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Recommendations

1. A list of convicted psychiatrists and mental health workers, especially those convicted and/or disciplined for fraud and sexual abuse should be kept on state, national and international law enforcement and police agencies databases, to prevent criminally convicted and/or deregistered mental health practitioners from gaining employment elsewhere in the mental health field.

2. In every country, criminal codes must state that just the fact of a sexual act between any therapist and patient is “felony rape” with the same penalties as any other rape. “Consent” by the patient is not a defense.

3. All professional licensing boards for psychiatrists, psychologists or psychotherapists, should refer copies of patient complaints about sexual abuse to the police to investigate and prosecute.

4. Individuals who have been abused by a psychiatrist, psychologist or psychotherapist should file a police report about every incident of psychiatric assault, fraud or other crime they become aware of and send CCHR a copy of the complaint.

5. In every country, parents must have the right to refuse permission for their child to be subjected to any psychological or psychiatric questionnaire, test or evaluation or be forced to take a psychiatric drug in school.

6. In every country, governments should ensure that children have to right to access schools that do not rely upon psychological or psychiatric curricula and programs.

7. If a child has been subjected to psychological/psychiatric screening without parental consent, or coercively drugged and harmed, parents should consult a lawyer to determine their right to prosecute criminally and civilly, especially against the authors of the questionnaires and responsible psychologists or psychiatrists, their colleges and associations.

8. Ultimately, psychiatry and psychology must be eliminated from all education systems and their coercive and unworkable methods should not be funded by the State. No psychiatric drug should be used on children, nor should any pediatric clinical drug trials be permitted.

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