"Dr. Peter Breggin is the conscience of American psychiatry." --Bertram P. Karon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, author of The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

“Breggin is a one-man intellectual SWAT team, launching an all-out attack against the deception, half truths and downright lies of psychiatry.” --Jeffrey Mousaieff Masson, PhD., author of When Elephants Weep and The Assault on Truth

Prozac, Ritalin, 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, ADHD, post- traumatic stress disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?

In this searing, myth-shattering expose', psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the "New Psychiatry." He 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; that 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; that millions of school children, housewives, elderly people and other vulnerable people are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with biological interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped.

This book provides invaluable and detailed discussions of the potential damaging side effects of the various psychiatric drugs and electroshock, as well as offering hopeful alternatives. It places the "New Psychiatry" within the larger context of the psychopharmaceutical complex who's biggest priority is the financial bottom line.

If you only get one book to start with, it should be Toxic Psychiatry.

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