Toxic Psychiatry
Title | Toxic Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Peter R. Breggin |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1250108721 |
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.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Title | Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | Springer Publishing Company |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2012-07-19 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0826108431 |
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Medication Madness
Title | Medication Madness PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2009-05-26 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780312565503 |
Dr. Breggin presents this fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at people driven to suicide, murder, and other violent behaviors by the psychotropic medications that were meant to help them.
Toxic Psychiatry
Title | Toxic Psychiatry PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | St Martins Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780312059750 |
A critique of the dominant ideology of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment asserts that psychiatric drugs result in long-term brain damage
De-Medicalizing Misery
Title | De-Medicalizing Misery PDF eBook |
Author | M. Rapley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-10-12 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0230342507 |
Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.
Heart of Being Helpful
Title | Heart of Being Helpful PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | Springer Publishing Company |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2006-04-28 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780826102744 |
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Psychosomatic Medicine
Title | Psychosomatic Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt Ackerman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199329311 |
Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) is a rapidly developing subspecialty of psychiatry focusing on psychiatric care of patients with other medical disorders. PM practitioners strive to stay current with the latest research and practice guidelines in a burgeoning field involving complex interactions and combinations of illnesses. To address these challenges, this book provides practical instruction from PM clinicians, educators and researchers, covering core clinical concepts routinely used in practice.