Organisation: Citizens Commission on Human Rights

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Psychiatrists group warns to be cautious of information in leaflet on antipsychotic medicines

People are being warned to be cautious of information on mental health being distributed by a Scientology-linked group.

ADHD is not a mental illness, just junk science for commercial gains

ADHD based on junk science that reclassifies childhood behaviour

Link between psychiatric drugs and violence cannot be ignored

We pathologise normal behaviour

We’ve turned classrooms into labs

The ADHD label has become too common. While blinding us with science, or, in the case of psychiatry, pseudo-science, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD could describe any child’s behaviour in school.

Mon, 02 Dec, 2013

Beware psychiatrists’ advice on ADHD

If an idea goes unchallenged, it eventually becomes accepted as fact, even if there’s no evidence to support the idea being pushed.

Wed, 13 Nov, 2013

A hidden agenda?

I read Brian Daniels’ letter (‘Psychiatry doesn’t deserve its status’ on Tuesday).

Fri, 29 Mar, 2013

Psychiatry doesn’t deserve its status

Psychiatrists want to be viewed on a par with medical professionals but their practice of redefining life’s problems as so-called ‘mental disorders’ has resulted in them and their profession being held up to ridicule.

Tue, 26 Mar, 2013