CCHR
CCHR - the Citizens Commission on Human Rights - is an anti-psychiatry Scientology front group.
CCHR in the News
Date |
Title | Blurb | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 20, 2005 | Scientologists' New Psych-Out Museum | Scientology is taking its fight against psychiatry to the streets - namely Sunset Boulevard. The church will open a "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" museum next month in L.A., complete with vintage instruments of torture, images of electroshock therapy and "rare archival footage of psychiatry's brutal treatments." | CCHR, Los Angeles, Press, psychiatry |
| April 16, 2005 | This Bill Isn't Mentally Healthy | Sen. Victor Crist has introduced one of the worst bills of the session. It would keep students from getting psychiatric treatment even when they need it. The bill is backed by an arm of the Church of Scientology called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, and Scientologists have never been shy about their opposition to psychiatry or any mental health services. | CCHR, obstructing psychiatry, Press, Scientology and Society |
| April 14, 2005 | Scientology Group Behind Attack On Mental Health Medicine | CCHR is supporting two bills being considered by the Florida House that seek to further roll back the clock on the recognition and treatment of mental illnesses. In House Bills 209 and 909, unnecessary and unproductive requirements are placed on schools and the departments of Children & Families and Juvenile Justice that will make the identification and referral of children with mental illnesses more difficult. | CCHR, Press, psychiatry, Scientology and Society |
| December 5, 2003 | Anti-Psychiatry Display Is Ordered Removed | The State of Illinois ordered a group that is an offshoot of the Church of Scientology to remove a display condemning psychiatry from a state office building. The group erected the display with state permission, but was asked to dismantle it after people complained that it spread misinformation and violated the separation between church and state, officials said. | CCHR, Chicago, Press |
| October 10, 2001 | Citizens Commission on Human Rights Reports Stigmatizing 'ADHD' And Stimulant Drugs Ousts Recruits From Armed Services | PRNewswire (press release): Citizens Commission on Human Rights Reports Stigmatizing 'ADHD' And Stimulant Drugs Ousts Recruits From Armed Services | CCHR |
| March 5, 2001 | (article On CCHR And Novartis) | San Diego Union Tribune: (article On CCHR And Novartis) | CCHR |