Psychiatry An Industry Of Death Exhibit In Vancouver

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, October 10, 2011 (Press-News.org) The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is having it's grand opening of an extraordinary exhibit called "Psychiatry The Industry Of Death" which exposes the fact that more than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions

The death exhibit, which corresponds with the Canadian Psychiatric Association Conference in October, will be open at 419 West Hastings Street from October 13 until the 25th seven days a week. It features many documentaries with statements from scores of health professionals, academics, legal and human rights experts and victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from electroshock and involuntary commitment to political torture, psychosurgery and the devastating effects of psychotropic drugs.

This state-of-the-art exhibit documents that psychiatry is an industry driven entirely by profit and provides practical guidance for lawmakers, doctors, human rights advocates and private citizens to take action in their own sphere to bring psychiatry under the law.

Brian Beaumont, president of the Vancouver chapter of CCHR Stated, "no adult or child should be victimized by drugs or treatments that are not cures and no government should support harm in the guise of help". He asks that all those with common sense and a passion for human rights to stand behind CCHR to make the truth about psychiatric abuses widely known and bring about the reforms that are so badly needed.

There have been 20 psychiatric drug warnings issued in the last few years alone, which link suicide, hostility, worsening depression, mania, hallucinations and death to psychiatric drugs that reap $80 billion dollars a year—an abuse CCHR has persistently exposed for three decades

Six psychiatrists have either been criminally convicted, stripped of their license to practice or severely reprimanded in British Columbia alone in the past 5 years, mostly for sexually assaulting their patients or for sexual misconduct with patients. One of the psychiatrists was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his criminal activities.

Psychiatrists are using electroshock, drugs and other barbaric means to torture political dissidents.

20 million children are now wearing false psychiatric labels that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove the scientific validity of any of the psychiatric labels, yet these children are prescribed dangerous and life-threatening psychiatric drugs based on nothing more than the invented label. Child drugging is a $4.8 billion-a-year industry.

More than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions.

Annually, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people with their use of electroshock—460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain. Three-quarters of all electroshock victims are women.

Studies show that 10 to 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients; of every 20 of these victims one is likely to be a minor.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric watchdog group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. Scientologists' stand on psychiatry comes from a deep concern about the brutality that is the hallmark of this practice.

401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6B 1L5