April 11, 2009

NEW YORK – "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death," a traveling exhibit which has shocked public and experts alike with its graphic depiction of historical and current horrors including the drugging of 10 million schoolchildren in America, the continued administration of electroshock in America, and rampant fraud in psychiatric diagnosis and "treatment," opens officially in NY with a ribbon-cutting, April 14th.

The exhibit includes 14 video panels of sometimes gut-wrenching historical footage, documentation, and testimony from medical doctors, human rights experts, law enforcement officials, and victims of psychiatric brutality.

The documentation is exhaustive, from the origins of psychiatry in the 1770s, where locking up "lunatics" became a lucrative way to cash in on human misery; to the psychiatric theory of eugenics, which justified not only the Holocaust, but racism in America, South Africa and elsewhere. Another panel shows the abuse of Soviet dissenters whose "search for justice" was defined as a mental disorder to justify their imprisonment, and still another shows how false diagnosis of mental illness is used to bilk billions out of governments and public alike.

The exhibit is free and will be open to the public, 11 am until 7 pm, at 230 Fifth Ave., at 27th Street, in Suite 300, Monday-Saturday, until the end of June.

It is mounted by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Syracuse University of New York Health Science Center.

Scheduled to speak at the 14 April event are experts on the drugging of school children, electroshock treatment, and current deadly psychiatric treatment at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.

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