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The psychological backlash against Hickie and McGorry
29 November 2011, 9:15 pm

It’s not only psychologists at war over mental health reform -- considerable vitriol is also being directed at the country’s most prominent psychiatrists, Ian Hickie and Pat McGorry. Crikey's series on mental health reform continues....

....The backlash against Hickie and McGorry is also being fed by the extreme end of the anti-psychiatry lobby, including scientologists who have been lodging freedom of information requests targeting their research projects at the universities of Melbourne and Sydney. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, founded by scientologists in 1969 as a “mental health watchdog”, includes amongst its work a museum in its Hollywood headquarters called “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death”. The CCHR website says “this state-of-the-art museum documents how psychiatry is an industry driven by profit, its pretended help often resulting in death”.

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http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/30/mind-games-the-psychological-backlash-against-hickie-and-mcgorry/

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