CHILD DRUGGING Psychiatry Destroying Lives

Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth

Published by Citizens Commission on Human Rights Established in 1969 IMPORTANT NOTICE For the Reader

he psychiatric profession purports to be know the causes or cures for any mental disorder the sole arbiter on the subject of mental or what their “treatments” specifically do to the Thealth and “diseases” of the mind. The patient. They have only theories and conflicting facts, however, demonstrate otherwise: opinions about their diagnoses and methods, and are lacking any scientific basis for these. As a past 1. PSYCHIATRIC “DISORDERS” ARE NOT MEDICAL president of the World Psychiatric Association DISEASES. In medicine, strict criteria exist for stated, “The time when psychiatrists considered calling a condition a disease: a predictable group that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In of symptoms and the cause of the symptoms or the future, the mentally ill have to learn to live an understanding of their physiology (function) with their illness.” must be proven and established. Chills and fever are symptoms. Malaria and typhoid are diseases. 4. THE THEORY THAT MENTAL DISORDERS Diseases are proven to exist by objective evidence DERIVE FROM A “CHEMICAL IMBALANCE” IN and physical tests. Yet, no mental “diseases” have THE BRAIN IS UNPROVEN OPINION, NOT FACT. ever been proven to medically exist. One prevailing psychiatric theory (key to psychotropic drug sales) is that mental disorders 2. PSYCHIATRISTS DEAL EXCLUSIVELY WITH result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. MENTAL “DISORDERS,” NOT PROVEN DISEASES. As with its other theories, there is no biological While mainstream physical medicine treats or other evidence to prove this. Representative diseases, psychiatry can only deal with of a large group of medical and biochemistry “disorders.” In the absence of a known cause or experts, Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., author of physiology, a group of symptoms seen in many Blaming the Brain says: “[T]here are no tests different patients is called a disorder or syndrome. available for assessing the chemical status of a Harvard Medical School’s Joseph Glenmullen, living person’s brain.” M.D., says that in psychiatry, “all of its diagnoses are merely syndromes [or disorders], clusters of 5. THE BRAIN IS NOT THE REAL CAUSE symptoms presumed to be related, not diseases.” OF LIFE’S PROBLEMS. People do experience As Dr. Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry problems and upsets in life that may result in emeritus, observes, “There is no blood or other mental troubles, sometimes very serious. But biological test to ascertain the presence or to represent that these troubles are caused by absence of a mental illness, as there is for most incurable “brain diseases” that can only be bodily diseases.” alleviated with dangerous pills is dishonest, harmful and often deadly. Such drugs are 3. PSYCHIATRY HAS NEVER ESTABLISHED THE often more potent than a narcotic and capable CAUSE OF ANY “MENTAL DISORDERS.” Leading of driving one to violence or suicide. They mask psychiatric agencies such as the World Psychiatric the real cause of problems in life and debilitate Association and the U.S. National Institute of the individual, so denying him or her the oppor- Mental Health admit that psychiatrists do not tunity for real recovery and hope for the future. CHILD DRUGGING PSYCHIATRY DESTROYING LIVES

CONTENTS Introduction: Betraying Our Children ...... 2

Chapter One: Dismantling Workable Education ...... 5

Chapter Two: Inventing Psychiatric ‘Diagnoses’ ...... 9

Chapter Three: Child Drug Pushing ...... 13

Chapter Four: Eradicating Right and Wrong ...... 17

Chapter Five: Children Cast Adrift ...... 21

Chapter Six: Taking Back Control ...... 25

Recommendations ...... 27

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International ...... 28

® CHILD DRUGGING Psychiatry Destroying Lives 1 INTRODUCTIONBetraying Our Children

ewspaper articles often trumpet because the reality and the labels may not the “wonders” of modern day reflect the same thing when it comes to psychi- psycho-pharmaceutical research atry’s “drugs of the moment.” for the treatment of childhood Reflect on several of the words and how learning and emotional “prob- they are used. Take “normal,” for example. You lems”N and “disabilities.” probably have your own idea of what a normal They sound reasonable. They sound con- sort of life is. Does it involve the consumption vincing—science again conquers our material of addictive, mind-altering and potentially dan- universe for the benefit of mankind. Who could gerous psychiatric drugs? Does it involve a possibly argue with total reliance on such making a normal life drugs to remain possible for those in normal? trouble? “Contrary to psychiatric What about the Daniel’s parents opinion, children are not ‘experimental word “medications?” would. And so would animals,’ they are human beings Does it ease your Cory’s. They would who have every right to protection, mind by conjuring argue vehemently and up images of some passionately. And care, love and the chance to reach their benign cough syrup with an estimated 17 full potential in life. They will only be prescribed by a kind- million school chil- denied this by psychiatry’s verbal ly family doctor? dren worldwide said Nothing could be fur- to have a mental dis- and chemical straitjackets.” ther from the truth. A order that requires — Jan Eastgate psychiatric medica- them to be chemically tion is a very power- restrained by power- ful addictive drug. ful mind-altering psychiatric drugs, they are Then there is the term “scientific,” often far from alone. used by psychiatry to add legitimacy to its pro- Who are Daniel and Cory and why do their nouncements. According to the World Book parents disagree? They are children who are Dictionary, the word implies “systematic; accu- not only unable to lead normal lives because of rate; exact.” Those characteristics have nothing so-called “miracle” drugs; they are tragically to do with psychiatry or, for that matter, its no longer with us at all, because of cousin, psychology. those drugs. Examples of other words which suffer I invite you to analyze the above illustration at their hands are “values,” “right,” “wrong,” more closely from the point of view of children, “safe,” even “education.”

INTRODUCTION Betraying Our Children 2 This is the subtle propaganda of the psychiatrist and psychologist at work—the redefinition of words. Somehow in their hands, things just seem to get all twisted about and eventually fall apart. The trouble is that their worldwide propa- ganda on the subject of children and education has thoroughly duped well-meaning parents, teachers and politicians alike, that “normal”— there’s that word again—childhood behavior is no longer normal; that it is a mental illness. And further, that only by continuous, heavy drugging from a very early age, can the “afflict- ed” child possibly make it through life’s worst. Who would have thought 40 years ago that we could have come to this? Nevertheless we are here, and the harsh reality is that because of it, precious young lives all over the world are at serious risk, permanently damaged, even lost to us. Contrary to psychiatric opinion, children are not “experimental animals,” they are human Children are our future. beings who have every right to expect protec- There is nothing less at stake here than our tion, care, love and the chance to reach their full very future itself. potential in life. They will only be denied this from within the verbal and chemical straitjackets Sincerely, that are psychiatry’s labels and drugs. We are publishing this report, Child Drugging—Psychiatry Destroying Lives, to expose the lies and propaganda at work, to provide a perspective and information not made readily available to parents and others concerned, Jan Eastgate and most importantly to help bring sanity and President control back to the care and nurturing of our Citizens Commission on children. Human Rights International

INTRODUCTION Betraying Our Children 3 IMPORTANT FACTS

In 1879, German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt declared Man to be an animal, with no soul. With this, he laid the foundation for modern 1 psychology and psychiatry. In the U.S. and elsewhere, strong and effective scholastic-based systems were compromised. Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike 2 said phonics, multiplication tables and formal writing were “wasteful.”

In the 1940s psychiatrists G. Brock Chisholm (Canada) and John Rawlings Rees (Britain), co-founders 3 of the World Federation for Mental Health, said, psychiatrists had carried out a “useful attack” on the “teaching profession” and that the goal of “effective” therapy was the elimination of the concept of “right and wrong.”

