Thurs. 12/06/21 17:01 EDT
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[url=Thomas Szasz on Psychiatry - #25 by DrunknMunky]
I used to respect Ron Paul a lot but it’s been waning ever since I found out he belongs to the US Congress.
What do you have against the CCHR, anyway?
Accomplishments (a sampler):[list][]In the early 1970s, CCHR’s investigations led to government inquiries into numerous state psychiatric facilities in California, Illinois, Hawaii, Michigan and Missouri - resulting in hospital administrators and psychiatrists being dismissed, criminal and grand jury investigations being held, and closure of major psychiatric units due to the abuses CCHR had uncovered against patients.
[]In 1976, due to CCHR’s efforts, the first law to protect patients against enforced electroshock and psychosurgery was passed in California, providing informed consent and banning their use on children under the age of 12.
[]In the 1990s, CCHR helped uncover and expose that up to 150 restraint deaths occur each year in the U.S. alone, with nearly 10% of these being children, some as young as six.
[]In the 1980s/early 1990s, CCHR spearheaded a campaign to expose and ban Deep Sleep Treatment (DST) at Chelmsford Private Psychiatric Hospital in Sydney, Australia. The “treatment” involved knocking the patient unconscious for three weeks with a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and electroshocking them daily, without their consent. It killed 48 people.
[]CCHR photographed and then exposed secret psychiatric “slave labor” camps in South Africa where tens of thousands of Africans were incarcerated in the 1970s and 80s against their will in disused mining compounds, drugged and subjected to painful electroshock without anesthetics.
[]CCHR in Germany conducted comprehensive research that established conclusively that Germany’s leading psychiatrists provided the theory as well as the “scientific” justification for the Nazi government to destroy “life unworthy of living.” … In 1995 CCHR published the acclaimed book Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler (see also MeTZelf).
[]Along with officials and members of the Italian parliament, CCHR Italy inspected and investigated concentration-camp-like conditions in the country’s psychiatric asylums.
[]CCHR’s investigations led to a major private psychiatric hospital chain in the U.S. being investigated by 14 federal and state investigations for fraud and patient abuse.[/list]
What’s wrong with that? What other organization is doing these things? Which Christian, Jewish, or Muslim organizations are funding the fight against coercive psychiatry?
Here is Szasz:
Fine, but what does this have to do with Szasz? Szasz isn’t a Scientologist.