Peter R Breggin: 7 books
Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry
Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
From the author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac:
"Peter Breggin is the conscience of American psychiatry. Once more he updates us on the real evidence with respect to the safety and effectiveness of specific psychiatric medications and ECT. This information is needed by...
Talking Back to Prozac
What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A psychiatrist takes a critical look at this SSRI and newer medications that are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in America.
Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‑Prozac chorus are...
Medication Madness
A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Medications for everything from depression and anxiety to ADHD and insomnia are being prescribed in alarming numbers across the country, but the "cure" is often worse than the original problem. Medication Madness is a fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at the role that psychiatric medications...
Toxic Psychiatry
Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Prozac, 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, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?
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The Heart of Being Helpful
Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr. Breggin's book, now available in an affordable paperback, illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond--or healing presence--between helping professionals and their clients. The author provides...
by E Mark Stern, Peter R Breggin
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to...
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
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This is the first book to establish guidelines and to assist prescribers and therapists in withdrawing their patients from psychiatric drugs, including those patients with long-term exposure to antipsychotic drugs, benzodiazepines, stimulants, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers. It...