Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the New Psych

Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugsand dozens of other shortterm solutionsare being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?In this searing, mythshattering expos, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the New Psychiatry and shows how dangerous, even potentially braindamaging, many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that: psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of longterm brain damage; mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorder have never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, but are under the jurisdiction of medical doctors; millions of schoolchildren, housewives, elderly people, and others are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with authoritarian interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped.Toxic Psychiatry sounds a passionate, muchneeded wakeup call for everyone who plays a part, active or passive, in Americas everincreasing dependence on harmful psychiatric drugs.