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Florence Mall Exhibit Raises Awareness of the Danger of Electroshock and Other Harmful Psychiatric Practices
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit museum, details the barbaric truth about psychiatry.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), held the Industry of Death traveling Exhibition, recently in Florence, exposing the violations of human rights in the field of mental health to the unaware citizens of the city. This exhibit touched here after traveling all over the USA, Europe, South America and Canada.
The mission of the exhibit is to educate and inform and also bring practical guidance for lawmakers, doctors, human rights advocates and private citizens to take action to protect their rights and expose any abuse encountered. This popular self-guided tour includes documentaries and displays of psychiatry’s most harmful treatment devices.
Many people who toured the exhibition wrongly believed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is long gone and rarely used. As this “treatment” is still broadly used, CCHR denounces ECT as the outdated and brain-damaging procedure that it is.
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In addition to ECT documentation, the exhibit also exposes the danger of highly addictive drugs prescribed to patients, including children, whose side effects include violence and suicide.
The Kentucky Department of Education reports that suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth and young adults in Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), 15 percent of Kentucky high school students (1 in 7) reported having seriously considered suicide within a 12-month period, and 17.4 percent of Kentucky middle school students (nearly 1 in 5) reported that they had seriously considered killing themselves at some point in their lives. This corresponds with the danger of increased usage of psychotropic drugs among children.
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CCHR is a mental health watchdog founded in 1969 by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz and the Church of Scientology, to expose the violation of human rights in the field of mental health.
For more information, watch the CCHR documentaries at cchr.org or contact the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology of Cincinnati at 859-962-5080.