By the 1960s (and ever since), psychological programs were introduced into schools. 4 Psychiatrists claimed that three sources of stress had to be eliminated from schools: 1) school failure, 2) a curriculum centered around academics, and 3) disciplinary procedures.

Psychologists and psychiatrists have insinuated themselves into positions of authority in the 5 educational field and completed an almost total overthrow of the subject, turning schools from places of learning into “mental health clinics.” CHAPTERDismantling Workable ONE Education

een suicides have tripled since 1960 in To appreciate the current influence of psychiatric the United States. Today, suicide is the and psychological thinking and practice over the second leading cause of death (after car schools and families of the world, it is essential to accidents) for 15- to 24-year-olds. Since understand how their doctrines have achieved such the early 1990s, millions of children an iron grip on the field of education. The story begins Taround the world have taken prescribed antidepres- more than a century ago. sants that U.K. and U.S. authorities have now branded In 1879, German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt as suicidal agents. In September 2004, a U.S. founded “experimental psychology.” He declared Man Congressional hearing into these drugs found that not to be an animal, with no soul, that thought was merely only do studies show the drugs are ineffective in the result of brain activity and that “consciousness is of children, they can drive them to suicidal behavior no avail until these are derived from chemical and hostility.1 and physical processes.”2 Walk into an average [Emphasis added] British, Australian, Can- “[W]e have made a useful Key players who sub- adian or U. S. school or sequently implemented even some Mexican attack upon a number of professions. Wundt’s theories into edu- schools today, and you The two easiest of them naturally cation were: Edward Lee could be forgiven for are the teaching profession and Thorndike, John Dewey, thinking that you had James Earl Russell, James walked into a mental the Church.” Cattell and William James. health clinic, as kids line — John R. Rees, Co-Founder World Thorndike performed up for their daily stimu- Federation for Mental Health some of the earliest lant drug dosage. Look experiments in “animal closer and you will find a psychology.” Maintaining black market drug trade run by schoolchildren, deal- Wundt’s “man is an animal” view, he investigated ing in the very same drugs being prescribed for sup- the mechanisms of learning by studying not humans, posed learning difficulties. but chickens, rats and cats. In his 1929 book, After edging upwards for more than a century, Elementary Principles of Education, Thorndike stated: U.S. national Student Aptitude Test (SAT) scores have “Artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics, multipli- plummeted since 1963, when psychological programs cation tables, and formal writing movements, are and psychiatric drugs entered the classroom. In South used to a wasteful degree. Subjects such as arith- Africa, since the introduction of psychological curric- metic, language, and history include content that ula, school examination results for 1997 showed a is intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject national pass rate of only 47%, which was down from is enlarged unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal 1994’s rate of 58%. of thoroughness.”4

CHAPTER ONE Dismantling Workable Education 5 At the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Guidance Clinics in 1927, “...[T]he school should be Freud, with his emphasis on promiscuity and the focus of our attack.”7 immorality, bolstered the “man is an animal” And attacked it was. view. Despite the appalling lack of scientific foun- Sixty years later, in a report to the U.S. Secretary dation, his theories—many made under the influ- of Education, the National Commission on Ex- ence of cocaine and now largely discredited—had cellence in Education stated, “If an unfriendly power an enormous impact in many countries. Educator had attempted to impose on America the mediocre and author Beverly Eakman points out, “Freudian educational performance that exists today, we might psychology...runs through the Mental Hygiene and well have viewed it as an act of war.” New Education movements.”5 What the Commission did not realize was that an Later, influential figures like Thorndike made attack on the school system had been launched and their intentions clear: “It will, of course, be under- was still in operation. Proclaiming the strategic objec- stood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every tives of global psychiatry before Britain’s National advance in the sciences of human nature will con- Council of Mental Hygiene in 1940, psychiatrist John tribute to our success in controlling human R. Rees, who would soon after co-found the World nature. …”6 Federation for Mental One of these “Most people today suspect that Health (WFMH), left no “advances” was called education is not really about literacy, doubt that he and his “Whole Word,” a “read- peers had their sights set ing” program devel- ‘basics,’ or proficiency at anything. What on education: “[W]e have oped by James Cattell, is less well understood is that there exists... made a useful attack who had been Wundt’s throughout the industrialized world, what upon a number of profes- assistant for three years can best be described as an ‘illiteracy sions. The two easiest of and became the presi- them naturally are the dent of the American cartel’ — ostensibly aimed at teaching profession and the Psychological Asso- furthering ‘mental health.’” Church; the two most dif- ciation. Phonics were ficult are law and medi- ignored, and children — Beverly Eakman, author, educator cine.”8 [Emphasis added] were forced to memo- Another WFMH co- rize nearly every word without understanding the founder, psychiatrist G. Brock Chisholm, furthered logical sequence of letters or sounds. the attack by using schools to eliminate morals: “The training of children is making a thousand neurotics Using Schools to Create for every one that psychiatry can hope to help with a Mental Health State psychotherapy,” he said in 1945. “We have swal- Clifford Beers, a former psychiatric patient, lowed all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by formed the National Committee on Mental Hygiene our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers.... If in the United Kingdom in 1909. The Committee’s the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of “Program for the Prevention of Delinquency” helped good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the create “child guidance clinics” (psychiatric counsel- original responsibility.”9 ing) around the globe; it was the driving force behind At a WFMH inaugural conference, psychiatrists the entry of mental hygiene concepts into schools. identified the family unit, long the primary stabiliz- “If we are going to prevent dependency, delinquency, ing influence of society, as a target for direct assault: insanity, and general inadequacy,” wrote Ralph “The family is now one of the major obstacles to Truitt, the head of the Committee’s Division of Child improved mental health, and hence should be

