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The
Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About
ADHD and Stimulant Drugs by Peter R. Breggin, MD
Published in 2002 by Perseus Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This book is the easiest and most direct way to
get information on the stimulant drugs including Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Adderall,
Adderall XR, Dexedrine, Focalin, Concerta, Metadate ER and Cylert. It contains
the latest research on side effects, including permanent brain damage and dysfunction,
and guidance on how to help out-of-control children without resort to drugs.
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Reclaiming
Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis
by Peter R. Breggin, MD
Dr. Breggin was motivated to write Reclaiming Our Children by witnessing , along with millions of other Americans, the events surrounding the shootings at Columbine High School as they unfolded first on television and then in the print media. Dr. Breggin’s book begins with a description and analysis of these tragic events in Littleton, Colorado, and then moves on to examine our government’s response at the White House Conference on Mental Health. He criticizes biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as a solution to the suffering and rebelliousness of America’s children. He also presents strong evidence that psychiatric drugs commonly cause psychoses and aggression in children, and that they probably contributed to individual cases of school violence.
Reclaiming Our Children discusses the
overall situation of children in America, including the stresses on their
lives in the family, school, and community. The author urges
parents, teachers, and other concerned citizens to retake responsibility
for all our children. He sees the necessity of transforming
ourselves and our society in order to meet the needs of all of our children
for meaningful relationships with adults, as well as for unconditional
love, rational discipline, inspiring education, and play. He makes
specific recommendations for improving family and school life based on
sound psychological and ethical principles.
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Your
Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications.
by
Peter R. Breggin M.D. and David Cohen Ph.D.
Hardback published 1999 by Perseus Books, Reading,
MA.
The first book to expose the shortcomings of psychiatric
drugs and to guide patients and doctors through the process of withdrawing from
them. Whether the drug is a sleeping pill, tranquilizer, stimulant, antidepressant,
mood stabilizer, or antipsychotic, Your Drug May Be Your Problem reveals
its documented withdrawal symptoms, demonstrating what many doctors don't know,
understand, or consider: withdrawal symptoms often mimic the symptoms for which
a person has been medicated in the first place, a fact that frequently prompts
doctors to mistakenly re-medicate their patients at even higher doses. Armed
with this essential background information, readers will then be able to choose
for themselves when and how
to withdraw from psychiatric drugs. Groundbreaking and empowering, Your
Drug May Be Your Problem offers readers what they have long sought-a medically
and psychologically sound program for freeing themselves from psychiatric drugs,
emphasizing throughout the importance for patients to keep control over the
withdrawal process.
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Talking Back
to Ritalin : What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Stimulants for Children
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Published by Common Courage Press, 1998
Dr. Breggin's new book: Talking Back to Ritalin, details the side effects and potential problems with Ritalin and other stimulants. It also thoroughly and critically examines the condition and diagnosis of ADHD and ADD, explores the economics and who profits from the diagnosis and the prescribing of stimulants for children, and offers six chapters for parents and other adults on how to help children in their care without resorting to Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs.
The material in Talking Back to Ritalin is documented with citations
to scientific literature. The book also describes non-drug approaches to helping
children diagnosed ADHD through identifying and meeting the basic needs of children,
and through improvements in school and family life.
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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 R. Breggin, M.D.
paperback edition published
1994 by St. Martin's Press
"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
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TALKING
BACK TO PROZAC:What doctors aren’t telling you about today’s most controversial
drug.
By Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Co-authored by Ginger Ross Breggin
paperback published 1995 by
St. Martin's Press
“Peter Breggin is Prozac’s worst enemy.”—Time
There is unquestionably a great deal of truth in what Breggin
writes. Let the pill-swallower beware." -- Los Angeles Times
Prozac, the world's best selling drug, "projected to achieve
sales of about $2.5 billion" according to The Washington Post. Find out
about the dark side of Prozac. Talking Back to Prozac is the only book that
tells you the truth behind its testing and its potentially frightening side
effects.
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THE
WAR AGAINST CHILDREN OF COLOR:
How the drugs, programs,
and theories of the psychiatric establishment are threatening America’s
children with a medical ‘cure’ for violence.
