Citizens Commission on Human Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is an organization founded in 1969 and attributable to the Church of Scientology . It was founded by Thomas Szasz , professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York and a prominent critic of forced psychiatric treatment. The organization fights against what it sees as human rights violations by psychiatry.
background
The association takes the same point of view as the Scientology organization with regard to psychiatry. Scientology's psychiatric criticism is sometimes based on L. Ron Hubbard's book "Today's Terrorism", which expresses itself about psychiatry in the following ways:
- "While western countries spend billions fighting terrorist activities abroad, they are neglecting the one they have at home. The psychiatrists and their front organizations' work bases are based directly on terrorist textbooks. The mafia compares these terrorist groups to an assembly of Establishing themselves as a symbol of terror, the psychiatrists kidnap, torture and murder without the slightest control or intervention by Western security forces. Under the direct orders of these terrorists, these security forces attack churches and peaceful, decent social groups instead.
- A psychiatrist kills a young girl for sexual excitement, murders a dozen patients with an ice pick, and castrates a hundred men. And you give him another million as a grant.
- One can only conclude that psychiatric terrorism is not confined to the families of insane asylum seekers. It has to go all the way up to the top. "
Criticism in the United States
Lynn Schultz-Writsel of the American Psychiatric Association says of the CCHR booklet, Psychiatry - Education's Ruin, “We did not respond in any way. There were no violent reactions from members to respond. And anyway, the publication speaks for itself. ”Kevin Dwyer of the National Association of School Psychologists in the United States says he's not so concerned about people taking CCHR's psychiatry pamphlets on ADHD seriously. "What worries me," he explained, "is that people are citing this secondhand material without citing the Scientology Organization as the source."
Louis Jolyon West , professor of psychiatry at the University of Los Angeles and human rights activist, wrote in 1991: “The CCHR was founded in 1969 to investigate and publish psychiatric 'human rights abuses'. These 'violations' include the professional use of electroconvulsive therapy , the use of Ritalin in children with difficulty concentrating, and indeed any psychiatric medical treatment involving the use of phenothiazines to Prozac . They actually declared war on Newsweek when it had a cover story about Prozac in an issue. "
Steven Sharfstein , president of the American Psychiatric Association in 2006, compared Scientologists protesting at a psychiatric convention to all kinds of anti-science scientists:
“As doctors, we search for the truth on a scientific basis and achieve reproducible results through research. The Scientologists protesting outside represent the opposite of the search for truth. They form a general anti-science movement along with groups such as defenders of intelligent design , fanatics of sexual abstinence, deniers of global warming , lobbyists against vaccinations , gay haters , and opponents of stem cell research . (As physicians we search for the truth based on science, producing replicable results through research. The Scientologists protesting outside ... represent the opposite of the search for truth. They are joined in a general movement against science by such groups as the intelligent design advocates, abstinence-only fanatics, global warming deniers, anti-vaccination lobbies, gay bashers, and stem cell research rejecters. "
Offshoot of KVPM in Germany
The Commission for Violations of Human Rights in Psychiatry (KVPM) was entered in the register of associations at the Munich District Court in 1973 . According to its statutes, it wants to “secure human rights against abuses by psychiatry and related fields” and to educate legislators, authorities and the public “about cases of ineffectiveness and harmful effects of psychiatric and psychological methods”.
In particular, the association denounces the use of psychotropic drugs and electroconvulsive therapy as well as the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in recent years . The reasons given are not only the psychiatric approach, but also deaths that are alleged to have been caused by the influence of psychotropic substances (such as treatment with Ritalin in childhood). In the association's brochures, today's psychiatry is often equated with the abuse of psychiatry during the Nazi era .
Ursula Caberta , head of the Scientology working group in Hamburg, which is critical of Scientology , called the association in October 2002 a “radical arm of Scientology, which superficially denounces grievances, but tries to draw people into the organization in this way.” A complaint by Scientology, however, was brought by the administrative court Hamburg rejected, an application for appeal withdrawn in July 2007.
The Commission is also criticized for its improper use of words. Words like “drugs”, “psychopills”, but also “infiltration” as well as titles such as “courage to live of a 25-year-old destroyed after 5 years of psychiatric treatment” or “child theft after psychological reports” can be found on their website.
museum
In their Psychiatry: An Industry of Death in Hollywood, which also exists in a virtual version, inglorious aspects of (psychiatry) history (for example eugenics or " MK Ultra ") are in a provocative or bold, sometimes even aggressive form with today's psychiatry Connected and controversial theses such as "mental illnesses do not exist" propagated.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingo Heinemann: ARCHIVE: Scientology as anti-psychiatry. In: agpf.de. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Psychiatric Profession Current Target of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Psychiatric Times, November 1996 (English) ( Memento from June 24, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Documentation: Between Scientology and Psychiatry published by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional association of relatives and friends of the mentally ill e. V. (PDF; 2.0 MB)
- ↑ Presidential Address in Toronto ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , American Journal of Psychiatry, October 2006, by Steven S. Sharfstein
- ↑ Scientology versus Ritalin , by Ingo Heinemann
- ↑ Scientology commissioner Caberta draws a positive balance after ten years in office , Die Welt, October 29, 2002
- ↑ Public authority information about Scientology is largely permissible ( memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AFP, July 18, 2007
- ↑ Home. In: www.kvpm.de. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
- ^ The Psychiatry Museum: Death Instead of Help. In: Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Retrieved January 13, 2017 .