CHAPTER ONE Dismantling Workable Education 6 A History of Betrayal: Subversion of Education weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and sychiatrists and psychologists in the last cen- especially children from the coercion of family life.”10 tury opened the door to chaos in the class- In the 1960s and ’70s, psychological programs Proom by undermining morality and self- known collectively as Outcome Based Education respect, relegating schools to testing grounds for (OBE) were introduced into schools. Psychiatrists perverse theories and treating children as animals and psychologists, who directed the philosophy of to be trained and conditioned. OBE, claimed that three sources of stress had to be EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE,animal psychologist, eliminated from schools: 1) school failure 2) a experimented on monkeys, rats, cats, mice, chickens curriculum centered around academics and 3) dis- and other animals, then applied his techniques to Edward Thorndike ciplinary procedures. School failure was the chief children. He stated, “It will of course, be understood villain, they said, leading to “feelings of inferiori- that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every ty,” behavior problems like truancy and an advance in the sciences of human nature will con- unsocial attitude.11 tribute to our success in controlling human nature.” Arm in arm, psychology and psychiatry set the PAUL SCHRODER, professor of psychiatry, stage for the collapse of education at a profit to addressed the first conference of the German them. In 1962, they received nearly a billion dollars Society for Child Psychiatry and Therapeutic in the United States alone for their role in education. Education in 1940, attended by the elite of Nazi By 2002, funds channeled to them through psychiatry, and proclaimed: “Child psychiatry has G. Brock Chisholm “special education” for psychiatrist-defined to ... help to integrate (hereditarily) damaged or “learning disabilities” had reached $28 billion. inadequate children for their own and the public’s However, the U.S. Department of Education found good into the community and the general eco- that 40% of the children being spuriously labeled nomic process” and recognize the early existence with these “disorders” had simply never been of a disorder and potential harm to society.13 taught to read. J.R. REES, co-founder of the World Federation Preaching their false and disturbing creed, the for Mental Health (WFMH), spoke of psychiatry new “behaviorists” have successfully insinuated permeating every education activity and boasted themselves into positions of authority in schools that it had made a “useful attack” upon the “teach- John Dewey and completed an almost total overthrow of educa- ing profession” for the purpose of promoting “our tion. As a result, our once strong and effective particular point of view.” scholastic-based systems have been seriously com- G. BROCK CHISHOLM,co-founder of the promised, and with them, the impressive results of WFMH, said, “If the race is to be freed from its crip- better years. pling burden of good and evil it must be psychia- Author and educator Beverly Eakman states, trists who take the original responsibility.” “Most people today suspect that education is not JOHN DEWEY, psychologist and promoter of really about literacy, ‘basics,’ or proficiency at the “man is an animal” theory, labeled the urge to anything. What is less well understood is that there teach children to read early in life a “perversion,” G. Stanley Hall exists in this country, and indeed throughout the and advocated that schools should take on the industrialized world, what can best be described as role of social, rather than academic, institutions. an ‘Illiteracy Cartel’—ostensibly aimed at furthering G. STANLEY HALL, first president of the American Psychological ‘mental health.’ This cartel derives its power from Association, explained education for the masses was not necessary. “We must those who stand to benefit financially and politically overcome the fetishism of the alphabet, of the multiplication tables, of gram- from ignorance and educational malpractice; from mar,” he said. “It would be no serious loss if a child never learned to read.” the frustration, the crime, the joblessness and social JAMES CATTELL, a later American Psychological Association president, chaos that mis-education produces.”12 theorized that “little is gained by teaching a child sounds and letters as the first step to being able to read.” His “whole word” reading method proved to be disastrous, crashing literacy rates everywhere it was used. MANFRED MÜLLER-KÜPPERS, of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, asserted in the 1970s that there should be “no pro- visions for school attendance without child psychiatric examinations.”14 The influence is still prevalent. In 2003, psychiatrists and psychologists advised a U.S. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to recommend, “[T]he early detection of mental health problems in [school] children … through routine and comprehensive testing and screening.” IMPORTANT FACTS

In 1865, Zurich psychiatrist Wilhelm Griesinger falsely claimed that all mental problems must be diseases of the brain. Undeterred 1 by the absence of proof to this day, psychiatry built a multi-billion dollar empire on this false science.

In the late 1800s, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was first to label and codify human behavior as “disorders” while 2 acknowledging that psychiatry had no effective treatments or cures.

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic & 3 Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contained only three “disorders” for infants or children. By 1980, there was a nearly ten-fold increase in the number of child disorders.

In 1987, “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD) was literally voted into existence 4 by APA committee members and enshrined in the DSM. Within a year, 500,000 children in America alone were diagnosed with it.

17 million schoolchildren worldwide have now been 5 diagnosed with so-called mental disorders and prescribed cocaine- like stimulants and powerful anti- depressants as treatment.

The creation of bogus learning disorders as listed in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) enables psychiatrists to label and drug millions of children at great profit. CHAPTERInventing Psychiatric TWO ‘Diagnoses’

ntil the 1800s, the notion of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) “lunatic” being sick was a foreign admitted, “We do not know the causes [of any mental one. He was strange in his illness]. We don’t have methods of ‘curing’ these ill- behavior, perhaps destructive, but nesses yet.”16 [Emphasis added] explanations as to why did not Since Kraepelin, the number of psychiatric Unecessarily center on a physical malfunction. condemnations of human behavior has In 1865, however, Zurich psychiatrist steadily expanded. Today, they are codified Wilhelm Griesinger claimed that since most of in the American Psychiatric Association’s the nerve coverage was in the brain, all mental (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of problems must be dis- Mental Disorders (DSM) eases of the brain. and the International Undeterred by the “The empire of child psychiatry was Classification of Diseases absence of proof to (ICD), mental disorders this day, psychiatry erected on a moral fault line, namely, section. First published has since industrious- the assumption that ‘juvenile in 1952 with a list ly built a multi-billion delinquency’ is a disease that the child of 112 maladies, the dollar empire with no 1994 issue of DSM-IV more than an empty psychiatrist is especially qualified to specifies more than 370 deck of cards. diagnose and treat. But delinquency disorders.17 is not a disease, like diabetes…. It is In 1987, “Attention Smoke and Deficit Hyperactivity Mirrors simply an invidious, incapacitating status Disorder” (ADHD) was Successfully mas- ascribed to a misbehaving minor.” literally voted into exis- querading as a sci- tence by a show of — Thomas Szasz, ence requires that hands of APA commit- certain appearances Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus tee members and be maintained. It was enshrined in DSM-III-R. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, a Wundt Within one year, 500,000 children in the United student, who first devised a system of codifica- States alone were diagnosed with this.18 tion of human behavior, while simultaneously Today, the number of American children being acknowledging that psychiatry had no effective labeled as having “ADHD” has risen alarmingly treatments or cures for most psychiatric disorders.15 to 6 million. [Emphasis added] Internationally, the number of children Over a century later, things haven’t changed. diagnosed with ADHD, also called hyperkinet- In 1995, Rex Cowdry, then-director of the U.S. ic disorder in Europe, or deficits in attention,

CHAPTER TWO Inventing Psychiatric ‘Diagnoses’ 9 Numerous books show that health and educational problems alone can cause attention and behavioral problems, thereby discrediting the “A DHD” learning disorder monopoly.

motor control and report on mental perception (DAMP) health said that the has been skyrock- “ADHD is not like diabetes and “exact etiology (cause) eting since the Ritalin is not like insulin. Diabetes is of ADHD” is still 1990s. Between 1989 “unknown.” and 1996, France a real medical condition that can be Dr. Louria Shulamit, experienced a 600% a family practitioner in increase in the objectively diagnosed. ADHD is an Israel, says, “ADHD is number of children invented label with no objective, a syndrome, not a dis- labeled “hyper- ease (by definition). active.” valid means of identification.” As such, it is diag- Symptoms of nosed by symptoms. ADHD include: — Dr. Mary Ann Block, author of The symptoms of this fails to give close No More ADHD syndrome are so attention to details common that we can or may make care- conclude that all chil- less mistakes in schoolwork or other tasks; dren—especially boys—fit this diagnosis.”19 work is often messy or careless; has difficulty In 2002, Assistant Professor Eva Karfve, a sustaining attention in tasks or play activities; Swedish sociologist and author, disputed any fails to complete schoolwork, chores or other validity to this disorder: “The claim that duties; often fidgets with hands or feet or ADHD is biologically caused or stems from a squirms in seat; often runs about, climbs or metabolic disturbance in the brain is not scien- talks excessively and interrupts or intrudes on tifically founded in any way.” others (e.g., butts into conversations or Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Jr., a pediatric games). In 1999, the U.S. Surgeon General’s neurologist, says that “the frequency with which

CHAPTER TWO Inventing Psychiatric ‘Diagnoses’ 10 “‘Biological psychiatry’ has yet to validate a single psychiatric condition/diagnosis as in abnormality/ disease or as anything ‘neurological,’ ‘biological,’ ‘chemically imbalanced’ or ‘genetic.’”

— Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Jr., Pediatric Neurologist, 2002

‘learning disorders’ and ‘ADHD’ are diagnosed game?’ Eight hours straight. ‘What about read- in schools is proportional to the presence ing books?’ From the beginning to end—the and influence within the schools of mind/brain ones he liked. He also played full games of bas- behavioral diagnosticians, testers and therapists.” ketball. So it appeared to me that he could pay Today, American schools spend at least $1 attention to anything that he was interested in.”21 billion a year on psychologists who work Tana Dineen, a Canadian psychologist and full-time to diagnose students.20 Annually, $15 author of Manufacturing Victims, says psycholo- billion has been spent on the diagnosis, treat- gy is neither a science nor a profession, but an ment and study of these so-called “disorders.” industry that turns healthy people into victims The sales of stimulants alone to control the to give itself a constant source of income.22 In symptoms of ADHD have now reached $1.3 the 2001 revision of her book, she added, “The billion annually. Psychology Industry is not concerned about, Fred Shaw, Jr., a former Los Angeles deputy and would prefer to overlook, the damage sheriff who now runs several California group it wreaks not only on users but also on society homes for boys (alternatives to prison), tells as a whole.”23 this story: “A boy was brought to the home, Having infiltrated and secured positions of diagnosed as ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] trust and authority within the education by a psychologist. I asked the young man some system, and set the scene for a patterned questions: ‘What’s the longest you’ve ever onslaught of psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry talked with a girl on the phone?’ Three to five unleashed its next, most dangerous and most hours. ‘Do you remember what she said?’ Yes, lucrative weapons on our youth—addictive, quite well. ‘How long can you play a video psychotropic drugs posing as medication.

“The Psychology Industry is not concerned about, and would prefer to overlook, the damage it wreaks not only on users but also on society as a whole.”

— Tana Dineen, psychologist and author, Manufacturing Victims, 2001

CHAPTER TWO Inventing Psychiatric ‘Diagnoses’ 11 IMPORTANT FACTS

Psychiatrists theorize that mental problems stem from a “chemical imbalance” in the brain or are 1 the result of a “neurobiological disorder” to justify the administration of powerful mind-altering drugs.

Children have been diagnosed with “chemical imbalances” despite the fact that no test exists to support 2 such a claim and there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance looks like.

With millions of children fraudulently labeled with ”ADHD,” psychiatrists are creating a 3 generation of drug addicts. The manufacturer of one stimulant prescribed for “ADHD” admits it is a drug of dependency.

Millions of children and adolescents are also taking antidepressants that British, Australian, European and 4 U.S. drug regulatory agencies have warned can cause suicide.

The rise in gratuitous and murderous violence amongst youth 5 is linked to the introduction of and increases in violence-inducing drugs being prescribed to them.

Matthew Smith was forced by his school to take a psychiatric stimulant to help him “focus” better. However, in 2000, at age 14, he died of a heart attack that a coroner attributed to the prescribed stimulant. More and more children are being diagnosed with ADHD, a “disease” that has never been clinically proven to exist. Widespread marketing has been partly responsible for the increase. CHAPTERChild Drug THREE Pushing

hen James was first diagnosed Matthew, 13, prescribed a stimulant and died of with attention deficit disorder, cardiomyopathy [disease of heart muscle]; his mother refused to put him Macauley, 7, prescribed a stimulant and three other on psychiatric drugs and trans- psychiatric drugs, suffered a cardiac arrest; Travis, ferred him to another school. 13, prescribed a stimulant and suffered cardiomy- WJames’ records followed him, however, and coun- opathy; Randy, 9, given a stimulant and several selors at the new school urged a psychological other drugs and died from cardiac arrest; Cameron, evaluation be done. Diagnosis: ADD. Treatment: 12, prescribed a stimulant and died from hyper- psychiatric drugs. eosinophilic syndrome [abnormal increase in white Matters soon deteriorated. “At school, my boy blood cells]. This is a high price to pay for the ‘treat- was labeled, drugged ment’ of a ‘disease’ that and almost died,” his does not exist.” mother said. Three days after being put on the “With no abnormality in the The Hoax of drug she received an ‘A DHD child,’ the pseudo-medical “Chemical urgent call from the label is nothing but stigmatizing, and Imbalance” school that her son was Through massive having severe chest the unwarranted drug treatment that promotion and market- pains and had to be invariably follows, a physical assault. ing campaigns, psychi- rushed to the hospital. The ‘medication’ typically prescribed atric drugs are increas- The doctors told her it for ADHD and ‘learning disorders’ ingly prescribed as was a reaction to the the panacea for life’s drug. When she stopped is a hazardous and addictive inevitable crises and giving her son pills, the amphetamine-like drug.” challenges. danger passed.24 Psychiatry’s most James was lucky. — Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Jr., recent campaign is the Millions of children Pediatric Neurologist, 2002 theory that all mental around the world just problems stem from a like him are not. “chemical imbalance” Dr. Baughman reports: “The following children in the brain, or “neurobiological disorder.” are no longer hyperactive or inattentive—they are Psychiatrist David Kaiser is unequivocal dead. Between 1994 and 2001, I was consulted, about the lie of neurobiological disorder: medically or legally, formally or informally, in the “Modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly following death cases: Stephanie, 11, prescribed a prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single stimulant and died of cardiac arrhythmia; mental illness…. Patients [have] been diagnosed

CHAPTER THREE Child Drug Pushing 13 with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that potent than cocaine, children crush the tablets no test exists to support such a claim, and...there and snort it. “Quite a few have tried it. Most of is no real conception of what a correct chemical the lads (boys) ‘bomb’ it by smoking it, some mix balance would look like.”25 it up with glucose and snort it,” Simon, a 14-year- In 2001, Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D., author of Rape old New Zealand student said.30 In Britain, of the Soul: How the Chemical Imbalance Model children as young as six are becoming hooked of Modern Psychiatry Has Failed Its Patients, said, on a psychoactive stimulant sold illegally by “As with all other mental disorders, there is child dealers.31 no biological test or biological marker for Worldwide production of methylphenidate ADHD.” He cites the U.S. National Institutes of increased from 2.8 tons in 1990 to 15.3 tons in Health Consensus Conference on ADHD that 1997. In Mexico, sales of this stimulant rose 800% concluded, “As with all other emotional between 1993 and 2001. disorders, however, researchers have vigorously Australia reports a stimulant prescription rate attempted to find proof for children increasing that ADHD is caused 34-fold in the past two by a chemical imbal- decades. Some 250,000 ance, but have come up “A s w ith all other emotional prescriptions for dex- with nothing.”26 amphetamine, which When this idea of a disorders, however, researchers outsells Ritalin, were “chemical imbalance” have vigorously attempted to find written in 2003.32 In is successfully used to 2002, the Council of secure the cooperation proof that ADHD is caused by a Europe Parliamentary of unwitting parents, it chemical imbalance, but have Assembly said the establishes a dangerous highest rates of precedent. “These chil- come up with nothing.” methylphenidate con- dren believe they have sumption in Europe something wrong with —Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D., were in Switzerland, their brains that makes author of Rape of the Soul Iceland, the Nether- it impossible for them lands, the United to control themselves Kingdom, Germany, without using a pill,” Belgium and Luxem- says Dr. Baughman.27 burg. In Britain the stimulant prescription rate for By “pill” of course is meant hazardous and children soared 9,200% between 1992 and 2000.33 addictive amphetamine-like stimulants or antide- Afurther 1.5 million children and adolescents pressants like Selective Serotonin Reuptake are taking SSRI antidepressants in the United Inhibitors (SSRIs). States.34 In Canada, the number of girls aged 15 to With millions of children fraudulently 18 taking antidepressants almost doubled labeled with “ADHD,” psychiatrists are creating between 1998 and 2002.35 In Britain, the number a generation of drug addicts. The manufacturer of of prescriptions for antidepressants has also more methylphenidate (Ritalin) admits it is a drug of than doubled in 10 years.36 dependency.28 And addictive drugs spawn a cul- In today’s school in Queensland, Australia, ture of drug dealing and abuse. Ritalin and other schoolchildren no longer line up for milk, but stimulants are now sold illicitly in schools in queue for drugs to control their “behavior prob- numerous countries for $2 to $10 a pill.29 More lems.” Teachers spend their days dispensing

CHAPTER THREE Child Drug Pushing 14 INSIDE LOOK The Myth of Chemical Imbalance

s presented in countless illustrations in psychiatric Aand medical journals, the brain has been dissected, its parts labeled and analyzed, while the public has been assaulted with the latest psychiatric theories of how the physical and chemical composi- tion of the brain determines behav- ior, mental disorders or disabilities. What is missing, in all this, is scientific fact.

