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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 616.8918 EAN: 9780312113667 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0312113668 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: August 15, 1994 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Studio: St. Martin's Griffin Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost? In this searing, myth-shattering exposé, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the "New Psychiatry" and shows how dangerous, even potentially brain-damaging, many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that: psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of long-term brain damage; mental "illnesses" like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorder have never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, but are under the jurisdiction of medical doctors; millions of schoolchildren, housewives, elderly people, and others are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with authoritarian interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped. Toxic Psychiatry sounds a passionate, much-needed wake-up call for everyone who plays a part, active or passive, in America's ever-increasing dependence on harmful psychiatric drugs. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Peter Breggin MD Toxic Psychiatry Why Therapy Empathy and love must replacePeter Breggin M.D. Toxic Psychiatry Why Therapy Empathy and Love Must replace This is the first book I read by Peter Breggin. It is the best book for starters, easy to read and understand. No other book can repace it. Rating: - vital counterbalanceBreggin illuminates the ineffectiveness of certain psychiatric "treatments" for "mental illness." He addresses ECT, Drug therapy, and questions the validity of the biochemical approach. Most significant is how Breggin has the courage to bring to the fore the part parents play in "mental illness" in children and teens. I am a parent of what the dominant powers that be call a "mentally ill" teen. I give kudos to Breggin for not caving in to the status quo of our society; that is that we deify science ... Read More Rating:  - Shows The Destructive Effects of Current Antipsychotics But New Research Indicates There is Treatment That Won't Create ThemI think Peter Breggin's book is an accurate portrayal of psychiatry today but is his problem with the fact that current anti-psychotics (except for Clozaril which has its own set of severe side effects including blood dyscreias) can cause tardive dyskinesia which I have in severe forms and tardive psychosis (still not a named criteria but I am under study for) or psychiatric medication as a concept? I do feel I benefited from treatment and many people do, as a person with a psychiatric disability (schizoaffective) ... Read More Rating:  - ECT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REPRESSIONI wrote a long review of this book but as usual, Microsoft cut me off before I could publish it. So I have to make this short. Anyone who wants the whole review should refer to my blogspot. Briefly, as someone who is searching for evidence that the CIA is using a two-stage method developed in the nineteen-sixties involving ECT and narco-hypnosis, I was particularly impressed by Breggin's expose of Dr. Gary Carl Aden, the major advocate for ECT in California. He quotes an article in the San Diego Union which ... Read More Rating: - tOXIC pSYCHIATRYThis book will open your eyes to the myth that if you can't fix something with a pill, then it can't be fixed at all. An exvellent read. A bit advanced, but still can be followed and understood. A word of warning: If you have a psychiatrist treating you, he/she probably won't appreciate your input from this book. But I still think it informs and then allows you to discuss treatment options more factually, as opposed to just being passive in your care decisions. A must read for those who find ... Read More 
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