Released on = May 13, 2006, 9:12 am

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Ms. Boisvert said in her suicide note that she didn't want
to spend one more moment in the "EMP" nor did she want to continue living as a
psychiatric patient growing steadily worse. "It's not life."

Press Release Body = The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog
group established by the Church of Scientology, has asked a Victoria, British
Columbia coroners inquest to take Ellie Boisvert's dying words to heart and put the
psychiatrist responsible for her care and treatment at the forefront of the
investigation. The group has also asked that justice actions be taken against the
psychiatrist.

According information brought out at the inquest conducted by Regional Coroner Rose
Stanton, Ellie Boisvert, 56, left the Eric Martin Pavilion, the psychiatric ward of
the Royal Jubilee Hospital, on July 29, 2005, on a four to six-hour pass.

According to the Times Colonist, Ms.Boisvert didn't return from her pass and was
found dead on Aug. 17, 2005, in Layritz Park. Near her body was a note, which police
investigation revealed was Boisvert's own handwriting. Ms. Boisvert said in the
note she didn't want to spend one more moment in the "EMP." Nor did she want to
continue living as a psychiatric patient growing steadily worse. "It's not life."

Another fault in the psychiatric industry, according to a study by Lisa Cosgrove, a
psychologist from the University of Massachusetts and Sheldon Krimsky, a Tuft
University professor, is psychiatry's billing bible itself , the Diagonstic and
Satistical Manual of Mental Disorgers (DSM). The study documents how pharmaceutical
companies who manufacture drugs for "mental disorders" funded psychiatrists who
defined the disorders for the manual. One hundred percent of the "experts" on
DSM-IV panels overseeing so-called "mood disorders" (which includes "depression")
and "schizophrenia/psychotic disorders" were financially involved with drug
companies. These are the largest categories of psychiatric drugs in the world: 2004
sales of $20.3 billion for antidepressants and $14.4 billion for antipsychotic drugs
alone.

Dr. Cosgrove also raised crucial points about the lack of science behind the DSM,
stating, "No blood tests exist for the disorders in the DSM. It relies on judgments
from practitioners who rely on the manual."

Victoria psychologist, Dr. Tana Dineen, the author of Manufacturing Victims that
debunks the DSM, says that unlike medical diagnoses, DSM disorders are "voted" into
existence by APA members. They can also be removed if they are too much trouble.
In 1973, the APA voted-5,584 to 3,810-to cease calling homosexuality a mental
disorder after gay activists picketed an APA conference. The DSM wields enormous
power for a document that is so fickly determined and is, as Dr. Cosgrove says a
"political process."

Brian Beaumont, President of the Vancouver chapter of the Citizens Commission on
Human Rights said, "Never have incidents of psychiatric injustice been more evident
than in the mental health field where laws have empowered psychiatrists to seize
people and, without trial, not only deprive them of their liberty, drug or electric
shock them or, in the case of Ellie Boisvert, drive them to suicide".

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric watchdog
group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz,
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical
University in Syracuse, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human
rights.




Web Site = http://www.cchr.org

Contact Details = Citizens Commissin on Human Rights
401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver British Columbia
V6B1L5
604 689-4417 humanrights@lightspeed.ca