“[T]here are no tests available for assessing the chemical status of a living person’s brain.” Also, no “biological, anatomical or functional signs have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental patients. “

— Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., Biopsychologist

“medication.”37 It is not a job that they enjoy. Disaster, said that the current use of drugs As one teacher remarked, “As an early like Ritalin is taking “appalling risks” with a childhood teacher it breaks my heart to have to generation of kids. The drug is given, he said, for administer [these drugs] to children as young as “short-term control of behavior—not to reduce three and then to see them spend their day in a any identifiable hazard to [children’s] health. zombie-like state.”38 Such large-scale chemical control of human The results for children have been behavior has not been previously undertaken catastrophic. in our society outside of nursing homes and Thomas Moore, author of Prescriptions for mental institutions.”39

CHAPTER THREE Child Drug Pushing 15 IMPORTANT FACTS

The psychological program “values clarification” emerged from Germany and was introduced into U.S. classrooms in the 1960s under 1 various names, including Outcome Based Education (OBE).

At least five teens responsible for U.S. school massacres had undergone psychological behavior modification school programs like 2 “death education,” including Columbine High School shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

In Japan, the destructive impact of psychological and psychiatric programming in schools was 3 highlighted by the case of a teacher dressing up as a terrorist and bursting into his classroom, terrifying children in an effort to “teach” them about violence.

Beverly Eakman, an educator and bestselling author, makes clear that the agenda of psychiatrists and 4 psychologists is to “jettison systematic academic knowledge” in favor of manipulative psychological programs and dangerous psychotropic drugs.

Psychiatric drugs and psychological practices were behind the violence in U.S. high schools such as the shooting in Columbine, Colorado (above) in 1999 and have been implicated in teen violence in other countries. CHAPTEREradicating RightFOUR and Wrong

n March 1998, Andrew Goldon, 11, and cousin To discover the true reason, it is necessary to Mitchell Johnson, 13, sounded the alarm at examine modern schools, especially the programs for Westside Middle School in Arkansas, prompt- teaching moral values. In education in the United ing students and teachers to crowd into the States, morals have been heavily and adversely courtyard. Then the two boys opened fire, ran- focused upon since 1967, when “values clarification” domly shooting at their victims, killing four students first appeared in schools. I 40 and one teacher. “Values clarification” initially emerged from In Germany, during final preparations for school Germany and was introduced into United States’ examinations in 2002, an expelled student killed 18 classrooms under various names: sensitivity training, people and then himself. In Japan, a 14-year-old encounter groups, self-esteem training, moral beheaded his 11-year-old reasoning, conflict resolu- friend, while another teen tion and critical thinking, stabbed an elderly neigh- “The re-interpretation and to name a few. None are bor to death because he eventual eradication of the any more than mental wanted to experience techniques designed to killing someone.41 A concept of right and wrong … are modify behavior—or drastic increase in school the belated objectives of practically more bluntly, alter young 44 violence has been report- all effective psychotherapy.... people’s values. ed in Japan, Canada, Children and teen- Israel and France.42 In the Psychiatry must now decide what is agers are manipulated U.K., there are now spe- to be the immediate future of the and molded with the pur- cial schools for disruptive, human race. No one else can.” pose of bringing about sometimes violent young- certain desired psycho- sters who have been — G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and Canada’s logical “outcomes.” This permanently excluded Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare, 1945 process involves breaking from other schools.43 down and subtly invali- There are many pos- dating the child’s already sible explanations why—violence on television, acquired values—in particular, his family’s values — the accessibility of guns and other weapons and replacing them with the idea that there is no set among them. right or wrong, only personal opinion. Yes, children can be influenced by violence on Tom DeWeese of the American Policy TV. Yes, guns are accessible. So are knives. They Foundation tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who were also available 40 years ago, and children didn’t “told his mother that he ranked lumberjacks in the go out and coolly commit premeditated massacres same class as murderers and bigots” after a values with them. clarification class. “These psychologically-based

CHAPTER FOUR Eradicating Right and Wrong 17 programs are harming children. ... It’s mind control has been used in many countries since the 1970s, from womb to tomb,” said DeWeese.45 requires children to discuss suicide, and write their According to William Kilpatrick, author of Why own wills and epitaphs. One U.S. “death education” Johnny Can’t Tell Right From Wrong, “[N]o time is (euphemistically called “forensic education”) class spent providing moral guidance or forming charac- involved taking students to a deserted river shoreline ter. The virtues are not explained or discussed, no to observe a mock crime scene complete with a “dis- models of good behavior are provided, no reason is membered mannequin in the car trunk, a severed arm given why a boy or girl should want to be good in the in a grocery bag and a bloody hacksaw.”49 first place.”46 In Kyoto, Japan, in a bizarre attempt to educate Educator Beverly Eakman describes the impact of children about violence, a teacher disguised in a cap psychiatric and psych- and sunglasses, and ological influence on brandishing a 20-inch schools: “Their clear and metal rod, burst into a stated agenda has been class of 11-year-olds to jettison systematic, sending them stum- academic, knowledge- bling over desks and based curricula.”47 chairs trying to escape.50 At least five teens Concerned parents responsible for school and educators cite massacres had under- Columbine High School Eric Harris gone psychological shooters Eric Harris and behavior modification Dylan Klebold as prime school programs like examples of the failure “death education” or of “anger management” “anger management.” and “death education.” The Arkansas school Harris was taking health and social science an antidepressant that curriculum included can cause violent “conflict resolution” Jeremy Strohmeyer Kip Kinkel mania. He and Klebold classes emphasizing that had attended court- students “examine the These young felons murdered 22 people between them after ordered psychological possible causes of con- being subjected to psychiatric or psychological behavior counseling, including flict in schools, families modification techniques and drugs. “anger management.” and communities” and Further, Harris was told “demonstrate strategies to prevent and manage conflict to imagine his own death. He later dreamt that he in healthy ways.” The Westside Arkansas school shoot- and Klebold went on a shooting rampage in a shop- ing was triggered by one of the boys breaking up with ping center. After turning the story of his dream in to a girlfriend, which he apparently “solved” by coldly his teacher, Harris and Klebold acted it out by killing killing his fellow students. And while “anger manage- a teacher, their classmates and themselves.51 ment” is claimed to teach individuals to control their By combining a value-neutral system or “anger aggression and anger, in one class, a boy beat up a management” together with a heavy emphasis classmate so badly that six days later the boy was still in on the “educational” use of violence-inducing, hospital.48 psychiatric drugs, one has created a powder keg wait- Death education, a psychological experiment that ing for a spark.

