Psychiatry Fraud

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

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

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

Fraud in Psychiatry, Mental Health, and Behavioral Health Industries

Brain Damage from Psych Drugs

Coercive Psychiatry

Coercive Psychiatry Leads to Abuse, Trauma, Death

Medieval Coercive Psychiatry Causing Brain Damage: Electroshock, Labeled “Electro Convulsive Treatment”

Paid Propaganda Propping Up Psychiatry

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

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

Court Settlement Paves the Way to Longer Psychiatric Incarcerations/The once-noble U.S. Department of Justice lies down and waves the bulldozers over, PsychForce Report, Rob Wipond, September 26, 2026

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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

Forced treatment in psychiatry is a crime against humanity, Dr. Peter Goetsche, Journal of the Academy of Public Health, 30 January 2025

Forced Hospitalization: For Kids and Adults, It Makes No Sense, Amy Biancolli, Mad in America, February 14, 2024

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

Forced Hospitalization Expands Carceral Control Over Mental Illness, Substance Use, Report Warns, Naisha John, July 23, 2026, Vanguard News Group, The People’s Vanguard of Davis

Involuntary commitment: How forced hospitalization expands the criminal legal system, Emily Widra, Prison Policy Initiative, July 21, 2026

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Text discussing forced psychiatric and substance use treatment in the United States and its implications on civil commitment and racial disparities. — Excerpt, Involuntary Commitment, Prison Policy Initiative, 2026

Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization Fails Vulnerable People: CCHR Urges Repeal Amid Rising U.S. Policies, CCHR International, The Mental Health Industry Watchdog, March 20, 2026

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Shackled and Silenced: The Unseen Crisis of Forced Psychiatric Hospitalizations in America, The Nomothete, LinkedIn, April 4, 2025

Investigating the impact of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization on youth and young adult trust and help-seeking in pathways to care/Nev Jones¹, Becky K Gius², Morgan Shields^3,4, Shira Collings⁵, Cherise Rosen⁶, Michelle Munson⁷, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 9 March 2021

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Involuntary Mental Health Treatment: A Human Rights Crisis in Authoritarian Times, Alberto Vásquez Encalada, Jul 18, 2025, Human Rights Magazine, American Bar Association

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Text discussing the rising rates of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in various countries, highlighting statistical data and legislative reforms. — Excerpt, Involuntary Mental Health Treatment: A Human Rights Crisis in Authoritarian Times, Alberto Vasquez, Encalada, Human Rights Magazine, American Bar Association, 2025

Book: The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts, , Editor, Thomas Szasz 1973

Involuntary Hospitalization of the Psychiatric Patient: Should it be Abolished? (1969)/National Library of Medicine

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

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

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

Medicating Normal, the Documentary/Youtube, 76 minutes, English

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

A Critique of the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia and Psychosis, Joanna Moncrieff, MBBS, MSc, MD, MRCPsych

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Text extract discussing research on dopamine concentrations and its link to psychosis or schizophrenia, with a citation reference. — Excerpt, A Critique of the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia and Psychosis, Joanna Moncrieff

Debunking the Brain Chemical Imbalance Myth, Victim Focus, Dr. Jessica Taylor, 2022

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A collage of quotes from various experts discussing the limitations and uncertainties of the chemical imbalance theory in mental health research. — Excerpt, Debunking the Brain Chemical Imbalance Myth, Dr. Jessica Taylor, 2022

Text from a document stating that none of the 374 mental disorders in the DSM/ICD should be eligible for insurance coverage due to lack of scientific validation. — Excerpt, Massive Fraud, CCHR International

The DSM: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam:

Why the DSM Is Mostly False/95.2% False, to be exact, Nassir Ghaemi, The Psychiatry Letter/Substack November 21, 2023 [Interestingly, while establishing the DSM is neither scientific nor rational, this psychiatrist tells other psychiatrists to “diagnose” twice, therefore, once, subjectively, from the False and Non-Scientific DSM for insurance codes and payment, the other, subjectively, from their own assessment; in other words, perpetuate the DSM Mythology, don’t challenge it. Because it’s so important for Psychiatry to persist and Psychiatrists to be paid, regardless of the crimes they commit on people, falsely claiming “diagnosis” of mental illness.]

