Also recognized were Carolyn Steinke, president of American Parents Involved in Education, a grassroots group working to end psychiatry’s and psychology’s destructive influence in education and to return education to proper academic standards, and Fred Baughman Jr., M.D., a pediatrician and neurologist who has educated parents, teachers and others about the harmful effects of psychiatric labeling and drugging of schoolchildren.
The final award went to Dr. Ziba Jiyane, member of parliament in South Africa, for his role in getting the Health Minister to establish a committee of inquiry to investigate conditions in psychiatric institutions established under the now-ousted apartheid government.
In his acceptance speech, Dr. Jiyane said, “As a person who has struggled against the evil system of apartheid, I knew that the liberation of black persons in South Africa was not enough. So, when I became aware of the abuses in the mental health hospitals, I recognized the same propensity for one group to deny basic human rights to another.”
When the committee of inquiry published its report in February 1996, it noted that under psychiatric “care,” blacks were “being treated as subhuman ... [and] made to bear conditions from which we protect even the worst criminals in society.”
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