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Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry" By Peter Breggin ( St. Martin's Griffin )
Release Date: 1994-08-15
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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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 Peter Breggin MD Toxic Psychiatry Why Therapy Empathy and love must replace
Peter 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.
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vital counterbalance ( abuleilah )
Breggin 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 and in so doing forget to look at how "mental illness" as well as anything else we tend to LABEL is the result of the many aspects that influence who a person becomes: social cultural(school, parents), the indivual's experience of those influence, the context of the person and much more. I praise Breggin for his courage in showing the importance of parents and the impact they have. AS for biochemical causes we need the validity of such "scientific evidence" questioned. Kudos to Breggin for challenging the status quo, and the abuse of power and authority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Shows The Destructive Effects of Current Antipsychotics But New Research Indicates There is Treatment That Won't Create Them ( tardivempowerment )
I 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) so I wouldn't want that option taken away. But perhaps people's minds, including the author of this book would change if there were new anti-psychotics that didnt' cause Parkinsonianism or diabetes and promoted a full recovery. There are in study and its not a hypothetical. Having made a full recovery from glycine, a glutamate antagonist, a new class of antipsychotic in study, the difference in recovery has been night and day. This will be documented in research and although it will published in a psychiatric journal, came from a consumer advocate, not a "study patient". Yes what Peter Breggin says is all true. But what if it could change? What if treatment existed where people could recover fully and have their selves as they should have existed returned to them and not feel "drugged up". As this will be a reality, I would like this to be added as new information to the book and hope that thanks to it that people can experience the full mental recovery I did without the debilitating and very real world Parkinsonian conditions which I am under studies for new treatment as well. Why abandon the system when we can change it and humanize it?
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 ECT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REPRESSION ( sierrayamabushi )
I 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 states that "Dr. Gary Carl Aden, 52, of La Jolla gave up his medical license effective September 8 after allegations that he had sex with patients, beat them and branded them with heated metal devices, including one which bore his own initials." I have checked with the San Diego Union and the story is true. He also used narco-hypnosis. As I suspect that this (perhaps shorn of its kinky elements) is precisely the combination of techniques being used by the Agency, I invite anyone with further information on Aden to write me.
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tOXIC pSYCHIATRY ( kat3500 )
This 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 themselves blindly accepting yet another prescription, because the doctor said to.
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