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Text from an article discussing the use of the DSM in psychiatry, highlighting its social construction and suggesting it be used administratively rather than for clinical practice. — Excerpt, Why the DSM is Mostly False, Nassir Ghaemi/Substack

Leading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a Science, Bruce Levine, PhD, January 12, 2023

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The Cult of DSM, Ending our Allegiance to the Great Gazoo, Gary Greenberg, Psychotherapy Networker, March/April 2014 [Another article acknowledging the falseness of the DSM yet using it for insurance codes and billing purposes and other stated conveniences.]

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Text discussing the validity of psychiatric diagnoses and the limitations of the DSM in classifying mental health disorders. — Excerpt, The Cult of DSM, Ending our Allegiance to the Great Gazoo, Gary Greenberg

Book: The making of DSM-III : a diagnostic manual’s conquest of American psychiatry, Decker, Hannah S, 2013

Book: Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, Allen Frances, Chair, DSM-IV Task Force, 2013

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Text discussing the definition of mental disorder and its evolution over time, highlighting the increasing number of recognized disorders. — Excerpt, Saving Normal, Allen Frances

Book: Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease, Gary Greenberg, 2010

Book: The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, Gary Greenberg, About the DSM & DSM-V, May 2013

Cover of 'The Book of Woe' by Gary Greenberg, discussing the DSM and its impact on psychiatry. — Excerpt, About The Book of Woe from Gary Greenberg’s website/About the DSM and the making of the Fifth edition of the DSM

It’s all in your head, Interview with Gary Greenberg, July 15, 2013, Katherine Rowland, Guernica Magazine

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A quote discussing skepticism towards the DSM and its perceived lack of credibility, highlighting a personal conflict regarding involvement with the manual. — Excerpt, It’s all in your head, Interview with Gary Greenberg, Guernica Magazine

Lessons from the DSM-5, Allen Frances (Emeritus Professor Psychiatry, Duke University, Chair, DSM-IV Task Force) Psychopathology Review, 2014

Excerpt, on the falsehood of “diagnoses” using the non-medical, non-scientific Psychiatry Bible, the DSM:

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, a documentary, CCHR International

20 Brutally Honest Truths About Psychiatry, Dr. Josef; Video, 20 mins.

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)

Thumbnail for the video 'The Truth About Depression - Dr. Joanna Moncrieff', featuring Dr. Moncrieff with a concerned expression and a graphic emphasizing 'It's Not A Chemical Imbalance' alongside colorful pills. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_iFfQ8ceMY

Book cover of 'Chemically Imbalanced' by Joanna Moncrieff, featuring a bright blue background with the title prominently displayed and various colorful speech bubbles containing quotes praising the book. — https://joannamoncrieff.wordpress.com/

Joanna Moncrieff – The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment/Public Lecture at UNE Center for Global Humanities

The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz, MD/2 part interview

Book: Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008

Book: The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, Thomas Szasz, 1961

What’s Wrong with Psychiatry? A Psychiatrist Explains…/Professor Niall McLaren, October 24, 2009/short video

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

“ICYMI: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joins national health care fraud takedown resulting in over $6.5 Billion in alleged fraud,” SC AG, 25 June 2026

Revealed: how drug firms ‘hoodwink’ medical journals/Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles – then put doctors’ names on them, Antony Barnett, Public Affairs Editor, The Guardian, 7 Dec 2003

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 Breggin¹

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

Book: Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain, Peter R. Breggin, 1983

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

Injury, Death, Disability from Dangerous Psych Drugs: Recruitment of homeless people for drug trials raises serious ethical issues, U bioethicist says/by Susan Perry 08/11/2014

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

Coercive Measures in Psychiatry Can Hardly Be Justified in Principle Any Longer—Ethico-Legal Requirements Versus Empirical Research Data and Conceptual Issues, Dirk Richter, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 25 October 2024

Is Psychiatry Becoming More Coercive?/The rising trend is damaging for patients, unsupported by evidence, and must be reversed. S. P. Sashidharan, Benedetto Saraceno, British Medical Journal, 22 June 2017

Text discussing the increasing rates of coercive psychiatric interventions in England and Scotland, highlighting involuntary hospital admissions and coercive measures in mental healthcare. — Excerpt, Is Psychiatry Becoming More Coercive?/BMJ

European Union flag waving in front of a modern building, accompanied by a quote from Ms. Laura Castel regarding the risks of involuntary institutionalization. — Excerpt, Europe Rejects Forced Psychiatry…CCHR

Europe Rejects Forced Psychiatry: Landmark Vote Declares Coercive Psychiatric Practices Incompatible with Human Rights, Jan Eastgate, President, CCHR International, January 30, 2026

Ms. Laura Castel, Chairperson and Spokesperson for the Group of the Unified European Left, speaking in a legislative assembly.

