Iconic professor of psychiatry and CCHR’s co-founder Dr Thomas Szasz’s work is recognised across the world…
Psychiatrist Patrick McGorry’s Orygen youth mental health research organisation has been given…
CCHR, concerned that children face motor skill failure, psychosis, suicide,…
A study published in the July 2020 edition of the Australian & New…
Rev. Fred Shaw, a CCHR spokesman in the US, warns parents to be…
Mental health screening and surveillance of apps, social media and phones are being…
Health Minister Greg Hunt has asked his department to review the…
The misuse of prescription amphetamine or ‘dexies’ is common among WA teens, according to…
Most people get their medical information from the Internet. And that unnerving…
The national dementia support service has warned the use of chemical and…
Nepotism, defamation claims and millions of taxpayer dollars spent on "indefensible" legal proceedings…
The use of antipsychotics in elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease might raise…
The United Nations has found New Zealand breached the Convention against Torture by failing…
South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up…
Patients are still being prescribed hundreds of Xanax tablets a year…
According to the Australian Bureau of statistics, the single biggest drug type implicated…
It was nothing like the child sex abuse…
A young Aboriginal woman received two rounds of electroconvulsive therapy at…
Many people who have taken psychiatric drugs have found that the withdrawal effects of these drugs can persist for months,…
Madam, – When psychiatrists speak or write on the subject of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),…
This powerful film explores the science behind antidepressants, their effects on the brain and…
A doctor who assessed a resident at an aged care facility in Sydney's west…
Australia’s Productivity Commission is currently doing an investigation into spending on mental health including how effective the money spent on…
Take Action to Stop Psychiatric Abuse The Royal Commission has been given the task to inquire into and report on how…
Should Asia follow Australia’s actions? On 21st to 24th Feb 2019, Sydney is hosting the 7th World Congress of Asian Psychiatry…
New figures have revealed a worrying trend among Aussie children, which leaves them exposed…
The terror experienced by those forcibly restrained in a psychiatric ward can have a deep and lasting impact on an…
ABC News, 1 Nov 2018 Orders forcing two Victorian patients with schizophrenia to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were…
Electroshock Still Legal for Use on NSW Children with Exhibit Amping Up Public Awareness Campaign On Thursday 13th September a chillingly…
Are Psychiatric Drugs, Documented to Cause Violence behind the Shooting of Six Members…
In a desperate attempt to treat a crippling mental illness, Gerard Helliar…
Mental health units and emergency departments across New South Wales will have…
Dozens of mentally unwell children in WA are still being put in…
A NSW father says he wants to warn parents about the dangers of…
Melbourne woman Jessica* is still struggling to come to terms with the…
As the details of the horrific Flinders Street ramming attack have unfolded, it seems that “random” acts of violence are…
It was meant to be a place that kept her safe; a mental…
RHONDA Trivett was sitting on her bed watching a movie on October…
Whilst most people are under the impression that electroshock therapy (ECT) is banned in Australia because the mere idea of…
A BENDIGO woman challenging an order for forced electro-shock therapy has been robbed…
A total of 16,570 toddlers, children and teenagers under 17 were prescribed…
Citing decades of neglect in mental health care, a United Nations human rights…
A mother who watched as her 10-year-old son rocked in a corner of…
Almost 5000 WA children under 16 years old are being prescribed antidepressants,…
Due to skyrocketing numbers of children on antidepressants CCHR has released a documentary titled, Psychiatry Friend or Foe? The Untold…
Drug and device trial studies that are sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry…
Mental health experts are calling for an end to the use of seclusion rooms at WA…
The number of young West Australian children on ADHD medication has rebounded…
Strong drugs used to treat elderly patients with a common condition called delirium…
It stated "40-year-old Daniels has spent about fourteen of the…
As Chris Tanti of headspace states (Letters, June 26), stigma for those experiencing problems in…
Ritalin linked higher heart disease risk The controversial hyperactivity drug Ritalin has…
Australian doctors are being urged to scale back their…
A Sydney law firm has launched a class action…
The new Queensland Mental Health Act came into force on the 5th March 2017 after it had been under review…
