An exhibition -"A Psychiatry"

PSYCHIATRY - Industry of dead

Why musicians Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Billie Holiday, actresses Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, writer Ernest Hemingway and others died precociously? The answer gives an exhibition „A Psychiatry: A Help or a Threat?“

An organizator of the exhibition is Citizens Comission on Human Rights(CCHR). CCHR warns, that the exhibition contains shocking image material and it´s unsuitable for children below 15 years.

The exposition includes photographic and text material. We can see 14 short documentary films creating on the basis interviews with more than 160 experts from many branches – a medicine, a psychiatry, a psychology, a history, a law, a pedagogy, etc. They´re about history of brutality and terror, using a politics for destroying human lives in Russian dead-camp and in dead factories during the holocaust, fictive mental illnesses and other criminality in psychiatry.

CCHR and experts are alarmed at high mortality and abuse of mental health care:

- more than 100 000 patients dies every year in psychiatric institutions

- a death of 15 000 American children caused a using of psychiatric drugs

- studies argues, that antipsychotic drugs and electric shocks can cause precocious death in elder people

- psycho-medicines evoke inclination to suicide and violence

A special attention is devoted to recent school tragedy, when 54 people was shot, and 105 people was injured. And reason of the tragedy?A criminal was under influence psychotropic drugs!

„There are published positive results of psychiatric cure, too,“defends the exhibition Zbyněk Svadba, the president of CCHR in Czech Republic. For example, Brian Wilson, a member of the group Beach Boys, who was cured by a psychologist, in age 23. The psychologist helped him to overcome bad experience caused by using drugs LSD. He gave him psychotropic drugs and therefore Health chamber abolished him a licence. But the cure helped to this musician and he turned back to music.

This walking exhibition is made according a permanent exposition in a museum situated in an international centre of CCHR in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Its first „world tour“ was in years 2004 - 2005, but a public has required more information, and so next exhibition began in 2006. Bratislava is 30th city in Europe, where comes the exhibition Psychiatry. It´s free daily to April 12, from 9 a.m to 9 p.m at SNP square.

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