{"id":100,"date":"2009-02-02T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:50","slug":"state-of-the-art-touring-exhibit-targets-psychiatry-as-an-industry-of-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/02\/state-of-the-art-touring-exhibit-targets-psychiatry-as-an-industry-of-death-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE-OF-THE-ART TOURING EXHIBIT TARGETS PSYCHIATRY AS AN \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cINDUSTRY OF DEATH\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"
With public distrust of psychiatry mounting\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand government agency warnings about psychiatric drugs at an all-time high\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009da new exhibit in St. Louis, Missouri shows that it could get much worse.<\/em><\/div>\n

St. Louis – Denouncing the fact that internationally more than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions and an estimated 15,000 American children have died as a consequence of taking psychiatric drugs, the St. Louis Chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) launched the Grand Opening of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPsychiatry: An Industry of Death\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d international touring exhibition and documentaries.<\/p>\n

The featured Keynote Speaker, Vice President of Information and Public Contact at Applied Scholastics International, William Garrett, officially opened the exhibit at 2:30 PM on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at Jamestown Mall in Florissant, Missouri. The exhibit is open daily until February 15.<\/p>\n

The exhibit features 15 display panels that incorporate audio-visual presentations depicting human rights abuses by psychiatry and carry statements from health professionals, academics, legal and human rights experts, and victims of psychiatric brutalities. The exhibit also addresses a federal plan that would screen the state\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s children for \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmental illness\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d that could lead to a threefold increase in the number of children being subjected to the devastating effects of psychotropic drugs.<\/p>\n

Portions of the touring exhibit also made an appearance in the Rotunda of the Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City the 19th-21st of January; and portions will also appear at the Working Women\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Survival Show at the St. Charles Convention Center the 13th-15th of February.<\/p>\n

The 185-foot, state-of-the-art exhibit exposes psychiatry as an industry driven entirely by profit. It traces the origins of psychiatry, the role psychiatrists have played in the oppression of blacks and minorities, the roots of their eugenics programs and the pivotal part they played in the Holocaust. It also reveals how psychiatric drugs are behind gun-toting teens today going on shooting sprees, and how millions of federal dollars allocated to screen all 52 million American schoolchildren could increase both child deaths and acts of school violence. People touring the exhibit today signed a petition opposing funding and implementation of mental health screening in schools.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe touring exhibit shows psychiatry\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s deadly \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153treatments\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 in graphic detail,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d warns CCHR St. Louis chapter spokesperson, Teresa Hassler, who listed out psychosurgery, shock treatment, deadly restraint and the prevalent inhumane conditions of psychiatric facilities, and the forced drugging of children as young as six months old. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cMost importantly, though, this exhibit provides practical guidance for lawmakers, educators, doctors, human rights advocates and private citizens so they can take action in their own spheres to bring psychiatry to account for their abuses.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

The touring \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPsychiatry: An Industry of Death\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d exhibit theme is patterned after a permanent museum by the same name at the Los Angeles headquarters of Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, a psychiatric watchdog group with 300 chapters worldwide. Co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, CCHR investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights.<\/p>\n

Ms. Hassler said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOur exhibit shows very clearly how, in the name of \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153help,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 psychiatry, in fact, destroys lives.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

A sampling of current statistics and facts shown in the exhibit bears this out:<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 20 million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs, including 10 million in the United States, which can cause suicide, hostility, violence, mania, strokes, heart attacks, diabetes and death.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children increased fivefold between 1993 and 2002 in the United States, during which time 45 children died from the drugs.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 In recent years, stimulant drugs have caused 19 child deaths, although as only 1% to 10% of drug adverse reactions are reported, the death toll from children taking antipsychotic drugs, stimulants and antidepressants could be as high as 15,000.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 10% of American teens (2.3 million) are abusing psychiatric stimulants.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 More than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions around the world.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Psychiatrists are using electroshock, drugs and other barbaric means to torture political dissidents.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Internationally, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people each year with their use of electroshock\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Three-quarters of all electroshock victims are women.
\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Psychiatrists and psychologists have raped 250,000 women.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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