At Technopolis City of Athens, 1,370 visitors toured Psychiatry: An Industry of Death as speakers urged Greeks to look past labels, overuse of psychiatric drugs and “specialists” and protect children from psychiatric abuse.
One week after the Greek chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights took its message to the streets outside Athens’ 12th Psycho-pharmaceutical Congress, CCHR brought its Psychiatry: An Industry of Death traveling exhibit to Technopolis City of Athens, turning one of the city’s busiest cultural venues into a public briefing on rights and respect of dignity on the field of mental health.
The exhibit was open from 6 to 9 February 2026 and drew more than 2,000 visitors watching the exhibit in full, or stopping at the displays, banners and entrance while attending other events at Technopolis. The Exhibit was placed in the historical and beautiful venue of Old Retorts, beside the Vinyl Market and Craft Riots, giving Greek families, young people, artists, professionals and tourists direct access to information many said they had never seen before.
The timing was deliberate. Organizers identified a public information gap: many Greeks distrust “artificial solutions and drugs” but also feel they lack a public voice or reliable data on psychiatric practices. CCHR used the exhibit to confront that silence with documentation on the history of psychiatry, psychiatric drugging, child labeling, institutional abuse and the human rights consequences of treating people as diagnoses instead of individuals.
The opening was held on 8 February before 47 guests. CCHR hostest, Natalia Fasfali, welcomed attendees and thanked the Athens Municipality and Technopolis City of Athens for hosting the exhibit. She said mental health should never be separated from human dignity and respect and introduced two speakers whose work centers on children, families and approaches person as whole to help.
Dr. Vincenza Palmieri, psychologist, university professor, author and president of the Italian National Institute for Family Pedagogy, spoke on the need to be informed in order to eliminate psychiatric crimes and protect children. She warned that false data are being spread under new professional “masks,” and that ignorance itself leaves families vulnerable.
Ms. Christina Galanopoulou, physical education professor and scientific associate of I-PAIDI Sports, spoke on “The benefits of physical exercise for children with depression.” She truly touched the public by emphasizing that children need family, education, discipline, resilience and life skills, and that sports combined with all the above can help keep a child away from drugs and addictive habits and in a good mental and physical state.
The response from visitors was immediate. One psychologist watched the full exhibit, came out in tears and said, “I cannot tell you how right you are.” A sociologist working in human rights said people do not know what is happening inside asylums or how many rights are being violated daily. A former champion who is now a psychologist discussed psychiatric abuses and illegal prescriptions and offered to help CCHR at future events.
Visitors repeatedly called for the exhibit’s information to be brought into schools. “Those should be taught at schools,” one wrote. Another said, “Someone finally dared to present the scientific truth for the false-science of psychiatry.” A tourist wrote, “These exhibitions need to continue and be supported.”
The Athens exhibit connected directly to the most urgent themes of CCHR’s traveling display: psychiatric drugging, invented disorders, the targeting of children and the institutional abuses hidden behind the language of mental health treatment. The public response showed that when people are given information, they begin asking different questions.
