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CCHR’s exhibition ran for several weeks longer than had been originally planned. But the tactics they employed to draw more visitors to the site were not always met with approval.
To do so, the exhibition used its own form of shock therapy. Video screens looped graphic footage of lobotomies and electroshock treatment. A nearby board displayed photos of celebrities, such as Kurt Cobain and Elliot Smith, who, the exhibit claimed, had allegedly been killed by psychiatry. Outside on Brattle Street...
“He told me about the exhibition, gave me a flyer, then said “Don’t believe psychiatry! It’s an industry of death! ADHD doesn’t exist!”
Promotional tactics aside, some said they thought putting a temporary anti-psychiatry exhibition in the heart of an Ivy Legaue campus was a little unorthodox.
But a representative from the Harvard Square Business Association said that the exhibition brought a new topic of discussion to the area, even if it was a deviation from the norm.