A Newcastle researcher says the overuse of psycho-stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),…
More than 26,000 under the age of 16 are being prescribed…
There has been a dramatic increase in the psychiatric labelling and prescription of antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD drugs to Australian…
Mental health experts are calling for greater monitoring of the use of restraints, both…
Below are areas of grave concern in the current Victorian Mental Health Act that need to be changed to protect…
Forced drugging, restraints & seclusion of children without the need for parental consent is set to remain legal. Please Urgently Take…
Parental Consent Not Needed ELECTROSHOCK OF NSW CHILDREN: It is appalling that the current NSW Mental Health Act allows for children…
An Australian team of lawyers is preparing a compensation claim against antidepressant drugs. Click here to read the…
Thousands of prescriptions of a dangerous depression drug that may cause…
CCHR asks for parents to come forward about sons who may be suffering a serious, antipsychotic drug side effect: growth…
Mental health patients might no longer be shackled in emergency departments in South…
Forced drugging, restraint & seclusion of children without the need for any parental consent is set to remain legal. Please urgently…
The use of shock therapy to treat…
But headspace has failed me, and I know it has failed others. At my first…
The number of NSW preschoolers being prescribed antipsychotic drugs has…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is requiring Medicines Australia to strengthen its public reporting as a…
Leading mental health experts have called on the Prime…
The number of WA children on anti-psychotic medication has risen…
Electroshock (ECT) is the application of up to hundreds of volts of electricity sent searing through the brain to…
An ex-Queensland hospital psychiatrist, who was struck off in New Zealand for having…
A surge in the number of children aged six and under on ADHD medications…
Forced drugging, restraint & seclusion of children without the need for any parental consent remains legal. Please take action before 5pm…
The new NSW Mental Health Act was passed on 19th November 2014. While the ban on psychosurgery for all ages…
New figures have revealed the scale of how many Australian children are being given…
The NSW Mental Health Act has been under review and despite the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this year reporting that…
Hundreds of elderly, disabled and mentally ill Victorians are believed to…
The more psychiatric care an adult receives, the more likely they are to…
Children under the age of four are being prescribed antipsychotic drugs in…
There have been over 1,100 adverse reactions reported to Australia's drug regulatory agency for suicide, suicidal thoughts and behaviour and…
Illegal for mental illness in NSW and the NT, Victorian psychiatrists want to be able to cut into the brains…
A psychiatrist who abused the trust of four young women with eating disorders…
The state's volunteer watchdogs who investigate abuses of…
14 year olds can agree to electroshock and 16 year olds to psychosurgery, both without parental consent! The WA Mental Health…
Children will be able to agree to electroshock and psychosurgery without parental consent ! The Victorian Mental Health Act has been…
The controversial Victorian Mental Health Act is expected to go before Parliament this week with the torturous use of electroshock…
The Napthine government has called on hospitals and…
A new report is warning Aussie kids in psychiatric care are suffering…
Illegal for mental illness in NSW and the NT, Western Australian psychiatrists want to be able to barbarically cut 16…
With the call for the ban of physical restraint in young children this week by National Mental Health Commissioner, Ms…
A mental health commissioner is urging the Napthine government to…
14 year olds can agree to electroshock and 16 year olds to psychosurgery, both without parental consent! The WA Mental Health…
Controversial laws that will allow teenagers to consent to electro-shock therapy and…
A nine-year-old boy has killed himself and two other…
In June 2012, Australia was before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) regarding the…
The ACT government spent almost $100,000 on three…
The Queensland Mental Health Act is under review and public feedback is being called for on the current law. A…
Screaming toddlers could be classified as having a mental illness and…
Shocking new statistics have exposed a dark truth about the experiences of women in psychiatric care. A…
Catherine Jones' experience of seclusion as a mental health inpatient suggests the practice is far…
Children with mental illness are more likely to be held…
This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees…
The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM) is an ever-growing manual used to diagnosis mental illness. It began with three entries…