Video of the debate/from PACE website: https://vodmanager.coe.int/coe/webcast/coe/2026-01-28-2/en/48

Draft additional protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services, 2026

Earlier PACE recommendations rejecting forced psychiatry:

The case against a Council of Europe legal instrument on involuntary measures in psychiatry, 2016

Ending coercion in mental health: the need for a human rights-based approach, 2019

Ending the detention of “socially maladjusted” persons, 2024; Report, Ending the detention of “socially maladjusted persons”

Deinstitutionalizing of Persons with Disabilities, 2022; Resolution 2431, Deinstitutionalizing of Persons with Disabilities

Equality and Inclusion of People with Disabilities, 2015

The medieval Oviedo Convention Draft Protocol on advocating for coercion, force, and involuntary psychiatry, which was rejected: Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO) – b. Draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services, 2022

The full Oviedo Convention which strips human rights away from everyone, privileging scientific research above all: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine *
Oviedo, 4.IV.1997, CETS 164/adopted in 1999; Oviedo website: Oviedo Convention

PACE TV: January 2026; Rapporteur Carmen Leyte (Spain, EPP/CD) told the Mediabox why PACE, in an opinion, unanimously rejected a new draft protocol on involuntary measures in mental health/4 minute video:

New Mental Health Guidelines Challenge American Psychiatry to Stop Coercion, Jan Eastgate, CCHR International, 25 April 2025

Text outlining the World Health Organization's new guidance on mental health policy, emphasizing the elimination of coercive psychiatric practices and the importance of informed consent. — Excerpt, New Mental Health Guidelines Challenge American Psychiatry to Stop Coercion

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To quote and support CCHR’s co-founder, Prof. Thomas Szasz:

“Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.”

2025: A Turning Point for Human Rights. CCHR Demands End to Coercive Psychiatry, CCHR International, The Mental Health Watchdog, December 26, 2025

“What we need is Psychiatric Abolition, not Psychiatric Slavery“: Dr. Thomas Szasz; Dr. Thomas Szasz Tribute- Psychiatrist, Acclaimed Author & CCHR Co-Founder

“The controversy about the Myth of Mental Illness and Psychiatry is not about Science or Medicine, it is about Power.” Dr. Jeffrey Schaler, Professor of Psychology.

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

Independent Evaluation Finds No Benefit to Coercion Under New York’s Kendra’s Law, Richard Sears, Mad in America,

Coercive Measures in Psychiatry are Increasing, Traumatic, and Linked to Systemic Failings, Richard Sears, Mad in America, April 3, 2026

Text excerpt discussing involuntary psychiatric detention rates and coercive measures in various countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Norway, England, Austria, and Sweden. — Excerpt, Coercive Measures in Psychiatry are Increasing/Mad in America, April 3, 2026

Urgent Need to End Mandated Community Psychiatric Programs Due to Global Alarm, The Mental Health Industry Watchdog, May 23, 2025

MEMORANDUM: Ban Coercive Psychiatric Practices & Abuse—Create Human Rights In Mental Health, CCHR International, 2023

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, UN General Assembly, 1 February, 2013

Coercion in mental healthcare: time for a change in direction/Andrew Molodynski^1,✉, Yasser Khazaal², Felicity Callard, BJ Psych International, 1 Feb 2016

Book: Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy & Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock & Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatry, Peter R. Breggin, 1991

WE MUST END COERCIVE PSYCHIATRY

CCHR Address to the UN: We Must End Coercive Psychiatry, Exec. Director Fran Andrews and President Jan Eastgate, August 16, 2025/7.5 minute video

CCHR Addresses UN in Support of Global Ban on Coercive Psychiatry, CCHR International, August 15, 2025

Coercive Psychiatry Leads to Abuse, Trauma, Death

Six Year Olds Ripped from Schools, Involuntarily Committed and Forcibly Drugged; CCHR International, Feb 25, 2020

Excerpt, about another case in Michigan, a 11-year-old handicapped girl with vaccine injury, forced back onto dangerous anti-psychotics by police and “social services”:

Text discussing the story of 11-year-old Ariana from Detroit, Michigan, who was forcibly drugged with an antipsychotic, and her mother's fight against child protective services.

