The SA Mental Health Act is under review. Now is the time to stop these psychiatric human rights abuses…
The WA Mental Health Act is under review. Now is the time to change this. The WA Mental Health Act allows…
Australia already has 2,522 children aged 0-4 on a…
The Victorian law that allows psychiatrists to electroshock, restrain, seclude and forcibly drug children is under review. These torturous practices…
With the World Health Organization’s 10 June 2021 guidelines, comes a damning indictment of Psychiatry’s “coercive practices” including the administering…
A WA Member of Parliament has called for stronger consumer…
Australia’s drug regulatory agency has issued a warning for the antidepressant sertraline…
300 NZ children were tortured with electroshock at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital between 1972…
The electroshock of children and adolescents at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital…
With the World Health Organization’s 10 June 2021 guidelines, comes a damning indictment of Psychiatry’s “coercive practices” including the administering…
Psychiatric abuse is rife in Australia, but psychiatrists like Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie are trying to silence their…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released guidelines that lash out against coercive psychiatric practices including the use of restraint,…
An Australian review led by Deakin University warned that there were adverse outcomes for…
West Australians are in the dark on the prevalence of amphetamines being prescribed by…
The night before Isaac…
Two days after Peter Nolan, aged 75, was admitted to a Broadmeadows mental…
Australia’s national drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the equivalent to the U.S. Food and…
An Australian federal Inquiry into Mental Health’s Final Report correctly proposes that headspace…
Australia's national drug regulator has announced it will analyse hospital and…
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, memory loss and brain…
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 alert…
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…
Patients are still being prescribed hundreds of Xanax tablets a year…
The Australia Bureau of Statistics have reported that benzodiazepines used by more than…
Was the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health…
A young Aboriginal women has been given electroshock involuntarily. Electroshock is…
Are children being treated for “ADHD” and given potentially dangerous “ADHD” drugs by psychiatrists for normal…
This powerful film explores the science behind antidepressants, their effects on the brain and…
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…
The number of Australian children on potentially dangerous antipsychotics is increasing. These drugs are…
ABC News, 1 Nov 2018 The Victorian Supreme Court has said that orders forcing 2 patients to undergo…
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…
An Australian grandfather was given hundreds of electroshocks before he died. Victorian…
As a result of Miriam Merten’s death from brain injury after repeatedly…
WA children are still being put into seclusion and physically restrained in…
A father takes action to warn other parents about the potential dangers of…
A Melbourne woman describes what it is like to be on antipsychotics…
As the details of the horrific Flinders Street ramming attack have unfolded, it seems that “random” acts of violence are…
A victim of child abuse checked herself into a psychiatric unit at Melbourne’s…
Rhonda Trivett finally receives the phone call regarding the apology she had…
Whilst most people are under the impression that electroshock therapy (ECT) is banned in Australia because the mere idea of…
A Victorian woman is challenging the order for her to be given electroshock…
A total of 16,570 toddlers, children and teenagers under 17 were prescribed…
Due to skyrocketing numbers of children on antidepressants CCHR has released a documentary titled, Psychiatry Friend or Foe? The Untold…
The new Queensland Mental Health Act came into force on the 5th March 2017 after it had been under review…
There has been a dramatic increase in the psychiatric labelling and prescription of antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD drugs to Australian…
Below are areas of grave concern in the current Victorian Mental Health Act that need to be changed to protect…
CCHR asks for parents to come forward about sons who may be suffering a serious, antipsychotic drug side effect: growth…
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…
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…
With the call for the ban of physical restraint in young children this week by National Mental Health Commissioner, Ms…
Illegal for mental illness in NSW and the NT, Western Australian psychiatrists want to be able to barbarically cut 16…
14 year olds can agree to electroshock and 16 year olds to psychosurgery, both without parental consent! The WA Mental Health…
In June 2012, Australia was before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) regarding the…
The Queensland Mental Health Act is under review and public feedback is being called for on the current law. A…
"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…
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 With $1 billion spent on Victoria's mental health system, patient deaths should be prevented. The…
The Age newspaper reported: "FORMER Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry has…
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 Citizens Committee on Human Rights (CCHR) handed…
While British experts condemn "Psychosis Risk" labelling of youths as dangerous Citizens Committee on Human Rights called for policy changes in…
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…
CCHR Australia’s National Office has released a report titled, Psychiatric Drugs and Violence. The report recommends: That the Therapeutic Goods Administration must…
