Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Exhibit Educates FIU Students on Mental Health Rights and Abuses

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) presented the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death traveling exhibit at Florida International University in Miami during a multi-day engagement focused on exposing mental health abuses and the dangers of psychiatric drugging, particularly affecting children. Modeled after CCHR's permanent Los Angeles museum, the exhibit provides a comprehensive historical and contemporary examination of psychiatric practices through immersive audiovisual displays and survivor testimony that reaches tens of thousands of people worldwide annually.

The exhibit specifically aims to raise awareness about human rights violations including electroconvulsive therapy, coercive psychiatric practices, and the dangerous drugging of children while empowering individuals with knowledge of their rights within the mental health system. Attendees learn about legal protections and advocacy avenues, which aligns with CCHR Florida's broader educational initiatives focused on Florida's mental health laws and patient rights. The organization maintains a permanent installation of this exhibit at their center in downtown Clearwater, which was unveiled in July 2015 and presents the unvarnished history of psychiatry alongside information about contemporary psychiatric practices.

Hosted by the Florida chapter of CCHR, an award-winning nonprofit that exposes abuse in the mental health industry, the FIU exhibit attracted students, educators, community leaders, advocates, and medical professionals. Many attendees reported having witnessed the abuses depicted in the exhibit firsthand and pledged to collaborate with CCHR to help prevent mental health abuses throughout Florida. The exhibit consists of 14 audiovisual displays that reveal factual information about psychiatric abuses, incorporating interviews from more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, and survivors to expose what the organization describes as psychiatry's multi-billion dollar fraud.

Speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony included Stephanie Anderson, philanthropist, NFL Player Advocate, and president of NFL Sisters in Service, who delivered powerful remarks about psychiatry's impact on families and communities. Anderson stated, "Look around this room and see everything psychiatry has taken from our families, taken the potential from our loved ones, and ignored it for the monetization of drugs or whatever they were pushing at that time. I want you to look around this room, betraying and drugging children, psychiatric crime and fraud, the educators that we've lost, and add NFL players to the list." Additional speakers included Alfredo Amigozena, president of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Mari Carmen Rodriguez, founder of Iman's Light Foundation, and Marta Vega, president of National Community Service.

The Florida museum has hosted over 10,000 visitors, including nursing students and technical college students from across the state who incorporate the two-hour self-guided tour into their clinical training days, finding the experience both informative and eye-opening. CCHR combines museum tours with seminars and workshops delivered by attorneys and healthcare professionals focusing on mental health law, particularly Florida's Baker Act, working to educate lawmakers, medical professionals, and private citizens about mental health abuse and their legal rights. The Clearwater museum operates from 10:30 AM until 6 PM Monday through Friday and from 2 PM until 6 PM on Saturday and Sunday, with weekly and monthly events, all free to the general public. More information is available at https://www.cchrflorida.org.