{"id":121151,"date":"2024-09-25T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=121151"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T23:33:42","slug":"citizens-commission-on-human-rights-exposes-the-harsh-truth-about-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/citizens-commission-on-human-rights-exposes-the-harsh-truth-about-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Commission on Human Rights Exposes the Harsh Truth About Psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece, and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Citizens Commission on Human Rights Greece brought the <em>Psychiatry: An Industry of Death<\/em> <em>Exhibit <\/em>to Athens in September 2024. The exhibit exposed the truth about psychiatry, the dangers of so-called psychiatric treatments, the harmful medications they promote, and the threat to the human rights of those trapped in the system. \u00ad\u00ad\u00adThe passage of a new mental health bill increased the urgency of educating the people of Greece to protect them from abuse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors toured the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit at the Zappeion Megaron in the heart of Athens\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-800x600-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-800x600-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><em>Photo caption: Visitors toured the \u201cPsychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit\u201d at the Zappeion Megaron in the heart of Athens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit opened September 13 at the stately Zappeion Megaron in the heart of Athens, where a constant stream of visitors was shocked to learn about the dark history and crimes of psychiatry, and the urgency of bringing psychiatrists and their practices under the law.<\/p>\n<p>The Athens CCHR president introduced those attending the exhibit\u2019s grand opening to psychiatry\u2019s sordid past, including the manipulation of those drafting the Council of Europe\u2019s Convention on Human Rights to deny personal freedoms to those suffering from so-called mental disorders \u201cfor their own good.\u201d CCHR has been at the vanguard of the fight against abuse\u2014a positive movement that has been gaining ground in recent years, most notably with the United Nations and World Health Organization\u2019s new guidelines calling for an end to coercion in the field of mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Although unable to attend, a psychiatrist and professor at the School of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki sent a speech to be read on his behalf, in which he stated, \u201cPsychiatry as an institution does not come under the provisions or regulation of any law. It is a law unto itself. Psychiatry as a practice, with its so-called \u2018treatment\u2019 through involuntary confinement, physical torture, psycho-pharmacological poisoning, electroshock and psychosurgery is a radical and total denial of law. It institutionalizes the breaking of every rule&#8230; The only possible conclusion from any critical consideration of psychiatry is that there is not, and cannot be, some vague and nebulous \u2018misuse\u2019 or \u2018abuse\u2019 of psychiatry that must be curbed. Because psychiatry <em>is an abuse in itself.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visitors who toured the exhibit were shocked and outraged by what they learned. One stated, \u201cThe volume of fraud and abuses from psycho-pharmaceuticals and the psychs is enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important accusation, based on chronological facts that were unknown to most of us,\u201d said another. \u201cA very dramatic image of what psychiatry has done to erase people,\u201d was the conclusion another guest reached. A woman who had been administered drugs against her will stated, \u201cI was raised believing I have no other choice, but you provided the answers, and I\u2019m ready to start over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work of Citizens Commission on Human Rights is inspired by visionary humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, who urged Scientologists to expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental health, help clean up and keep clean the field of mental health, and bring about an atmosphere of safety and security in the field of mental health by eradicating its abuses and brutality.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/\">CCHR website<\/a>, or watch brief documentaries on the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/voices-for-humanity\/\">CCHR volunteers in countries around the world<\/a> and the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/series\/cchr-documentaries\/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death.html\"><em>Psychiatry: An Industry of Death<\/em><\/a> on the Scientology Network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARN MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientologynews.org\/press-releases\/\">https:\/\/www.scientologynews.org\/press-releases\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\">https:\/\/www.cchr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrint.org\">https:\/\/www.cchrint.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/watch\/series\/cchr-documentaries\/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death.html\">https:\/\/www.scientology.tv\/watch\/series\/cchr-documentaries\/psychiatry-an-industry-of-death.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMAGE link for media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-300dpi.jpg\">https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/24-0925-s2p-COScchrathens-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo caption:<\/strong> Visitors toured the \u201cPsychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit\u201d at the Zappeion Megaron in the heart of Athens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong> #CitizensCommissionOnHumanRights #Athens #Greece #CCHR #PsychiatryAnIndustryOfDeath #TravelingExhibit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece, and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Citizens Commission on Human Rights Greece brought the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit to Athens in September 2024. The exhibit exposed the truth about psychiatry, the dangers of so-called psychiatric treatments, the harmful medications they promote, and the threat to the human rights of those trapped in the system. The passage of a new mental health bill increased the urgency of educating the people of Greece to protect them from abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9788,"featured_media":121148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,12804,19950],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-news","category-ap","category-greece-business","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":2741,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}