To state the obvious, psychiatric “care†is not supposed to kill patients, and no one expects patients to die in psychiatric hospitals. Yet this is what quietly happens under the watchful eye of psychiatrists every day in psychiatric institutions around the world.
Restraint “procedures†are the most visible evidence of the barbaric practices that psychiatrists choose to call therapy or treatment. Such psychiatric brutality does not soften, as human compassion would deem appropriate, even for the sake of youth or elderly.
Download and read the free CCHR booklet Deadly Restraints — Psychiatry’s “Therapeutic†Assault — Report and recommendations on the violent and dangerous use of restraints in mental health facilities.Psychiatric restraint procedures, and all other psychiatric procedures for that matter, qualify as “assault and battery†in every respect except one; they are lawful. Psychiatry has placed itself above the law, from where it can assault and batter its unfortunate victims with a complete lack of accountability, all in the name of “treatment.â€