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Read: CCHR’s Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit
mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more
than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive
practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic unalienable
human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not
limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical
legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric
treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives,
and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.
CCHR was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology
and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz
at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions
and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human rights.