CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and the late Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Syracuse. At that time, the victims of psychiatry were a forgotten minority group, warehoused under terrifying conditions in institutions around the world. Acknowledged by the Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Commission a
s responsible for “many great reforms” that protect people from psychiatric abuse, CCHR has documented thousands of individual cases that demonstrate psychiatric drugs and often-brutal psychiatric practices such as restraint, forced electroshock and forced psychosurgery can create severe harm. Since 1969, CCHR’s work has helped to save the lives of millions and prevented needless suffering for millions more. Many countries have now mandated informed consent for psychiatric treatment and the right to legal representation, advocacy, recourse and compensation for patients. In some countries, the use of psychosurgery and electroshock on children is banned. Anyone who has been harmed in the mental health system can contact CCHR to report what occurred to them. https://cchr.org.au/report-psychiatric-abuse
While CCHR does not provide medical or legal advice, it works closely with lawyers and medical doctors and supports medical, but not psychiatric, practices. One of CCHR’s primary concerns with psychiatry is its unscientific diagnostic system. Unlike medical diagnosis, psychiatrists categorize symptoms only, not disease. Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., says, “The notion of scientific validity, though not an act, is related to fraud. Validity refers to the extent to which something represents or measures what it purports to represent or measure. When diagnostic measures do not represent what they purport to represent, we say that the measures lack validity...The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association…is notorious for low scientific validity.” This is the main manual used in Australia to diagnose. Understanding this fraudulent diagnostic premise, it can be seen why psychiatry entrusted with billions of dollars offers no cures and can make the problems that vulnerable children and adults experience, worse. Psychiatric drugs can cause aggression, sexual dysfunction, irreversible nervous system damage, hallucinations, anxiousness, psychosis and even death. Too often psychiatrists do not inform patients at time of prescribing, that they should not stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent medical doctor due to discontinuation effects which is worsening of existing symptoms or new not before experienced symptoms. Australia's drug regulatory agency has issued multipole psychiatric drug warnings concerning the dangers of just stopping a psychiatric drug. CCHR’s members include prominent doctors, lawyers, artists, educators, civil and human rights representatives and professionals who see it as their duty to help those who have been harmed and to “expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental healing.” They work to directly help those who have been harmed and to accomplish these clearly stated aims with many like-minded individuals and groups, including politicians, teachers, health professionals, government and law enforcement officers and media. Today, with chapters in over 20 countries, CCHR has established itself as a powerful advocacy group who assists victims and works to improve the human rights of victims.
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