Toxic psychiatry : drugs and electroconvulsive therapy : the truth and the better alternatives.
Breggin, Peter Roger.
Toxic psychiatry : drugs and electroconvulsive therapy : the truth and the better alternatives. - Fontana, 1993. - xxix,578p.
Introduction: What is psychiatry?:- 1. Psychiatry out of control--Part 1 \'Schizophrenic overhelm and neuroleptic drugs-- 2. Understanding the passion of \'Schizophrenic\' Overhelm--3. Suppressing \'Schizophrenic\' Overhelm with neuroleptic drugs; medical miracle or chemical lobotomy? The effects of Haldol, Prolixin, Thorazine, Mellaril, and other \'Antipsychotic\' drugs--4. The \'Miracle Drugs\' cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history --5. The biology and genetics of \'Schizophrenic\' overhelm-- Part 2: \'Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm, Antidepressants, Lithium and Electroshock:- 6. Understanding the passion of Depressive and Manic-Depresive (Bipolar) Overhelm --7. The Biology of Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm --8. Supressing Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm with Lithium and Antidepressants, Including Elavil and Prozac--9. Shock treatment is not good for your brain --Part 3: Anexiety Overhelm and the minor tranquillizers:- 10. Understanding the passion of anxiety overhelm: panic attacks, depersonalization, phobias, obsessions and compulsions, addictions and eating disorders--11. Suppressing the passion of anxiety overhelm with drugs: the minor tranquillizers, Including Xanax, Valium, BuSpar, Ativan and Halcion abd the antidepressant Anafranil --Part 4: Women, Children, the Homeless, and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical complex:-12. Abandoning responsibility for our children: a critique of hyperactivity, Attention deficit disorder, Learniing disabilities, Dyslexia, Autism and other diagnoses-- 13. Suppressing the passion of children with hospitalization and with drugs such as Ritalin and Mellaril-- 14. Suppressing the passion of women--15. Psychiatry and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical complex-- Part 5: Psychosocial alternatives:-16. Psychotherapy and Psychosocial programmes.
Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.
9780006378037 (pbk) : �7.99 000637803X (pbk) �16.50
Mental illness--Treatment
Popular science
United States of America, USA
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Popular psychology
Mental disorders Therapy
616.891 BRE
Toxic psychiatry : drugs and electroconvulsive therapy : the truth and the better alternatives. - Fontana, 1993. - xxix,578p.
Introduction: What is psychiatry?:- 1. Psychiatry out of control--Part 1 \'Schizophrenic overhelm and neuroleptic drugs-- 2. Understanding the passion of \'Schizophrenic\' Overhelm--3. Suppressing \'Schizophrenic\' Overhelm with neuroleptic drugs; medical miracle or chemical lobotomy? The effects of Haldol, Prolixin, Thorazine, Mellaril, and other \'Antipsychotic\' drugs--4. The \'Miracle Drugs\' cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history --5. The biology and genetics of \'Schizophrenic\' overhelm-- Part 2: \'Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm, Antidepressants, Lithium and Electroshock:- 6. Understanding the passion of Depressive and Manic-Depresive (Bipolar) Overhelm --7. The Biology of Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm --8. Supressing Depressive and Manic-Depressive Overhelm with Lithium and Antidepressants, Including Elavil and Prozac--9. Shock treatment is not good for your brain --Part 3: Anexiety Overhelm and the minor tranquillizers:- 10. Understanding the passion of anxiety overhelm: panic attacks, depersonalization, phobias, obsessions and compulsions, addictions and eating disorders--11. Suppressing the passion of anxiety overhelm with drugs: the minor tranquillizers, Including Xanax, Valium, BuSpar, Ativan and Halcion abd the antidepressant Anafranil --Part 4: Women, Children, the Homeless, and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical complex:-12. Abandoning responsibility for our children: a critique of hyperactivity, Attention deficit disorder, Learniing disabilities, Dyslexia, Autism and other diagnoses-- 13. Suppressing the passion of children with hospitalization and with drugs such as Ritalin and Mellaril-- 14. Suppressing the passion of women--15. Psychiatry and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical complex-- Part 5: Psychosocial alternatives:-16. Psychotherapy and Psychosocial programmes.
Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled.
9780006378037 (pbk) : �7.99 000637803X (pbk) �16.50
Mental illness--Treatment
Popular science
United States of America, USA
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Popular psychology
Mental disorders Therapy
616.891 BRE