The Nashville chapter of Citizens Commission on Human Rights works
to expose abuse in the field of mental health.
Volunteers for the Nashville chapter of Citizens Commission on Human Rights
are working to raise public awareness of the Mental Health Declaration of Human
Rights.
CCHR is a nonprofit mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to
enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive
practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic inalienable human rights to
the field of mental health, including, but not limited to, full informed
consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of
psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives and the
right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.
CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor
of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz at a time when patients were being
warehoused in institutions and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human
rights.
With recent international headlines warning populations of the dangers
of psychotropic drugs, and resultant loss in sales, psychiatrists are shifting
focus and regressing to electroshock treatment. Wrapped in a new package
and renamed “deep brain stimulation,” this controversial procedure has been
touted as safe without sufficient evidence to back that claim.
CCHR Nashville reminds citizens that the Mental Health Declaration of
Human Rights as proffered by CCHR International includes “the right to accept
or refuse treatment but in particular, the right to refuse sterilization,
electroshock treatment, insulin shock, lobotomy,” and a host of other sordid
modes of mental manipulation. The Declaration contains over thirty
rights, such as “the right to discharge oneself at any time and to be
discharged without restriction, having committed no offense.”
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