CCHR (Citizen's Commission on Human Rights) is an
anti-psychiatry Scientology organization. It goes beyond any
claims that psychiatry has some things wrong with it, or a lot
of things wrong with it; it goes beyond criticizing things like
lobotomies, electroshock therapy and Prozac.
Rather, CCHR claims that psychiatry is rotten to the core,
because the founding fathers of psychiatry didn't believe that
humans had souls, and thus treated humans as no different from
animals while developing their theories. But rather than claiming
that psychiatrists are simply wrong and misguided, it portrays
them as being likely to be scumbags.
While I don't doubt that there a lot of problems in the modern day
psychiatric profession, CCHR doesn't do the people it's trying to
help any good by going off the deep end and portraying
psychiatry as the major cause of misery in the world today. When
it makes such claims as these:
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a large part of the cause of the Holocaust was psychiatry
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that 150,00 women have been sexually abused by psychiatrists
(and backs this up by a footnoted reference to a analysis
it conducted, without making any other information about
that analysis available)
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that it was psychiatry that created racism
When it makes claims like that, rather than persuading people that
there are lots of problems in psychiatry, it will make them think
that anti-psychiatry is nothing more than a joke.
Their website is at http://cchr.org/
For some not-so friendly views of psychiatry that aren't
Scientology originated, try: