take him after I asked if they were able to handle his heart issues. So they sent him to en ER got medical clearance And that ER sent him to the hospital his surgeon is at.
He was put on so many medications since January, medications that l now am finding out should not be prescribed together ever.
The doctor said he thinks his heart complications are from those medications. he stopped 99% of them on Monday operated on him again on Tuesday, Wednesday my husband was very alert and felt good.
Now he is in a daze again and very shaky and confused. Yet they are saying he will be medically cleared and they are insisting he must go to the mental health hospital from this hospital.
The dr that is medically clearing him has cleared him 4 times now. Hes had to go back for this 3 times now and each time it’s gotten worse.
I do not think he will live through that mental health evaluation on these medications.
I am trying to find out if I can an transfer him to a different hospital for an evaluation on these medications to see if this his what has caused these issues. Thank you
I am so very sorry to hear about your husband and this situation. Someone from our organization will contact you.
My name is brian, I’m scheduled for ECT therapy in 3or4week’s, i’m 49.year’s of age and have battled ADHD,bipolar 1,and2,my entire life,between the medication rollercoaster and therapies, i’m left with no other options, my story of this disease and my journey in life with it,would be a beacon of lite to those that are struggling with it,and society that cannot except aberrant behavior, or any kind adjustments to different mentally challenged individuals. Before I’m pressured into this last demand of (therapy) I want any and all information on this ETC, session, I don’t really know how to go about it,because i’m not to good with pc’s or tablets, nor phone’s. The fear of this has pushed me to write this for the desperation, that there will be nothing left of my, memory, or brain.
Thank you for reading this,and I hope that my questions can be answered.
Brian.
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Every state, every county, every city should have a museum such as this! The mental health of humankind is the single most influential factor in social, cultural, spiritual and economic evolution. Yet, it has been the subject of exploitation and/or malicious neglect, further separating us from our potential of becoming a compassionate and humane global community. I am sickened to learn of the involuntary mental health screening without parental consent, among other barbaric mandates which place the welfare of our most vulnerable population in the lap of bureaucracy. My 19 yr old daughter, a sophomore in college, with so many beautiful attributes to yet share with the world, is in a psychiatric facility for THC induced psychosis. it has been over a week and I am told nothing. Nothing about her condition, treatment, progress and most concerning- her medication, It was 2am,, but, I should have known to be vigilant about the Release of Information paperwork. My rights as her parent are being aggressively blocked, and my daughter is left alone in a psychotic state to authorize the medication. Homeopathic medicine is not offered at this facility, which is our philosophy for healing. Thank you for the opportunity to share my response.
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