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
co-authored with Ginger Ross
Breggin
cloth published 1994 by St.
Martin's Press
“Terrifying data conveyed in the calm and sober voice
of an experienced and respected physician and researcher. A brilliantly
controversial and, for me, uncomfortably persuasive work—and a major addition
to our understanding of racism as it infiltrates our science and our culture.”
—Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage
Inequalities
In 1992, Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Ross Breggin inspired a national
campaign against the proposed federal "Violence Initiative," that aimed at identifying
inner-city children with alleged defects that would make them violent when they
reached adulthood. Many of the research plans, which are still in operation,
involve searching for a "violence gene," finding "biochemical imbalances," and
intervening in the lives of schoolchildren with psychiatric drugs. This book
is an updated version of the Breggin's 1994 The War Against Children,
with a new chapter that includes information on the federally funded fenfluramine
studies done on inner city boys.
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The
Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. (1997--Hardback Published by Springer Publishing Co.)
Dr. Breggin examines how to cultivate empathy and a healing presence as the underlying principles for all professional and personal relationships in which we offer to help others.
"After years of detailing the myths and abuses of
biopsychiatry, Peter Breggin comes full circle. With this profound and
often poignant work from his own heart, he puts soul back into psychotherapy."
--Kevin McCready, PhD
Clinical Director, San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center
"Transcends scientific jargon to make a critical contribution
to the helping professions."
--Fred Bemak, EdD, Chair, Department of Counseling, The Johns
Hopkins University
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Brain-Disabling
Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs,
Electroshock, and the Role of the FDA
By Peter R. Breggin, M.D. (1997--Hardback Published by Springer Publishing
Co.)
Renowned psychiatrist Peter Breggin documents how psychiatric drugs and electroshock disable the brain. He presents the latest scientific information on potential brain dysfunction and dangerous behavioral abnormalities produced by the most widely used drugs including Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Ritalin, and lithium.
"Dr. Breggin updates us on the real evidence with
respect to the safety and effectiveness of the range of specific psychiatric
medications and ECT. This information is needed by all mental health professionals,
as well as patients and families."
--Bertram Karon, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Michigan
State University
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BEYOND
CONFLICT:
From self-help and psychotherapy
to peacemaking.
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
paperback published 1992 by St. Martin's Press
“This book addresses the very core of what it means to be
human.”
—Emilio Viano, Ph.D., professor at the School of Public Affairs,
The American University
"This is clearly the most humanistic and nonconfrontational
approach to conflict resolution since the best-selling Getting to Yes,
by Roger Fisher and William Ury." Keith Hoeller, PhD, editor of The Review
of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry
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Electroshock:
Its Brain-Disabling Effects
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
cloth published 1979 by Springer Publishing
Company
ELECTROSHOCK--A therapy that helps thousands of sufferers
or an assault that leaves patients with disabled minds and crippled memories?
The controversy over electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) continues in the medical,
legal and consumer communities. Dr. Breggin provides a highly original, lucid
and thought provoking contribution to the debate. He compiles and analyzes the
medical literature that points to permanent brain damage and mental dysfunction
caused by ECT.
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PSYCHOSOCIAL
APPROACHES TO
DEEPLY DISTURBED PERSONS
Peter R. Breggin and E. Mark
Stern, Editors
cloth published 1996 by Haworth
Press, Inc.
“Makes a critical contribution by offering humanistic
and caring alternatives for people who have long-standing histories of
oppression and maltreatment.”
Fred Bemak , Ph.D., Chairperson for the Department
of Counseling and Human Services, The Johns Hopkins University
A humanist approach to treating "psychotic" patients focusing
on psychological and social therapeutic techniques rooted in the contributors'
own practices working with deeply disturbed individuals. The 11 essays discuss
contrasting therapeutic approaches, schizophrenic realities and modes of being,
hallucinations and terror, communities for psychotic persons, illustrative therapy
with schizophrenics, co-counseling, and working with the families of schizophrenic
patients....
SciTech Book News, November 1996
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