A proposed revision to the pharmaceutical industry's code of conduct requires pharma companies to reveal total payments to doctors, but…
A family want to know why their son was able to take his life within hours of arriving at Graylands…
A leading expert in law for the elderly says some health professionals could face legal action and even prison, following…
AN ADHD drug rejected for a government subsidy because of "uncertain safety" in adults is being subsidised for children and…
Obtaining statistics on psychiatric drug usage, especially by age group is now (July 2012) a lengthy and costly affair—upwards of…
If Australia's famous bushranger Ned Kelly was alive today, psychiatrists would most likely label him with "oppositional defiant disorder." In…
With over 15,000 Mental Health Prescriptions Written Every Day in Victoria, a State of the Art Exhibit Exposes the Truth…
The W.A. Mental Health Act is under review and the above are included in proposals of the draft bill. Please…
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Inaugural Symposium on Youth Mental Health to be held in…
Rife with Conflicts of Interest and Could Lead to More Children Being "Pre-Drugged" Please take action and provide feedback to federal…
The statistics are alarming - nearly 89,000 Australian children under 16 are on ADHD drugs, antidepressants and antipsychotics (4,429 aged…
An extremely concerning statement in the CPPs on ADHD indicates that Australia could now be following the US model where…
With a government ordered investigation in progress to address horrific conditions exposed in Victorian psychiatric hospitals, CCHR is calling for…
The exhibit addresses the following issues and more. Origins of Torture: The "Father of American Psychiatry" set the scene for the…
STATE-OF-THE-ART TOURING EXHIBIT TARGETS PSYCHIATRY AS AN "INDUSTRY OF DEATH" With public distrust of psychiatry mounting—and government agency warnings about psychiatric…
Children as young as two are increasingly being prescribed powerful stimulant drugs like Ritalin for "ADHD." 2,406 Australian children younger…
"Alarm as more kids on anti-depressants" Herald Sun, 30 May 2011, read the full article on the Herald Sun website. Download…
Chief Psychiatrist's Investigation a Red Herring A national mental health watchdog says that with $1 billion spent on Victoria's mental health…
FORMER Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry has aborted a controversial trial of antipsychotic drugs on children as young as…
Twenty drug companies are helping sponsor the 3rd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry held in Melbourne this week, as Asia…
Transparency and conflicts of interest in the May 2011 Mental Health in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescent Conference, Perth. The theme of…
Citizens Committee on Human Rights (CCHR) Australia have called for full accountability of government funding as calls for increased mental…
While "The Independent Mental Health Reform Group" called for an extra $3.5 billion to be spent on mental health in…
While the Mind and its Potential Conference being held in Sydney is discussing the "extraordinary capacity of the brain to…
With Australia's Toddlers and Children Already Exposed to Antipsychotic Drug Risks, How Informed are Parents? Download this article as a PDF There…
Psychiatrists Admit They Created the Euthanasia Program and Ideology That Fueled Hitler's Holocaust It is cold, hard documented fact that German…
CCHR Calls for Australian Draft ADHD Guidelines to be Scrapped: Landmark Study Shows ADHD drugs can Permanently Increase Blood Pressure The release…
Mental Health Group Wants Funding Directed to Non-invasive Methods and Parents Informed of Alternatives Mental Health watchdog the Citizens Committee on…
While British experts condemn "Psychosis Risk" labelling of youths as dangerous Mental Health watchdog Citizens Committee on Human Rights called for…
Imagine being a parent taking your 10-year-old daughter to the doctor where she gasps for air and suddenly dies in…
The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? recognised for "social responsibility." The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) documentary, The…
CCHR obtained Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) regarding antipsychotics from the Therapeutic Goods Administration that shows of the 477 deaths linked…
Latest TGA Reports Reveal 18 Youth Suicides and Attempted Suicides The first long-term study of antidepressants causing suicide in youths confirms…
Documentary Exposes the Truth about the Psychotropic Drugs. The new federal ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) guidelines warning doctors not to…
Call for Full Disclosure of Australian Committee Members Vested Interests. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Draft ADHD Guidelines have been…
