TAG / ECT
RESULTS
MENTAL HEALTH
Ireland’s Forgotten Patients Demand Action After New Investigations Into 1950s Asylum Abuse
More than 20,000 people were housed at the peak of Ireland’s asylum era; survivors say the legacy of psychiatric trauma lives on—and it’s time for the government to act.
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.
MENTAL HEALTH
Major International Survey Finds Electroshock Ruins Lives—and Psychiatrists Don’t Warn Patients
A global survey spanning 44 countries shows nearly 60 percent of electroshock patients weren’t warned of the dangers, and the majority report life got worse.
MENTAL HEALTH
British Study Shows Devastating Effects of ECT—and Psychiatric Efforts to Hide Them
Documented effects include massive permanent memory loss and personality change—effects the psychiatric industry is determined to cover up.
MENTAL HEALTH
ECT Leads to Cardiac Deaths According to New Study
Psychiatry still uses dangerous electroconvulsive “therapy” despite the risks and often without informed consent. Even worse, guidelines do not require cardiac consultations before shocking patients.
MENTAL HEALTH
Harold Sackeim’s Conflicts of Interest at the Heart of Dangerous Industry of Electroshock
A web of connections between Sackeim, manufacturers and a government official creates a profit center out of the human misery of electroshock.
MENTAL HEALTH
“Imagine” a World Without Psychiatry—But With Better Mental Health
The truth about psychiatry is shocking: It’s created an industry of “treatments” that do far more harm than good in addressing “diseases” that don’t exist.
CORRUPTION
Conflicts of Interest: The Unholy Axis of Money, the FDA’s Jeffrey Shuren and the Medical Device Industry
Regulator husband and lawyer wife formed an unholy alliance in foisting questionable medical devices on the American people.
MENTAL HEALTH
California Supreme Court Says “No Electroshock without Informed Consent” in Major Patient Victory
When it comes to the dangers of electroconvulsive therapy, patients have been left largely unprotected by government regulations—until now.
MENTAL HEALTH
House Appropriations Committee Eliminates Torture Loophole—Halts Electrocution for “Behavior Control”
Everyone, it appears, agrees that the use of violent electric shocks isn’t therapy but torture. Everyone, that is, except the torturers.
