Released on = May 13, 2007, 12:38 pm

Press Release Author = Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Industry = Pharmaceuticals

Press Release Summary = Claims there is no scientific evidence proving any of
psychiatry's claims

Press Release Body = The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is protesting what is
being called "mental health week", calling it merely another avenue for
psychiatrists to procure more individuals to label and drug for profit.

To demonstrate the unscientific and profit driven motive for any mental health
screening, the CCHR has released a riveting video documentary which exposes the
psychiatric industry as a pseudo-science and a fraud.

The video which was made available worldwide recently, has now been sent, as a
public service, to all members of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly in an
attempt to focus their attention on the real damage caused by psychiatric practices
and to influence them to reconsider any thoughts of funding the industry in the
future. It has also been sent to members of the B.C law Society and various other
legal professionals.

Through rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews with more than 160
doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry
and its abuses, the riveting documentary 'Psychiatry An Industry of Death' blazes
the bright light of truth on the brutal pseudo science and the multibillion dollar
fraud that is psychiatry.

The psychiatric profession purports to be the sole arbiter on the subject of mental
health and "diseases\" of the mind. However, psychiatric "disorders" are not medical
diseases and psychiatrists admit in their own literature that they have no idea of
how the mind works

Leading psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric Association, Canadian
Psychiatric Association and U.S. National Institute of Mental Health admit that
psychiatrists do not know the causes or cures for any problem with the mind or what
their \"treatments\" specifically do to the patient. They have only theories and
conflicting opinions about the diagnoses and methods, and are lacking any scientific
basis for these. As a past president of the World Psychiatric Association stated,
\"The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is
gone. In the future, the mentally ill have to learn to live with their illness.\"

One prevailing psychiatric theory (key to psychotropic drug sales) is that problems
of the mind result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. As with its other
theories, there is no biological or other evidence to prove this. Representative of
a large group of medical and biochemistry experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author
of Blaming the Brain says: "There are no tests available for assessing the chemical
status of a living person\'s brain.\"

Brian Beaumont, president of the Vancouver chapter of CCHR says "People do
experience problems and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles, sometimes
very serious. But to represent that these troubles are caused by incurable \"brain
diseases\" that can only be alleviated with dangerous pills is dishonest, harmful and
often deadly. Such drugs are often more potent than a narcotic and capable of
driving one to violence or suicide. They mask the real cause of problems in life and
debilitate the individual and thereby deny him or her opportunity for real recovery
and hope for the future."

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established in 1969 by the Church of
Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights, and to
clean up the field of mental healing.

Today, it has more than 130 chapters in over 31 countries. Its board of advisors,
called Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educators, artists, business
professionals, and civil and human rights representatives.

While it doesn\'t provide medical or legal advice, it works closely with and supports
medical doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus is psychiatry\'s fraudulent
use of subjective \"diagnoses\" that lack any scientific or medical merit, but which
are used to reap financial benefits in the billions, from Medical Services Plans and
ultimately taxpayers. Based on these false diagnoses, psychiatrists justify and
prescribe life-damaging treatments, including mind-altering drugs, which mask a
person\'s underlying difficulties and prevent his or her recovery.



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