The Commission for Violations of Human Rights by Psychiatry in Germany (KVPM) has been working tirelessly
for five decades on behalf of the victims of the sometimes brutal practices of psychiatry.
The Commission has documented, uncovered and successfully remedied countless psychiatric abuses.
It demands the immediate abolition of coercive psychiatric practices such as electric shocks,
restraining patients and the forced administration of psychotropic drugs with dangerous side effects.
In 2024, the international touring exhibition "Psychiatry: Death Not Help" by the American sister organization
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) will be on display worldwide and also in Europe.
The chronology of psychiatry's harmful practices from its beginnings to the present day is made public on 14 display walls.
The exhibition was successfully shown in Stuttgart in April 2024.
Visitors can watch 14 award-winning documentaries with 160 experts and people affected by the disease.
It provides information about the marketing of mental and partly invented illnesses in psychiatry and the
billion-dollar business with dangerous psychotropic drugs.
The exhibition "Psychiatry: Death instead of Help" is currently on display in Munich until June 10, 2024.
It also shows how you can protect yourself from psychiatric abuse.
Interviews with experts and those affected provide a rare insight into inhumane psychiatric practices.
Kla.TV then broadcasts an interview with the author, physician and psychotherapist Dr. Josef Zehentbauer as well as an
interview with Robert, who was admitted to a psychiatric ward as a child and sedated with psychotropic drugs.
The complete documentation "Appearances are deceptive - A look into psychiatry" contains these and other
interviews and can be viewed on the KVPM website at www.kvpm.de.
My name is Josef Zehentbauer. I am a doctor, psychotherapist, also work as a psychotherapist and author of several
books, which have also been translated into various languages.
So the current school psychiatry in Germany has, I would say, a fundamentally misanthropic to inhuman concept.
And this is based on the fact that all suffering, all mental suffering, is declared an illness. But that is wrong.
There is a great deal of deep human suffering that has nothing to do with illness at all, but is part of being human in itself
and does not require a psychiatric or pharmacological response,
but an empathetic approach, a philanthropic, loving approach to this person living in crisis, yes,
approaching them and helping them. That's all right.
The medical oath of Hippocrates means that, as a basic principle, no harm should be done to a person.
And this principle is certainly broken very, very often in psychiatry.
Yes, if a patient with a massive life problem goes to a psychiatrist and seeks help, he will most likely meet a doctor
who has little time and who will then respond pharmacologically.
He gives him a prescription after taking a quick look at it.
The bad reputation that psychiatry has in Germany is justified, I would say, because psychotropic drugs are used far too carelessly,
with deprivation of liberty and violations of human dignity.
Antidepressants have side effects, quite a few, yes.
Certainly also side effects that may only be registered or suspected years later.
Neuroleptics were originally developed for the treatment of so-called psychoses, i.e. mental states of emergency, but have
many, many risks and side effects, some of which are permanent, such as movement disorders, grimacing and
the like, or salivation, even in very young people.
I would say that the medication, the prescribing style of neuroleptics should be considerably
restricted, they should generally not be given to old people
- I now mean from 70, 75, 80, and should also generally not be given to children and adolescents.
I think that there is no medical discipline, if psychiatry is to be counted as medicine at all, that is as
influenced by the pharmaceutical industry as psychiatry.
Firstly, psychiatrists have no other idea how to deal with this human suffering, and secondly, there is this overpowering
pharmaceutical industry in Europe and America that wants to sell the colorful pills it produces to people for a lot of money.
The pharmaceutical industry is offering more and more.
And it is striking that the new drugs that the pharmaceutical industry is launching on the market are unusually expensive.
So we're not talking about millions, but billions in profits, yes.
And psychiatry becomes a kind of servant, even an executive organ.
Of course there are people who are in severe distress, who have perceptual changes, who are
severely depressed, who want to kill themselves, yes.
But that doesn't mean that these people should be locked up, pumped full of psychotropic drugs, possibly incapacitated or put
under legal guardianship, ordered compulsory treatment, restraints, i.e. tied to a bed,
but rather that humane help should be offered.
You have to deal with human suffering and respond to people.
But you don't need drawers for this, and you certainly don't need more and more drawers.
Nor is it useful to distinguish between 20 or 30 or 50 different forms of depression.
This serves no one but the psychiatrist to use any pills seemingly specifically.
A different answer is needed. And the other answer does not lie in the field of psychiatry.
And I would say that psychiatry should also be abolished without replacement.
My destiny began when I was nine years old, in German.
I was brought in there after I had previously been examined in the psychiatric clinic in Tübingen.
I was (considered) by the psychiatrist to have a behavioral disorder, a child who always needs attention.
I was supposed to be a difficult child.
I would fit in best in another school for mentally handicapped children because I supposedly can't learn.
I had difficulties in math, in German: Total verblödet, Vollidiot - in German.
I was confined to bed as a young child, given beta-blockers, injections, psychotropic drugs to sedate me, I was given
Zyprexa, I was given Acanitol, I was definitely given psychotropic drugs in my head and tablets, I had to take them.
And if I didn't take them, I was forced to - they pulled my head, mouth and neck back and said: "Now you swallow them!"
They said it would help me to become more independent, more stable and more self-confident.
Instead, the opposite has happened.
Instead of becoming more self-confident, I became more anxious, instead of becoming calmer, I became more aggressive,
instead of becoming more thoughtful, instead of becoming a bit more cheerful, I was constantly tearful.
I suddenly heard voices through the psychotropic drugs, I suddenly had bugs through the
psychotropic drugs. I still remember that.
Suddenly I saw snakes and didn't dare touch the phone.
In my room I suddenly saw people who weren't even there, or heard voices saying, do this, do this, do this...
They almost drove me crazy. I was no longer myself.
I was no longer the carefree child I was before I came to (the psychiatric ward) - I was a made machine.
I walked like a robot, spoke like a computer machine and all my movements were no longer me, I was somehow like in hypnosis,
in a trance, really delirious, as if I was walking like that.
It's hard to imagine.
I started to stutter as a result, I started to speak less well, I learned even more slowly, and then I had seizures.
I can remember some situations where foam still came out of my mouth.
Then at night, when I wanted to sleep, I had nightmares and was pulled out of bed at night.
It said: "To the next dose."
And I couldn't trust my mother with that anymore, couldn't trust my parents with that
anymore, couldn't trust my siblings with that...
And whenever I wanted to say something, I was immediately told to be quiet.
This is psychiatry: experiencing hell...! All I can say is that it's bad, it couldn't be any worse.
Psychiatry kills! And we must stand up before it's too late!