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10-Feb-10
Birth disability case settled with €500,000 payout
THE IRISH TIMES 10th February 2010
A SETTLEMENT of €500,000, plus legal costs, has been approved by the High Court against consultant psychiatrist Prof Patricia Casey and consultant obstetrician Dr Mary Holohan in the case of a child born with disabilities allegedly caused by prescription drugs taken by her psychiatrically ill mother during pregnancy.
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24-Oct-09
Tinseltown gets the big picture on psychiatry - it sucks
THE IRISH TIMES 24th October 2009
Tinseltown gets the big picture on psychiatry - it sucks
LOS ANGELES LETTER: “PSYCHIATRY: AN Industry of Death” is the name of a museum on Sunset Boulevard. For several hours you can roam a dungeon-style premises that delivers a clear and sustained message: psychiatry sucks, writes JOHN FLEMING
As the LA palm trees outside overstretch themselves into the blue sky and six lanes of flash cars and pick-up trucks roar past, you are sealed into a theatrical world of condemnation.
In a stage set of straitjackets, restraining tables and human cattle-prods, a versioned world of psychiatry’s lobotomies, ECT and involuntary commitments is vividly dramatised.
Fourteen of Hollywood’s most secret short films and hundreds of dark exhibits sketch a shameful history of the profession, blaming it for racism, the Holocaust, botched psychosurgery and a world dependent on the pharmaceutical industry.
The gist?
Psychiatry ain’t no good.
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27-Jun-08
CCHR Ireland holds fantastic Mental Health Awareness Weekend in Cork
CCHR Ireland held a fantastic 3-day Mental Health Awareness Weekend in Cork alerting the people of Cork to the dangers of psychiatric abuses. CCHR’s state-of-the-art Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibition educated hundreds of Cork people about psychiatry and the event also featured many different groups offering non-psychiatric solutions for real mental health. Admission was free and the entire event was sponsored by voluntary donations. In addition CCHR organised free music and entertainment in the form of Scottish band Saor Patrol, who entertained the public on the Saturday afternoon. CCHR Ireland was contacted by large numbers of people relating their experiences of psychiatry and wishing to help and work together towards our common goal of an Ireland free of psychiatric abuses. The Mental Health Awareness Weekend was a huge success.
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08-Dec-07
CCHR Ireland helps free Irish lady from coercive drugging in Dublin psychiatric hospital
An Irish lady has been freed from coercive drugging in a Dublin psychiatric hospital.
The lady who had suffered from a bad nightmare, was hoovered up by the Irish psychiatric system and was prescribed 10mg Zyprexa in a Dublin psychiatric hospital. She reported that the prescribing consultant did not give her any information about what she was taking and what she was taking it for. She also said she received no information about any side effects of Zyprexa.
CCHR Ireland became aware of the case and sent in representatives to monitor the situation. CCHR representatives also informed the lady fully about the drug she had been prescribed and also made her aware of all the side effects from it. Not only did the lady. recognize some of these side effects in herself, but she also recognized them in others at the hospital.
On receiving this information from CCHR Ireland and realising the true nature of psychiatry and real effects of the psychiatric drug she was taking, the lady decided that further involvement with psychiatry was not in her best interests and she is now back living life normally, drug-free and doing much better.
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01-Nov-07
CCHR Ireland hosts largest mental health exhibition ever in RDS in Dublin
The Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibition held at the end of 2007 was Ireland’s largest-ever mental health event. It was truly a groundbreaking event which, for the first time ever, presented the truth about psychiatry to many key decision makers in Ireland’s political and healthcare system. The exhibition consisted of a breathtaking 4,000 square feet of display boards and no less than 14 DVD documentaries that played non-stop for the 3 day event informing at least 3,600 Irish people about the dangers of psychiatry.
Fascinating feedback was received. The vast majority of Irish people aren’t aware that electroshock is still practiced in Ireland and 95% are against the practice. About 90% of Irish people attending the exhibition are against giving psychiatric drugs to children.
Beyond the basic figures, the real truth of what psychiatry gets away with in Ireland began to become very clear as stories began to pour in. Here’s a small sample of what happened:
- A middle-aged lady spoke of how her son committed suicide while receiving psychiatric treatment.
- A psychiatric nurse touring the exhibition wasn’t able to even say anything in defense of how she had been earning her income.
- Two former brothers spoke of abuses during morning bath time at an Irish psychiatric hospital.
- A gentleman spoke at length about how his mother was diagnosed with an Anxiety
- Disorder when he felt that she was obviously just suffering from a thyroid problem.
Many people who have suffered at the hands of psychiatry spoke about how they felt they had no one to turn to for help with their complaints regarding psychiatry.
The vast majority of people expressed real gratitude that CCHR Ireland was addressing the issue of psychiatric abuse in Ireland and remarked that noone else had so far taken on the might of the drug industry. The acclaimed Psychiatry: An Industry of Death DVD repeatedly sold out during the weekend.
It truly was a landmark event for mental health and most definitely the turning point for psychiatry in Ireland.