Psychiatric Community Pushing for More Electroshock
Yes, psychiatrists ‘still’ shock people—including the elderly, pregnant women and toddlers By Kelly Patricia O’Meara November 4, 2015 Despite the known brain damage associated with…
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Shock School Critic Says FDA Should Crack Down on Aversive Therapy
My Fox Boston – June 6, 2014 By Mike Beaudet, reporter Kevin Rothstein, producer BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) — A doctor who was part of an FDA…
New York to pull students from the Judge Rotenberg Center?
In light of recent developments, Councilman Vincent J. Gentile, a long-time advocate for New York’s most vulnerable, is calling on New York City Department of Education Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott to remove all New York children from the infamous Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts once and for all.
UN Calls Electroshock Treatment of Kids at Massachusetts School “Torture”
The Boston-area’s Judge Rotenberg Center educates and treats enrollees ages 3 to adult, all of whom are struggling with severe emotional, behavior, and psychiatric problems, including autism-like disorders. And for about half of the 250 students here, undesirable behavior means getting hooked up to a special machine and administered an electric shock.
Renowned human rights lawyer—Persecution of Chinese political dissidents under guise of psychiatric treatment increasing
Although Beijing has always denied charges of psychiatric abuse of dissidents, the National Conference of Ankang Asylums held by the Ministry of Public Security in Wuhan, Hubei Province, on May 26 and 27 has inadvertently admitted these charges.