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Toxic psychiatry : drugs and electroconvulsive therapy : the truth and the better alternatives / Peter R. Breggin.

By: Breggin, Peter Roger, 1936-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : HarperCollins, 1993Description: xxix, 578 p. + pbk.ISBN: 000637803X ; 000637803X .Subject(s): Mental illness -- TreatmentDDC classification: 616.891
Contents:
Introduction: what is psychiatry? -- Psychiatry out of control -- Part I: 'Schizophrenic' overwhelm and neuroleptic drugs -- Understanding the passion of 'schizophrenic' overwhelm -- Suppressing 'schizophrenic' overwhelm with neuroleptic drugs: medical miracle or chemical labotomy? The effects of haldol, prolixin, thorazine, mellaril and other 'antipsychotic' drugs -- The 'miracle drugs' cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history -- The biology and genetics of 'schizophrenic' overwhelm -- Part II: 'Depressive' and 'Manic-depressive' overwhelm, antidepressants, lithium and electroshock -- Understanding the passion of 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' (bipolar) overwhelm -- The biology of 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' overwhelm -- Supressing 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' overwhelm with lithium and antidepressants, including elavil and prozac -- 'Shock treatment is not good for your brain' -- Part III: 'Anxiety' overwhelm and the minor tranquillizers -- Understanding the passion of anxiety overwhelm: panic attacks, depersonalization phobias, obsessions and compulsions, addictions and eating disorders -- Supressing the passion of anxiety overwhelm with drugs: the minor tranquillizers, including Xanax, Valium, Buspar, Ativan and Halcion and the antidepressant anafranil -- Part IV: Women, children, the homeless and the psycho-pharmaceutical complex -- Abandoning responsibility for our children: a critique of hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism and other diagnoses -- Supressing 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 -- Part V: Psychosocial alternatives -- Psychotherapy and psychosocial programmes.
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 616.891 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00018524
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

One of America's most controversial writers in the field, Breggin, writes about the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA, where such things are used as cure-alls. He details the success of talking therapy, and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed by psychiatrists as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled, and documents how many of these conditions can be healed through love, guidance, empathy, family therapy, rehabilitation and the teaching of coping skills. And how psychiatry, motivated by power and money, increasingly favours chemical and mechanistic interventions.

Introduction: what is psychiatry? -- Psychiatry out of control -- Part I: 'Schizophrenic' overwhelm and neuroleptic drugs -- Understanding the passion of 'schizophrenic' overwhelm -- Suppressing 'schizophrenic' overwhelm with neuroleptic drugs: medical miracle or chemical labotomy? The effects of haldol, prolixin, thorazine, mellaril and other 'antipsychotic' drugs -- The 'miracle drugs' cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history -- The biology and genetics of 'schizophrenic' overwhelm -- Part II: 'Depressive' and 'Manic-depressive' overwhelm, antidepressants, lithium and electroshock -- Understanding the passion of 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' (bipolar) overwhelm -- The biology of 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' overwhelm -- Supressing 'depressive' and 'manic-depressive' overwhelm with lithium and antidepressants, including elavil and prozac -- 'Shock treatment is not good for your brain' -- Part III: 'Anxiety' overwhelm and the minor tranquillizers -- Understanding the passion of anxiety overwhelm: panic attacks, depersonalization phobias, obsessions and compulsions, addictions and eating disorders -- Supressing the passion of anxiety overwhelm with drugs: the minor tranquillizers, including Xanax, Valium, Buspar, Ativan and Halcion and the antidepressant anafranil -- Part IV: Women, children, the homeless and the psycho-pharmaceutical complex -- Abandoning responsibility for our children: a critique of hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism and other diagnoses -- Supressing 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 -- Part V: Psychosocial alternatives -- Psychotherapy and psychosocial programmes.

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