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Hundreds Target Biological Psychiatry Conference in Germany: Announces CCHRBERLIN: Over 1,000 people marched through Berlin today in protest against the World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. Organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an international watchdog group, protestors blamed biological psychiatry for psychiatrists becoming legal drug pushers who generate a multi-billion dollar industry for themselves. Over US $10 billion (11.7 billion ECU) were made in sales of antidepressants and "anti-psychotic" drugs in 1999 alone. Stimulant use for the bogus disorder, "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD) has soared internationally. Children now sell their prescription drugs illegally for $5 (5.8 ECU) per pill to get high. In France, 3,400 one-year-olds have been prescribed psychotropic drugs. Millions more unnecessarily undergo drug treatments, psychosurgery, and electroshock—the tools and trade of biological psychiatry. The protest included people from France, Hungary, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany and America. Marla Filidei, Vice President of CCHR International said, "Psychiatry should be held accountable for its questionable diagnoses and the devastation left by its treatments. Psychiatrists create 'diseases'—supposed 'chemical imbalances' for which no scientific proof exists—and drugs are developed to 'treat' them. Children are becoming legal drug addicts because of biological psychiatry's false theories." At the demonstration, one German mother referred to the psychiatric hospital where her daughter was incarcerated and eventually died, "a torture chamber." Other parents testified about their being children ruined by psychiatric labeling, drugs and other treatments. Experts reported that 1,000 persons are committed to German psychiatric hospitals every year, many against their will. A truck carried child-like mannequins stuffed with psychiatric pills, illustrating the drugging of millions of children. Grim Reapers and gravediggers symbolized the tens of thousands of deaths while undergoing brutal psychiatric practices. Large photos showed the cemeteries of German psychiatric institutions. Protestors carried signs saying: "Psychiatric drugs destroy the will to live," "Psychiatry Kills" and "Psychiatry: Death instead of Help." Elvira Manthey, the last survivor of the Nazi Brandenburg Havel institution, could testify to this. She spoke of how she and her 3-year-old sister, Lisa, were declared feeble minded and incarcerated by a Nazi psychiatrist in 1938. Lisa died in the gas chambers, aged 4. Mrs. Manthey called for psychiatric drug use in children to be abolished. CCHR was established by the Church of Scientology in 1969. Published: July 02, 2001 Author: Marla Filidei |
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