CHAPTER FOUR Eradicating Right and Wrong 18 SPECIAL REPORT What Is Really Happening in Class?

oday, students are often screened or after she began taking an antidepressant.55 “To “profiled” by using questionnaires that die in this violent, unusual manner without mak- T inquire about their own and their par- ing a sound … [the drug] must have put her ents’ attitudes and behaviors. This includes such over the edge,” said Cecily’s mother, Sara. questions as how many times they’ve used A “black box” warning fails to address the cocaine or had sexual intercourse.52 magnitude of the problem as more children die One U.S. “teen screen” program surveys from drugs that are FDA approved for, and then students with questions such as, “Has there prescribed for, fictitious disorders. Moreover, been a time when nothing was fun for you and psychiatric drugs and school programs are also you just weren’t interested in anything?”53 The linked to the rise in murderous violence amongst child can then be referred to a psychologist or youth. Psychotic episodes and violent behavior psychiatrist and, usually, prescribed drugs. are associated with chronic stimulant abuse.56 At Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard Medical School, least 5% of patients taking SSRIs suffer “com- said the questionnaires of symptoms used to monly recognized” side effects, including agita- “diagnose” depression “may look scientific,” but tion, anxiety, aggression, hallucinations and “are utterly subjective measures.”54 depersonalization.57 The drugs prescribed for “depression” are Violence by teens that have been taking known to cause violent and suicidal behavior. In psychiatric drugs cannot be ignored. A sampling 2003, the British medicine regulatory agency of such crimes includes: In February 2004, 15- warned doctors not to prescribe SSRI antidepres- year-old Andreas of Germany shot and killed his sants for under 18-year-olds because of the risk of foster father after years of psychiatric treatment; suicide. The following year, the U.S. Food and he was taking prescribed psychotropic drugs. Drug Administration issued a similar warning, as On May 17, 2004, 19-year-old Ryan Furlough of did Australian, Canadian and European agencies, Maryland was convicted of the 2001 first-degree while in September, an FDA advisory committee murder of a friend; Ryan was on a prescribed recommended a “black box” warning about sui- antidepressant at the time. In Japan, in July cide be prominently placed on SSRI bottles. 1999, two boys, aged 15 and 16, stabbed a 16- The warning came too late for Matt Miller year-old, while taking a sedative (sleeping pill) and Cecily Bostock. Matt hanged himself in his because it made them “invincible.” bedroom closet after one week of starting to Educator Beverly Eakman’s advice is, “Give take an SSRI antidepressant. Cecily stabbed her- the mental health industry a leave of absence self in the chest with a kitchen knife two weeks from our nation’s homes and schools.”58 IMPORTANT FACTS

Psychiatrists told governments that they could deliver the world from delinquency and 1 unhappiness—at a huge cost. Psychiatry remains long on promise and short—in fact empty—on delivery.

In 1930, 3 million American adults could not read because they had never been to 2 school; in 1990, 40 million adults—most with 9 to 12 years of schooling—could not read.

In Britain, over two million people are illiterate and in Germany, 3 more than 800,000.

Between 1965 and 2001 in the U.S., drug abuse for children and adolescents soared more than 4 2,900%. In Germany, three quar- ters of the country’s teens have used hash. CHAPTERChildren FIVE Cast Adrift

liminating the basics of education “is unhappiness. However, true to their long- one step in improving education,” psy- established pattern in every field of human chologist Edward Thorndike told us. activity, psychiatry remains long on promise and The “mental hygienists” said that short—in fact empty—on delivery, as well as school could be the focal point for simply dangerous. E“detecting, preventing, and fixing personality What is the legacy of psychiatry and psy- disorders.” And neurotic children, psychiatrist chology’s dangerous drugging and meddling? Brock Chisholm said, were caused by the “poi- sonous certainties” fed to them by their parents and the frustrations Literacy Levels brought about by the Crash unworkable concepts In 1930, three mil- of good and evil, right “The aim of doctors lion American adults and wrong. could not read be- In the hope of should be to do whatever cause they had never “improved mental been to school; in health,” the World they can to keep children 1990, 40 million Federation for Mental adults—most with 9 Health told govern- off prescribed drugs, to 12 years of school- ments that the family ing—could not read.60 should be weakened to particularly those that Up to 44 million “free children from the can have an effect American adults can- coercion of family not read the poison life.” on the mind.” warnings on a can of They boldly assert- pesticide or a letter ed that the school has — George Lipton, Chief of Western Australia from a child’s teacher, the responsibility “to Mental Health Department while 53% of college detect the physical and graduates cannot cal- mental disabilities culate the amount of which have escaped [the] parent.”59 Psychologist change they should get if they hand the cashier Wilhelm Wundt called for “freedom from $3.00 to pay for a $.60 bowl of soup and a $1.95 morality.” sandwich. In the wake of World War II, psychiatrists In New Zealand, it is estimated that around testified before the U.S. Congress in support of 100,000 people have literacy difficulties, and almost 48% of prison inmates had reading ability the need for more psychiatrists. They claimed 61 that future victims of mental illness and their less than that of a 10-year-old. families could be spared suffering and that the While in Britain, more than two million world could be delivered from delinquency and people are said to be completely illiterate and in

CHAPTER FIVE Children Cast Adrift 21 International Explosion in Child Drugging

Number of Number of Number of Number of Children on Stimulant Pills Children Children Labeled Stimulants: 1000% Prescribed on Prescribed Hyperactive: 600% increase between (in millions): Stimulants: An increase between 1990 and 2000 24 million increase of 1989 and 1996 increase between 184,200 between 1995 and 1999 1992 and 2000 600% 1000% increase increase 342.8% 9,210% increase increase (31) (186,200)

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1990 2000 1995 1999 1992 2000 1989 1996 Sweden Germany Britain France

n 1975, authors Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky warned of a I “stimulant generation in the making” in their book, The Myth of the Hyperactive Child. “A n entire generation is slowly being conditioned to distrust its own instinct, to regard its deviation from the narrowing standards of approved norms as sickness and to rely on insti- tutions of the state and on technolo- gy to define and engineer its ‘health.’ …The impact of that conditioning is almost incalculable.” Two decades later, despite numer- ous early precautions, the 1990s saw an alarming increase in the number of children who were diagnosed with ADHD, and prescribed stimu- lants and antidepressants.

