Abuse in Mental Health System
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Psychiatric Labels
- Harm caused by unscientific psychiatric diagnoses.
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Electroshock
- Information about electroshock, also called electroconvulsive therapy.
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An Overview of Psychiatric Abuse
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School of Shock: Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior
- The Village Voice looks at an institution that openly uses pain to try to control behavior of people labeled with mental disabilities.
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Psychiatric Coercion
- Techniques ranging from pressure to out right force in the mental health system.
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Racism
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Psychiatric Institutionalization
- Stories and information challenging the use of coerced lock-ups in psychiatric institutions.
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Veterans Mental Health
- Present and former military personnel and their family are often denied adequate alternatives and advocacy for mental and emotional well being.
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Brain Altering Technology Experiments
- Psychosurgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) are all examples of brain altering technology that may be used for psychiatric purposes and that are currently openly used internationally.
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“Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes”
- A 4 December 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, by Lucette Lagnado, describing the massive over-drugging of senior citizens.
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Restraint
- Information about restraint.
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E. Fuller Torrey: One of main opponents of human rights of mental health consumers & psychiatric survivors
- One of the main crusaders to make it easier to forcibly administer psychiatric drugs to mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors — including in their own homes — is psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, and his extremist organization Treatment Advocacy Center.
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