ECT survivors speak out about the painful practice administered to an estimated 100,000 Americans each year, including children ...

“Ireland’s ban on electroshock treatment for minors marks a significant step forward in protecting vulnerable young people from a damaging, torturous procedure. While this decision advances human ...

CCHR International strongly rejects a recent joint statement issued on March 31, 2026, by the World, European, and American psychiatric associations that advocates increasing the use of electroshock ...

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and psychological techniques to influence and control human ...

“The evidence reviewed by Harvard scholars leaves no ambiguity: mental health change is impossible without dismantling institutional corruption and ending coercive psychiatric practices. Human ...

“The FDA has utterly ignored clear-cut evidence of brain damage, memory loss, and death resulting from ECT. ECT is barbaric and should be removed from the market.” – Jonathan Emord, Attorney A ...

“Forced ECT, drugging, seclusion, restraint, and involuntary institutionalization constitute potential torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. These are not medical interventions; they are ...

“Veterans deserve more than drug cocktails, electroshock, and false diagnoses. They deserve care that restores dignity, functionality, and hope.” – Jan Eastgate, President CCHR International Billions ...

“Involuntary psychiatric commitment of the homeless is not a compassionate solution—it’s a costly, coercive, and dangerous policy built on a system that has failed for decades. It compounds trauma, ...

Since its founding in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has been on the front lines of restoring human rights to the ...

“Psychotropic drugs are being used to sedate, restrain, and silence, and, as such, are a tool of oppression. CCHR asserts that this practice meets the legal definition of elder abuse and must be ...