CHAPTER FIVE Children Cast Adrift 22 Germany, up to 800,000 were illiterate in ❚ 410% in Spain.69 1989.62 ❚ In the Netherlands, the violent crime rate Child Suicide almost doubled between 1996 and 2001.70 Escalates Alarmingly ❚ Between 1965 and 2001 in the United States, Children and psychiatric drugs are literally a drug abuse for children and adolescents 71 deadly combination. soared more than 2,900%. ❚ ❚ A November 1997 medical report found: In Germany, three quarters of the country’s “The association between benzodiazepine [a teenagers have used hash. minor tranquilizer] use and attempted suicide is Imagine this scenario: You are concerned about especially high for ... the young, and for 2% of your students being drug abusers. You read males. …”63 about an “expert” who says he can handle this ❚ In the April 1996 Australian and New Zealand problem. You interview him and he tells you that Journal of Psychiatry, a study found that “the older he is an authority and will take care of it for you. tricyclic antidepressants are a significant cause of No problem. So you bring him into the school sys- suicide” and account- tem. A year later, 20% ed for the majority of of your students have a deaths due to anti- drug problem. depressants between “Child psychiatrists are You call in the 1986 and 1990.64 one of the most dangerous expert and ask why ❚ A December 1996 you now have a more French study entitled, enemies not only of children serious drug problem. “Suicide and Psycho- He replies, with- tropic Drugs,” estab- but also of adults. … They out blinking, “You’re lished that “suicide must be abolished.” right. It’s a real prob- attempts are more fre- lem. This year I’m quent among patients — Dr. Thomas Szasz, going to need twice as taking antidepressants professor of psychiatry much money. The first compared to patients thing I’m going to do is taking a placebo.65 emeritus, 1997 get another expert to ❚ In Denmark, do a study on the prob- around 2,000 young people less than 25 years of lem. Then, depending age attempt suicide every year.66 on his findings, I’m going to have to hire a couple more experts to help me and, by the end of the ❚ While in Israel, between 1981 and 1994, the year, we’ll have the problem licked.” estimated suicide rate for Israeli boys aged 15 to 19 years old increased by about 183%.67 Would you reach for the checkbook or throw him out? Violent Crime and Drug Abuse Governments using taxpayers’ money have hired just such experts. They are psychiatrists While psychiatrists claim an expertise in and psychologists. And they claimed to be the addressing delinquency and criminal behavior, vio- experts who would take care of society’s drug lent crime rates throughout the European Union, problem, crime, violence and education prob- Australia and Canada have recently begun to equal lems. They also said they would take care of our and even surpass those in the United States.68 mentally ill and cure them. And they have been Between 1975 and 2000, crime rose: paid not millions, but hundreds of billions of ❚ 97% in France, dollars to perform these functions. And they ❚ 145% in England, and have failed to deliver.

CHAPTER FIVE Children Cast Adrift 23 IMPORTANT FACTS

A competent, non-psychiatric doctor who can find underlying physical conditions that can cause “psychiatric” symptoms, 1 should conduct thorough physical exams.

According to medical experts, “hyperactive” behavior has many sources ranging from, but not limited to, allergies, 2 food additives, environmental toxins, improper sleep and certain medications.

If a child is not learning or is behind in school, or can’t seem to concentrate, a competent 3 tutor may be needed. A child may also struggle because he or she is very creative or highly intelligent 4 and is in need of greater stimulation. CHAPTERTaking Back SIX Control

o far, this publication has shown you at night. Tim pleaded that he didn’t want to how psychiatrists and psychologists depend on a pill and said, “I’m smart on my own, have invaded our once successful edu- Mom.” cation systems and converted them into On the advice of a friend, the mother took behavioral laboratories. her son to a doctor who practices alternative SHowever, there are many courageous indi- medicine. The doctor took Tim off the drugs, and viduals who have succeeded in the face of this began giving him nutrients and vitamins. He decay. Take the example of the young mother found that Tim had food allergies. With this who had to fight to get her preschool son a refer- corrected, Tim began to eat again and could fall ral to an ear, nose and throat specialist when she asleep naturally. It was also discovered that Tim suspected he had a had been taught using hearing problem. The the “Whole Word” school nurse referred “Do not, and I scream, method and, as such, him instead to a psy- didn’t understand what chologist, who labeled do not, trust psychologists, he had been reading him as having “ADD” psychiatrists and the current in class. His mother and needing a drug. purchased a “phonics The mother fought for drug-pushing culture of game” for him, taught four months to get the modern education.” him grammar and, referral she wanted; within a few months, eventually the special- — Dr. Julian Whitaker, Whitaker Wellness his reading level in- ist discovered the boy Institute and CCHR International Commissioner creased from second to had a chronic case of sixth grade level.73 fluid buildup and 35- The parent can decibel hearing loss as a result. Within a month know best and can rightfully take control of the sit- the boy was in the hospital: a 15-minute surgery uation, ideas all too easily lost, in what is most prevented what could have been a childhood often a David and Goliath struggle for parents spent on psychiatric drugs.72 and families. Another mother was called into the school These examples show that when we strip principal’s office where a psychologist explained away the lies we can restore hope, and that there that her son’s brain had an inability to send are inexpensive, non-invasive and productive signals correctly, which was why he couldn’t alternatives to the expensive, enforced and concentrate. Tim was put on Ritalin. He began unworkable labeling, drugging and other to lose his appetite, have headaches and tire “solutions” of psychiatry. easily, yet it seemed impossible for him to sleep It is a fact that undiagnosed, but treatable

chapter six Ta ki n g Back Control 25 medical physical conditions often manifest as a child is not learning or is behind in school, or “psychiatric symptom.” simply doesn’t enjoy his classes or can’t seem to Psychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker’s book, The concentrate, find a competent tutor who gets Hyperactivity Hoax, records a variety of reasons results. And let his teacher know you want him for hyperactive behavior: “Children with to fully understand his words, using a simple early-stage brain tumors can develop symptoms dictionary. of hyperactivity or poor attention. So can There is a world of difference between lead- or pesticide-poisoned children. So can the art of identifying symptoms and the children with early-onset diabetes, heart disease, science of finding and treating causes. worms, viral or bacterial infections, malnutrition, Psychiatrists specialize in cataloguing symp- head injuries, genetic disorders, allergies, mercu- toms, work to convince us that the symptoms ry or manganese exposure, petit mal seizures, are causes, that their treatments work and then and hundreds—yes hundreds—of other minor, persist in treating the symptoms. As a result, major, or even life-threatening medical problems. many believe their propaganda that parents, Yet all these children poverty, crime, illiter- are labeled hyperac- acy, suicide, mental ill- tive or ADD.”74 Thousands of children put on ness, etc., are some of And according the “causes” of our to a U.K. publication, psychiatric drugs are simply “smart.” current youth prob- Mental Illness Not All “These students are bored to tears, and lems. in the Mind, “The people who are bored fidget, wiggle, But these are not combination of any scratch, stretch, and (especially if they causes, they are just of the following: symptoms; and at sub-optimum nutri- are boys) start looking for ways best, psychiatry’s inept tion, exposure to anti- to get into trouble.” meddling and treat- nutrients, overuse of — Dr. Sydney Walker, ments have brought sugar, stimulants and about a worsening of author of The Hyperactivity Hoax depressants and food every one of the “con- allergies or intoler- ditions” listed above. ances—can be a very real contributor to mental Blind to real causes, they remain blind to the con- and emotional health problems. The correction sequences of their actions. And herein lies the of these factors often results in substantial most important truth concerning the plague of improvement.”75 social problems characterizing our youth and Thousands of children put on psychiatric general society today—the real cause of our cur- drugs are simply “smart.” “They’re hyper not rent malaise is psychiatry itself. because their brains don’t work right, but The end goal of any society when because they spend most of the day waiting for addressing education must be to raise the slower students to catch up with them. These ability, the initiative and the cultural level students are bored to tears, and people who and, thus, the survival level of the society. are bored fidget, wiggle, scratch, stretch, and This will only be achieved when psychiatry (especially if they are boys) start looking for and psychology, their prying tests, their ways to get into trouble,” said Dr. Walker.76 invasive and fraudulent “diagnoses” and their Studies also show that tutoring leads to harmful drugs are removed from schools and improvements in academic outcomes.77 If your children’s lives.

chapter five Ta ki n g Back Control 26 RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations

You have the right to refuse permission for your child to be subjected to any psychological or psychiatric questionnaire, test or evaluation in 1 school. Ensure you place your child in a school that supports this. If your child has been subjected to psychological/psychiatric screening without your consent, or coercively drugged and harmed, 2 consult a lawyer to determine your right to prosecute criminally and civilly, especially against the authors of the questionnaires and, if psychologists or psychiatrists, their colleges and associations.

Speak out—be your child’s voice. Start or join a parents’ group 3 that can speak out about the wrongful labeling and drugging of our children and provide support for each other.

