TAG / PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE

Despite 14 previous convictions, he operated unchecked under a false name before a safety complaint triggered a criminal investigation and a 40-month jail sentence.

The class action will examine how the psychiatric establishment enabled mind control torture that shattered patients’ lives without consent. Survivors say it’s the closest they will ever get to accountability.

Lawsuits, federal reports and firsthand accounts reveal a pattern of unlawful holds and severe medical neglect inside NeuroPsychiatric facilities. Officials documented the violations but failed to stop them.

Swedish research finds involuntary psychiatric commitment deadly, confirming patterns seen in the US.

Patients were restrained, verbally abused and locked in seclusion for weeks, prompting criminal charges and resignations. Welcome to psychiatric “care.”

Legislators call for stronger oversight after audit exposes widespread neglect, unanswered complaints and apparent efforts to conceal abuse in state hospitals.

Three former residents say they were assaulted as children and silenced by fear. Now, the psychiatric facility is using legal tactics to dodge accountability.

A state-licensed youth psychiatric facility is under fire after a three-year study found repeated abuses, high restraint rates and a string of broken promises to reform.

Almost 950 hours of surveillance footage and thousands of internal records reveal a regime of neglect, secrecy, and physical and sexual abuse in the Canadian province’s psychiatric hospitals.

From electroshock of five-year-olds to deaths in US for-profit hospitals, CCHR told the UN that psychiatry’s coercive practices amount to torture and must be banned worldwide.