“Florida: Police took a 6-year-old girl to a mental health facility because she was ‘out of control’ at school,” The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2020

6-year-old committed to mental health facility without mother’s consent, NBC News 2, 16 Feb. 2020

What Modern Day Heroes Look Like—Detroit Mother Maryanne Godboldo & Attorney Allison Folmar/It has been said that “heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.” Maryanne Godboldo and Allison Folmar are extraordinary women.Kelly Patricia O’Meara, CCHR, 23 April 2013

How a 6-year-old (boy, Florida) got locked on a Psych Ward, Rosalind Adams, Buzzfeed News, December 31, 2016

“A Danger to Self and Others: Health and Criminal Consequences of Involuntary Hospitalization,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, no. 1158, July 2025

New Study Finds Involuntary Commitment Fails to Prevent Suicide and Forced Psychiatric Detainment Raises Suicide Risk, CCHR Int, The Mental Health Industry Watchdog, November 14, 2025

“High risk of suicide found after involuntary psychiatric care, especially for young men,” Karolinska Institutet, Medical Xpress, 5 Nov. 2025

Their kids died on the psych ward. They were far from alone, a Times investigation found, Soumya Karamangla, LA Times, December 1, 2019

“A Grieving Family Seeks Answers After a Patient Dies at Oregon State Hospital,” Lookout Eugene-Springfield, 2 Nov. 2025

Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment of the Homeless: A Dangerous, Costly Failure, Jan Eastgate, CCHR International, August 1, 2025

Involuntary Commitment and Forced Mental Health Treatment Violate Human Rights, CCHR International, January 23, 2023

Maryanne Godboldo’s Story Timeline of Events Leading to Armed Assault on Her and Her Daughter, CCHR International

‘Toxic culture’ of abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC secret filming/28 September 2022, Panorama team and Joseph Lee, BBC News

Number of U.S. Children Taking Psychiatric Drugs, CCHR, Data extracted January 2021

Table displaying statistics of psychiatric drug usage in children aged 0-17 years, with a total of 6,155,852 prescriptions and a detailed age breakdown. — Excerpt, Number of US Children Taking Psychiatric Drugs

Abuse, Neglect, Serious Injury, Death among children in Michigan’s psychiatric hospitals: Michigan senator says he was ‘misled and stonewalled’ over mental health patient protections/Oversight committee hears from Webber, auditor general staff, Click on Detroit, November, 4, 2025

Mental health centres treated teens ‘worse than animals’/15 minute vieo news feature/Sky News/about a centre in Britain

A bulletin board displaying photographs and information, including a photo labeled 'Amber' and a sign reading 'The Huntercombe Hospital Maidenhead,' connected with red and blue strings.

Medieval Coercive Psychiatry Causing Brain Damage: Electroshock, Labeled “Electro Convulsive Treatment”

Book: Electroshock, Its Brain-disabling Effects, Peter R. Breggin, 1979

Effects of Electric Shock On The Brain Explained, May 7, 2026, Electrocuted.com

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A text block explaining the serious effects of electric shock on the brain, including immediate symptoms like loss of consciousness and long-term complications such as memory loss and increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases. — Screenshot, electrocuted.com

Brain Damaging Effects of Electroshock: The Facts, CCHR International/links to several articles and petitions here to ban electroshock, still used worldwide despite its brain-damaging effects.

Patient “Unrecognisable” After ECT Psychiatric Treatment | Our Life, True Lives–a video documentary on older adults electroshocked in the UK.

