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Long Island Child Therapist Faces 20 Years for Sharing Baby Rape Videos

A licensed therapist joins the ranks of the 10 percent of mental health professionals who sexually abuse those they pretend to help.

MENTAL HEALTH

“Chemically Castrated” After Antidepressants: The Permanent Damage of PSSD

Six years after doctors petitioned for Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction label warnings, the FDA has done nothing. Now, victims are speaking out—before more lives are destroyed.

MENTAL HEALTH

Coercive Psychiatric Drugging on America’s Streets Sparks Outcry From Human Rights Advocates

Coercive psychiatry shifts from institutional asylums to mobile clinics, extending control over vulnerable populations under the guise of “treatment.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Paul Durcan, Irish Poet Who Survived Psychiatric Abuse to Become a National Icon, Dies at 80

Psychiatry tried to crush his art with shock, drugs and fear. Instead, Paul Durcan built a legacy that defined Irish poetry for generations.

MENTAL HEALTH

Involuntary Commitment in NC Called “Abusive and Dehumanizing” in New Rights Report

Disability Rights NC urges an end to coercive psychiatric detentions after exposing widespread misuse in North Carolina.

MENTAL HEALTH

Researchers Discover Data Vacuum on Antidepressant Withdrawal Hell

Swiss study finds only seven flawed papers on Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome after antidepressants, while 46 percent of those withdrawing face symptoms they describe as “extremely severe.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Ohio Public Health Campaign Sounds Alarm on Akathisia & Psychiatric Drug Dangers

Psychiatric drug side effects like akathisia are too often dismissed—until it’s too late.

MENTAL HEALTH

Black Youth Disproportionately Killed by Violent Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.

MENTAL HEALTH

Abuse and Neglect Plague Arizona’s Mingus Mountain All-Girls Psychiatric Facility

Former patients describe horrific sexual abuse and violent restraints at Mingus Mountain. Lawmakers are demanding a full review to protect vulnerable teens.

MENTAL HEALTH

Executives Rewarded While Patients Died at Troubled Illinois Psychiatric Facility

Amid deaths, lawsuits and federal probes, Acadia executives secured seven-figure bonuses.

MENTAL HEALTH

Locked Up for Being Stalked: How the Psychiatric Apparatus Victimizes Women

A stalker on the roof, a beating at home—and psychiatry’s answer? Drug and lock her up.

MENTAL HEALTH

Michigan Psychiatric Hospital Collapses Along with the System That Enabled It

Pontiac General lost federal funding after a damning record of abuse and neglect. Now it seeks accreditation while housing just four patients.

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Exposing the Enslavement of Blacks in South Africa

Freedom had unearthed a network of privately owned, profit-making institutions that held nearly 11,500 black inmates—and was subsidized by the apartheid government.

MENTAL HEALTH

Poisoned Justice

The story of the innocent man who spent decades behind bars for “the most ghastly crime in Florida history.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Blunder in the Brain

Every time Kellie Ellison gets her hair done she braces for the moment when hairdressers discover a big bulge on the right side of her head. As they feel the spot, “I tell them that it’s a horn,” jokes Ellison, who lives in the town of Warrior, Alabama. “It scares them to death.”