{"id":127395,"date":"2025-07-01T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=127395"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:44:43","slug":"cchr-exhibit-exposes-psychiatric-abuse-amid-national-inquiry-into-more-than-2000-patient-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/cchr-exhibit-exposes-psychiatric-abuse-amid-national-inquiry-into-more-than-2000-patient-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"CCHR Exhibit Exposes Psychiatric Abuse Amid National Inquiry Into More Than 2,000 Patient Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, U.K., July 1, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)<\/a> placed its Psychiatry: An Industry of Death<\/em> Exhibit<\/em> in the heart of London in Cavendish Square, timed to coincide with the Lampard Inquiry\u2014the first public investigation into deaths in the UK\u2019s mental health system.<\/p>\n

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Photo caption: The Executive Director of CCHR United Kingdom, along with other speakers, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome visitors to the CCHR Exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\n

The exhibit exposed a hidden side of psychiatry that too often goes unacknowledged. Hundreds toured the exhibit\u2014from students to social workers, nurses, families and survivors. Each left with a new, often stunned, perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is shocking, patients deserve respect and good treatment rather than those horrible acts,\u201d said one visitor. Another called it \u201ca real eye-opener,\u201d decrying the alliance between psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies and media to keep abuses hidden. One nurse from Essex, who works alongside two psychologists, said she found the exhibit incredible and planned to take the information back to her colleagues and follow the Lampard Inquiry more closely.<\/p>\n

Visitors found the exhibit didn\u2019t just educate\u2014it validated their own experiences. One woman, whose brother had been diagnosed as schizophrenic, shared her family\u2019s painful journey through a system that failed them. Another, a survivor of childhood abuse, was involuntarily committed after speaking out. In her words, she had been \u201cnumbed by drugs, upset and abused,\u201d with psychiatric medication forced on her. Seeing the exhibit, she said, inspired her hope and determination \u201cto see justice all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speakers addressed the crowd with powerful testimony. One advocate declared, \u201cI stand here today for every person who was told their sadness was a disease. For every teenager handed a bottle of pills instead of a listening ear. For every soul who sat alone in a locked room, medicated against their will. And for every survivor who dared to say: \u2018No more.\u2019 The psychiatric industry would have us believe that being human is a disorder. They call it care. But what kind of care begins with force? What kind of healing demands silence, submission, sedation? The fight we are waging is not against medicine itself\u2014it\u2019s against a system that forgot the meaning of healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Lampard Inquiry is drawing national attention to longstanding psychiatric failures, CCHR\u2019s exhibit lays bare how these failures are not isolated incidents but symptoms of a systemic problem: a model of care built on force, sedation and silence. The inquiry, investigating over 2,000 deaths in the Essex mental health system, reveals appalling delays in justice for grieving families and highlights \u201cinstitutional defensiveness\u201d obstructing truth and accountability.<\/p>\n

The CCHR exhibit called for informed consent, alternative solutions to emotional distress, and accountability for the industry that inflicts harm under the guise of \u201ctreatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for raising awareness. Appalling that this is still happening!\u201d wrote one guest. \u201cSociety needs such an awareness in today\u2019s world,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1969 by psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology, CCHR continues to expose psychiatric abuse globally. In the UK, the organization remains committed to ensuring the public knows the whole truth and their rights within the field of mental health. https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo caption: The Executive Director of CCHR United Kingdom, along with other speakers, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to welcome visitors to the CCHR Exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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