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Toxic psychiatry : why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the "new psychiatry" / Peter R. Breggin.

Title
Toxic psychiatry : why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the "new psychiatry" / Peter R. Breggin.
Author
Breggin, Peter Roger, 1936-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.

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Description
464 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Biological psychiatry > Evaluation
  • Brain Damage, Chronic > etiology
  • Electroshock > adverse effects
  • Mental Disorders > therapy
  • Psychotherapy > methods
  • Psychotropic Drugs > adverse effects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-424) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Psychiatry out of control -- Schizophrenic overwhelm and neuroleptic drugs -- Understanding the passion of schizophrenic overwhelm -- Suppressing schizophrenic overwhelm with neuroleptic drugs: medical miracle or chemical lobotomy? The effects of haldol, prolixin, thorazine, mellaril, and other antipsychotic drugs -- Miracle drugs cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history -- Biology and genetics of schizophrenic overwhelm -- Depressive and manic-depressive overwhelm, antidepressants, lithium, and electroshock -- Understanding the passion of depressive and manic-depressive (bipolar) overwhelm -- Biology of depressive and manic-depressive overwhelm -- Suppressing depressive and manic-depressive overwhelm with lithium and antidepressants, including elavil and prozac -- Shock treatment is not good for your brain -- Anxiety overwhelm and the minor tranquilizers -- Understanding the passion of anxiety overwhelm: panic attacks, depersonalization, phobias, obsessions and compulsions, addictions, and eating disorders -- Suppressing the passion of anxiety overwhelm with drugs: the minor tranquilizers, including xanax, valium, buspar, ativan, and halcion, and the antidepressant anafranil -- Women, children, the homeless, and the psycho-pharmaceutical complex -- Abandoning responsiblity for our children: a critique of hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism, and other diagnoses -- Suppressing the passion of children with hospitalization and with drugs, such as ritalin and mellaril -- Suppressing the passion of women -- Psychiatry and the psycho-pharmaceutical complex -- Psychosocial alternatives -- Psychotherapy and psychosocial programs.
ISBN
0312059752 :
LCCN
^^^91000113^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library