Support legislative measures that will protect children from 4 psychiatric and psychological interference and which will remove their destructive influence from our schools.

Ultimately, psychiatry and psychology must be eliminated from all 5 education systems and their coercive and unworkable methods should not be funded by the State.

CHILD DRUGGING Recommendations 27 Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

he Citizens Commission on Human CCHR’s work aligns with the UN Universal Rights (CCHR) was established in Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the 1969 by the Church of Scientology to following precepts, which psychiatrists violate on investigate and expose psychiatric a daily basis: violations of human rights, and to Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, clean up the field of mental healing. liberty and security of person. Today, it has more than 130 chapters in over 31T countries. Its board of advisors, called Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educa- or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or tors, artists, business professionals, and civil and punishment. human rights representatives. Article 7: All are equal before the law and While it doesn’t provide medical or are entitled without any discrimination to equal legal advice, it works closely with and supports protection of the law. medical doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR Through psychiatrists’ false diagnoses, stigma- focus is psychiatry’s fraudulent use of subjective tizing labels, easy-seizure commitment laws, brutal, “diagnoses” that lack any scientific or medical depersonalizing “treatments,” thousands of indi- merit, but which are used to reap financial benefits viduals are harmed and denied their inherent in the billions, mostly from the taxpayers or human rights. insurance carriers. Based on these false diagnoses, CCHR has inspired and caused many hun- psychiatrists justify and prescribe life-damaging dreds of reforms by testifying before legislative treatments, including mind-altering drugs, which hearings and conducting public hearings into psy- mask a person’s underlying difficulties and chiatric abuse, as well as working with media, law prevent his or her recovery. enforcement and public officials the world over.

CITIZENS COMMISSION on Human Rights 28 MISSION STATEMENT

THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to do so until psychiatry’s abusive and coercive practices cease and human rights and dignity are returned to all.

The Hon. Raymond N. Haynes our schools to places of learning. This can California State Assembly: only be done by eliminating unworkable “CCHR is renowned for its long-stand- psychiatric or psychological curriculums ing work aimed at preventing the inappro- and questionnaires, and by allowing our priate labeling and drugging of children…. children, with the use of good academic The contributions that the Citizens instruction, to accomplish their grades Commission on Human Rights and goals by using their inherent potential. International has made to the local, My thanks again to CCHR.” national and international areas on behalf of mental health issues are Dr. Eleonore Prochazka invaluable and reflect an organization German pharmacist and toxicologist: devoted to the highest ideals of “I warn of the dangers of psychiatric mental health services.” treatment, using psychiatric drugs and other methods, which can lead to a destruc- Patti Johnson, Member, Colorado tion of the personality—even cause death. I State Board of Education: want to thank CCHR for their remarkable “Efforts by organizations like CCHR commitment to bring the truth to light on are vital if we are to succeed in returning this issue.”

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CCHR’s Commissioners act in an official David Pomeranz capacity to assist CCHR in its work to reform Harriet Schock the field of mental health and to secure rights Michelle Stafford for the mentally ill. Cass Warner Miles Watkins International President Kelly Yaegermann Jan Eastgate Citizens Commission on Politics & Law Human Rights International Tim Bowles, Esq. Los Angeles Lars Engstrand Lev Levinson National President Jonathan W. Lubell, LL.B. Bruce Wiseman Lord Duncan McNair Citizens Commission on Kendrick Moxon, Esq. Human Rights United States Science, Medicine & Health Citizens Commission on Giorgio Antonucci, M.D. Human Rights Board Member Mark Barber, D.D.S. Isadore M. Chait Shelley Beckmann, Ph.D. Mary Ann Block, D.O. Founding Commissioner Roberto Cestari, M.D. Dr. Thomas Szasz, (also President CCHR Italy) Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Lloyd McPhee at the State University of New Conrad Maulfair, D.O. York Health Science Center Coleen Maulfair Clinton Ray Miller Arts and Entertainment Mary Jo Pagel, M.D. Jason Beghe Lawrence Retief, M.D. David Campbell Megan Shields, M.D. Raven Kane Campbell William Tutman, Ph.D. Nancy Cartwright Michael Wisner Kate Ceberano Julian Whitaker, M.D. Chick Corea Sergej Zapuskalov, M.D. Bodhi Elfman Jenna Elfman Education Isaac Hayes Gleb Dubov, Ph.D. Steven David Horwich Bev Eakman Mark Isham Nickolai Pavlovsky Donna Isham Prof. Anatoli Prokopenko Jason Lee Religion Geoff Levin Rev. Doctor Jim Nicholls Gordon Lewis Juliette Lewis Business Marisol Nichols Lawrence Anthony John Novello Roberto Santos

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Citizens Commission on Human Rights RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS ducation is a vital part of any initiative to reverse becoming educated on the truth about psychiatry, and that social decline. CCHR takes this responsibility very something effective can and should be done about it. Eseriously. Through the broad dissemination of CCHR’s publications—available in 15 languages— CCHR’s Internet site, books, newsletters and other show the harmful impact of psychiatry on racism, educa- publications, more and more patients, families, tion, women, justice, drug rehabilitation, morals, the elderly, professionals, lawmakers and countless others are religion, and many other areas. A list of these include:

THE REAL CRISIS—In Mental Health Today CHILD DRUGGING—Psychiatry Destroying Lives Report and recommendations on the lack of science and Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric results within the mental health industry diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth

MASSIVE FRAUD—Psychiatry’s Corrupt Industry HARMING YOUTH—Psychiatry Destroys Young Minds Report and recommendations on a criminal mental Report and recommendations on harmful mental health health monopoly assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools PSYCHIATRIC HOAX—The Subversion of Medicine COMMUNITY RUIN—Psychiatry’s Coercive ‘Care’ Report and recommendations on psychiatry’s destructive Report and recommendations on the failure of community impact on healthcare mental health and other coercive psychiatric programs PSEUDOSCIENCE—Psychiatry’s False Diagnoses HARMING ARTISTS—Psychiatry Ruins Creativity Report and recommendations on the unscientific fraud Report and recommendations on psychiatry assaulting the arts perpetrated by psychiatry UNHOLY ASSAULT—Psychiatry versus Religion SCHIZOPHRENIA—Psychiatry’s For Profit ‘Disease’ Report and recommendations on psychiatry’s subversion of Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and religious belief and practice false diagnosis ERODING JUSTICE—Psychiatry’s Corruption of Law THE BRUTAL REALITY—Harmful Psychiatric ‘Treatments’ Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting the Report and recommendations on the destructive practices of courts and corrective services electroshock and psychosurgery ELDERLY ABUSE—Cruel Mental Health Programs PSYCHIATRIC RAPE—Assaulting Women and Children Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing seniors Report and recommendations on widespread sex crimes against patients within the mental health system CHAOS & TERROR—Manufactured by Psychiatry DEADLY RESTRAINTS—Psychiatry’s ‘Therapeutic’ Assault Report and recommendations on the role of psychiatry Report and recommendations on the violent and dangerous in international terrorism use of restraints in mental health facilities CREATING RACISM—Psychiatry’s Betrayal PSYCHIATRY—Hooking Your World on Drugs Report and recommendations on psychiatry causing racial Report and recommendations on psychiatry creating today’s conflict and genocide drug crisis CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS REHAB FRAUD—Psychiatry’s Drug Scam The International Mental Health Watchdog Report and recommendations on methadone and other disastrous psychiatric drug ‘rehabilitation’ programs

WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric, medical doctor.

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