ECT: Dangerous on Either Side of the Pond, Author(s)John Read, PhD, Sarah Hancock, MS, CRC, Sue Cunliffe, MBchB, RCPCH, Psychiatric Times, April 5, 2021

New Study Confirms Electroshock (ECT) Causes Brain Damage, Dr. Peter R. Breggin, April 2012, Huffington Post

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Text discussing the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and its impact on brain function. — Excerpt, New Study Confirms Electroshock (ECT) Causes Brain damage, Peter Breggin

Book: Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex, Peter Breggin, December 17, 2007

Why are patients and families not told the truth about electroconvulsive therapy?, August 15, 2025, BMJ, Journal of Medical Ethics, By John Read, Sarah Price Hancock, Lisa Morrison, Lucy Johnstone, Chris Harrop, and Sue Cunliffe

Global Survey Confirms Electroshock Risks Hidden from the Public, CCHR International, The Mental Health Industry Watchdog, August 22, 2025

Therapy or Torture? Ban ECT, A documentary, CCHR International

A man with electrodes on his head appears distressed, with a visual effect suggesting electric shock, under the title 'Therapy or Torture?'

Promotional graphic for the documentary 'Therapy or Torture' discussing the impact and history of electroconvulsive therapy.

Shocked: With evidence for efficacy so thin, and the stakes so high, why is ‘electroshock’ therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?, John Read, Psyche/Aeon

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Text discussing historical extreme medical treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and various physical procedures used in the early 20th century. — Shocked, John Read, Aeon

Infographic displaying the projected growth of the global electroconvulsive therapy market from 2026 to 2033, highlighting an increase from $18.5 million in 2026 to $22.9 million by 2033, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.1%. — Excerpt, Global Electroconvulsive Therapy Market Size and Forecast, Coherent Market Insights

Bar graph displaying the Global Electrocovulsive Therapy Machine Market Size and Scope from 2024 to 2033, with values in USD million. The graph indicates a growth from 1.5 billion in 2024 to 2.5 billion in 2033 with a CAGR of 6.5%. — Excerpt, Global ECT Machine Market Size, Verified Market Reports

Electroconvulsive therapy linked to wide range of severe effects, international survey suggests, by University of East London, edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan, November 21, 2025

Electric shock therapy ‘ineffective and can erase memories’/Study finds majority of patients polled say medical procedure made their quality of life worse, Sarah Knapton, Telegraph, 12 August 2025

An informative text discussing the controversial use of electroshock therapy on children, highlighting global practices, historical bans, and recent inquiries into the issue. — Excerpt, CCHR Addresses UN in Support of Global Ban on Coercive Psychiatry, August 15, 2025

No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT, Niall McLaren, June 27, 2017

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Text discussing the potential brain damage caused by ECT and its effects on memory, alongside opinions on its use in psychiatry. — Excerpt, No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT, Niall McLaren

Dr, Peter Breggin’s ECT and DBS Resources Center

Excerpt:”The process always damages the brain“

Text description about Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) explaining the procedure and its effects. — Excerpt, Dr. Peter Breggin’s ECT and DBS Resources Center

ElectroShock is Brain Trauma–Dr. Peter Breggin, Simple Truth No. 10

A middle-aged man in a button-up shirt and tie speaking in front of a window, discussing the topic of electroshock as brain trauma.

https://www.brighteon.com/7f485d27-788a-434b-8c8a-84a5dbf82bf1

“Electroshock convulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment, “works” by passing an electric current through one or both frontal lobes of the brain, causing an electrical lobotomy. The electricity also passes through the memory centers of the temporal lobe, causing additional devastation. Finally, the current scatters throughout the brain and that, along with a very severe seizure, produces more widespread harm. For additional free information see http://www.ECTresources.org or read Dr. Breggin’s medical book, Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Role of the FDA, Second Edition (2008). https://breggin.com/brain-disabling-treatments-in-psychiatry/“

Brochure on ECT, from Dr. Peter Breggin, June 8, 2013:

A dramatic sky with a lightning bolt striking down towards a barren tree, symbolizing themes of shock treatment and mental health.

