by CCHR CO | Jun 19, 2021 | General News
More than 175 years after its founding, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued a public apology in January for psychiatry’s “role in perpetrating structural racism” and said it hoped to make amends. Here’s a suggestion to the APA: repudiate and...
by CCHR CO | May 17, 2021 | General News
All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles and goals of Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). In 2017, Dr. Dainius Pūras, the...
by CCHR CO | May 5, 2021 | General News
With studies showing that an average of 6% to 10% of psychiatrists and psychologists sexually abuse their patients, including children young as 3 years old, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is encouraging victims of sexual abuse by mental health...
by CCHR CO | Feb 18, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Two Colorado psychiatrists had their licenses put on five years’ probation by the Colorado Medical Board for unprofessional conduct under the state Medical Practice Act. The disciplinary action taken against psychiatrist Thomas William Starkey, Jr., of Denver, is the...
by CCHR CO | Jan 23, 2021 | General News
The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism understates psychiatry’s racial human rights abuses and its long history of instigating racism by providing “rationales” that justified and perpetuated it. Over the last...
by CCHR CO | Jan 12, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Police officers arriving at a Colorado Springs psychiatric facility Saturday night in response to a report of juvenile runaways were asked by staff to help them gain control of the facility from “rioting” patients who were “overtaking” them. Officers were initially...
