RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Mental health hospitals must be established to replace coercive psychiatric institutions. These must have medical diagnostic equipment, which non-psychiatric medical doctors can use to thoroughly examine and test for all underlying physical problems that may be manifesting as disturbed behavior. Government and private funds should be channeled into this rather than into abusive psychiatric institutions and programs that have proven not to work.

2. Establish rights for patients and their insurance companies to receive refunds for mental health treatment which did not achieve the promised result or improvement, or which resulted in proven harm to the individual, thereby ensuring that responsibility lies with the individual practitioner and psychiatric facility rather than the government or its agencies.

3. Clinical and financial audits must be done of all government-run and private psychiatric facilities that receive government subsidies or insurance payments to ensure accountability and the compilation of statistics on admissions, treatment and deaths, without breaching patient confidentiality.

4. Establish or increase the number of psychiatric fraud investigation units to recover funds that are embezzled in the mental health system.

5. All mental disorders in the DSMshould be validated by scientific, physical evidence. Government, criminal, educational, judicial and other social agencies should not rely on the DSM/ICD-10mental disorders section and no legislation should use this as a basis for determining the mental state, competency, educational standard or rights of any individual.

6. Abolish mental health courts and mandated community mental health treatment.

7. The pernicious influence of psychiatry has wreaked havoc throughout society, especially in hospitals, educational systems and prisons. Citizens groups and responsible government officials should work together to expose and abolish psychiatry�s hidden manipulation of society.

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