Paid Propaganda Propping Up Psychiatry

I noticed while researching Electroshock online that there are several articles promoting this brain-damaging violation of human bodies and human rights despite its harms, including slick infomercials from “experiencers” who claim it helped end or manage their depression–while news reports and video documentaries detail the horrific brain damage and memory loss from ElectroConvulsions (ECT) suffered by many. Are there planted “experiencers” in mental health communities then who are paid by Pharma and Psychiatry to prop up psychiatry? And the answer there, it has been proved to me, is Yes. In my 3 wrongful holds at 5 psychiatric wards and hospitals in Boston and Massachusetts from 2022 to 2026, in Police-Run Mental Health Fraud–on which I will continue to write, to expose these crimes–I noticed there were several people at these wards and hospitals who not merely were not in any way likely to be called “mentally ill” by anyone (another group being wrongfully force-hospitalized) but who were actively acting, or feigning mental illness: Is their purpose to act as spies or accomplices of Police-Run Mental Health Fraud, or incipient experiencers, to be suddenly endowed credibility with “lived experience” or both? Are they being paid to break into mental hospitals and interact with psychiatry so as to become false promoters online and in books of dangerous psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists, and psychiatry itself? Are they being propped up by Big Pharma or affiliated organizations?

This also brings up the issue of the News Media being propped up by Pharma and Biotech, the FDA and CDC being propped up by Big Pharma and Biotech, and the great dangers of laws being passed and Congress also propping up Pharma and Biotech, at the expense of the public, and Increased Socio-Political, Life Repression being visited on our children and grandchildren–who will increasingly (in larger numbers) be labeled mentally ill, with any number of false DSM-disorders, and subjected to forced psychiatry: forced-medication with dangerous psychiatric drugs, life-depriving forced hospitalizations, and forced dangerous procedures such as electroshock, forced brain stimulation, forced restraints and seclusion, forced ingestible drug-sensors, and forced injectable nanobioelectronics to replace neurons, and forced BCI-CBI implants, if we do not wake up to the fact of Industry–the Drug Industry, Medical Device Industry, Nanotech Industry, Biotech Industry, Neurotech Industry–running Psychiatry and its Multiple Mythologies, as well as running the FDA, the CDC, the News Media, and take proper lawful action, in Law and Journalism and Public Comment and Activism, Writing, Speaking, Podcasting, Publishing, to stop it.

Note in this context that Behavioral Health and Mental Health funding and programs have exploded nationwide in all states now, have especially been accelerated by the Biden-Harris Administration, as reported here in several Psych-BH-MH Watch articles earlier; that dangerous, Label-Intending Behavioral Health Screening and Mental Health Screening has been creeping into our schools, colleges, and workplaces; that Police-Run Mental Health Fraud has been massively facilitated in all police departments nationwide with increased “Crisis Intervention” and “Crisis Care” programs being funded; that Police and Justice grants now include funding for Mental Health Court programs; that forced hospitalization by police is bringing back the institutionalizing of people which was delimited in the ’70s; that “Continuing Care” and Community Psychiatry programs for post-hospital control of people have been rolled out; and that various Acts (national) and Treaties (international) seek to remove people’s rights completely by attaching Behavioral Health and Mental Health labels while attempting the roll-out of Forced Psychiatry and Forced, Non-Consented Use in Human Experimentation projects (as the Oveido Convention, for instance attempts), a matter brought to public awareness by the recent European PACE/Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe’s rejection of Forced Psychiatry (links above, under Coercive Psychiatry).

Meanwhile, military, intelligence, Security, and Justice agencies run covert human experimentation and field weapons-testing programs–as revealed currently–using invisible electromagnetic weaponry inclusive of neuroweaponry, sound, and thermal weaponry through-wall, also termed “behavioral effect weapons”, and freely manufacture symptoms attributed to DSM-mental-illness, such as depression, insomnia, false-idea-implantation et al, while also invoking physical illnesses, sending people wrongfully to doctors and psychiatrists.

Claims of increasing mental illness nationwide can be observed widely in Media now, and are being cited in market report projections for the national and global “Electroconvulsive Machine Market” as noted above; this is becoming like “Global Warming”; the Globalist Industry Cabal appears to be setting up to manufacture Mental Illness widely and Repression with Techno Lobotomies widely, which cannot be permitted–they need to be stopped.

–Ramola D, 9/24/2026, 12:02 pm.

False and Misleading “Advertising” by Psychiatric Groups: A Contributing Factor in Negligence and Harm? , A Report, with much information, CCHR International

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