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Citizens Commission on Human Rights Says American Psychiatric Association Apology for Supporting Racism is Incomplete January 28, 2021 “Father of American Psychiatry” Benjamin Rush was a slave owner Excerpt from CCHR article: “American Psychiatric Association Apology Fails To Fully Admit Psychiatry’s Racial Human Rights Abuses and Role In Creating Racism” WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 28, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism understates psychiatry’s racial human rights abuses and its long hist...

BBC News By David Edmonds image copyrightGetty Images Until recently, it was generally assumed that if we wanted something, it was because we liked it. But science is now questioning that idea - and pointing the way to a possible cure for addiction. Back in 1970 a shabby and shameful experiment was performed on a New Orleans psychiatric patient. We know him only as Patient B-19. B-19 was unhappy. He had a drug problem and he'd been expelled from the military for homosexual tendencies. As part of his therapy and as an attempt to "cure" him of being gay, his psychiatrist, Robert Heath, hooked e...