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Toxic Psychiatry
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Warning
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Is Psychiatry?
- Chapter 1: Psychiatry Out of Control
- Part I: “Schizophrenic” Overwhelm and Neuroleptic Drugs
- Part II: “Depressive” and “Manic-Depressive” Overwhelm, Antidepressants, Lithium, and Electroshock
- Part III: “Anxiety” Overwhelm and the Minor Tranquilizers
- Part IV: Women, Children, the Homeless, and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex
- Part V: Psychosocial Alternatives
- Appendix A: Groups to Join, Periodicals to Subscribe to, Sources of Legal and Psychotherapeutic Help
- Appendix B: Additional Reading
- Notes
- Index
- Other Books By Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Table of Content
- Copyright