Psychiatry Fraud

Listing of links to articles, reports, videos | September 17, 2026

Psychiatric Fraud in Forced Hospitalizations and “Crisis Intervention” and “Crisis Care”

A document titled 'IMPORTANT NOTICE For the Reader' discussing the nature of psychiatric disorders and their classification as mental health issues, emphasizing that they are not considered medical diseases.
Excerpt, CCHR International’s Report, Massive Fraud

How Psychiatric Fraud Drives Forced Hospitalizations--Video, Rob Wipond

AP-DEW/Neurotech Abuse: The Psych Cover-Up

Against Their Will: Locked away in a mental hospital after voluntarily seeking help, WFAA, Texas, Feb 23, 2018

Why I Hated Working at a Psychiatric Hospital: An Exposé by a Former Therapist, Daniel Mackler

Who Decides if you are crazy enough to be locked up? Interview with Rob Wipond, Dr. Josef, June 20, 2025

The Fraud of Psychiatry & “Mental Illness”, The Lie of “Chemical Imbalance”

Text discussing the distinction between psychiatric disorders and medical diseases, emphasizing that psychiatric disorders lack proven medical criteria.
Excerpt, CCHR International’s Report, Massive Fraud

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness, Gary Greenberg, December 27, 2018, Wired [There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.”–Allen Frances, DSM Editor, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University]

Text discussing the theory that mental disorders are caused by a 'chemical imbalance' in the brain, highlighting it as an unproven opinion. Includes a quote from Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D.
Excerpt, CCHR International’s Report, Massive Fraud

Massive Fraud: Psychiatry’s Corrupt Industry, CCHR International,Report and Recommendations on the Criminal Mental Health Monopoly

Exposing Psychiatry as a Fraud from Top to Bottom, Jon Rappoport, Waking Times, July 18, 2018

Challenging the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders: Robert Whitaker, Journalist–Excerpt from Interview, Short Video, Medicating Normal

A Convo w/ Joanna Moncrieff: “Chemically Imbalanced The Making & Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth”, Video, Medicating Normal

So many of the most influential psychiatrists are in the pay of drug companies--Excerpt from Interview, John Reed, Short Video, Medicating Normal

Psychiatrist says we need to radically DE-MEDICALIZE mental health problems–Excerpt from Interview, Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, Author of “The Myth of the Chemical Cure”, Short Video, Medicating Normal

A promotional image for the film 'Medicating Normal' featuring two people appearing to float among colorful pills against a blue sky background.

No Evidence Depression is Biological?! | Joanna Moncrieff & Nick Fortino | Psychology Is Clips/Short Video Clips, Psychology Is

Psychiatric Diagnoses are not based on Science, Dr. Peter Gotszche, Short Video, Excerpt from Interview, Medicating Normal

The Truth About Depression, Interview with Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, Triggernometry, Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster)

The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz, MD

Fraud in Psychiatry, Behavioral Health, Mental Health Industries

DOJ Takedown Exposes Over $220 Million Defrauded in Behavioral Mental Health Fraud Schemes/Jan Eastgate, CCHR International, July 6, 2026

$20 Billion in Psychiatric Fraud Requires Government Oversight and Patient Protections – Part 1, Jan Eastgate, CCHR International, Feb 17, 2023

Brain Damage Caused by Psych Drugs

Brain Damage Caused by Neuroleptic Psychiatric Drugs, Mind Freedom–a listing of articles here

Psychiatric drug-induced Chronic Brain Impairment (CBI): implications for long-term treatment with psychiatric medication, Peter R Breggin  1

Psychiatric Drugs “Help” By Causing Brain Dysfunction, Les Ruthven, July 2021

If Psychiatric Drugs Don’t Cure Disease, then what do they do?–Excerpt from Interview, Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, Short Video, Medicating Normal

Public Lecture by Professor Peter Gøtzsche: “Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good”

Coercive Psychiatry

Coercive Practices in Psychiatry Are Being Systematically Underreported, Study Suggests, Richard Sears, September 7, 2026

Patients’ and staff members’ experiences of restrictive practices in acute mental health in-patient settings: systematic review and thematic synthesis, Hannah Butterworth et al, Oct 6, 2022, BJPsych