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The Conscience of Psychiatry:
The Reform Work of Peter R. Breggin, MD
Edited by the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
Lake Edge Book, Ithaca, New York
475 powerful pages
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The Conscience of Psychiatry is a biographical tribute to Dr. Breggin’s professional career that draws on more than fifty years of media excerpts and more than seventy new contributions from professionals in the field. The result is not only the story of his principled, courageous confrontations with organized psychiatry, drug companies, and government agencies—it is also a probing critique of the psychopharmaceutical complex.
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Medication Madness
The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases
of Violence, Suicide and Murder
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
Now in paperback!
St. Martin's Press 2008
Medication Madness reads like a medical thriller, true
crime story, and courtroom drama; but it is firmly based in the latest
scientific research and dozens of case studies. The lives of the
children and adults in these stories, as well as the lives of their
families and their victims, were thrown into turmoil and sometimes
destroyed by the unanticipated effects of psychiatric drugs. In some
cases our entire society was transformed by the tragic outcomes.
Many categories of psychiatric drugs can cause potentially horrendous reactions.
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, Xanax, lithium,
Zyprexa and other psychiatric medications may spellbind patients into
believing they are improved when too often they are becoming worse.
Psychiatric drugs drive some people into psychosis, mania, depression,
suicide, agitation, compulsive violence and loss of self-control
without the individuals realizing that their medications have deformed
their way of thinking and feeling.
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 Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (2008):
Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex
By Peter Breggin, M.D.
Hardback Published by Springer Publishing Co.
NEW 2008 EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED
Renowned psychiatrist Peter Breggin documents how psychiatric drugs and electroshock (ECT) disable the brain. He presents the latest scientific information on potential brain dysfunction and dangerous behavioral abnormalities produced by the most widely used drugs including Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Ritalin, and lithium.
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 Your Drug May Be Your Problem:
How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
by Peter Breggin M.D. and David Cohen Ph.D.
Paperback 2007 updated edition by Perseus Books
The first book to expose the shortcomings of psychiatric drugs and to guide patients and doctors through the process of withdrawing from them.
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 The Heart of Being Helpful:
Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
Paperback published 2006 by Springer Publishing Company
Dr. Breggin illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond, or healing presence, between helping professionals and their clients. He provides useful vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help beginning and experienced therapists develop more empathy in therapeutic relationships.
"After years of detailing the myths and abuses of biopsychiatry, Peter Breggin comes full circle. With this profound and often poignant work from his own heart, he puts soul back into psychotherapy."
— Kevin McCready, Ph.D., Clinical Director, San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center
"Dr. Breggin passionately captures the heart of psychotherapeutic healing. A prolific and provocative writer, his thoughts are powerful, imaginative, inspirational, and wise. Not only would I recommend this book to professional psychotherapists, but also to the lay reader who will learn the meaning and intricacies of living and loving."
— Clemmont E. Vontress, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, George Washington University
Counselor of the Year — American Mental Health Counselor's Association
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 Dimensions of Empathic Therapy
Peter
Breggin, MD, Ginger Ross Breggin, Fred Bemak, PhD (Editors)
This inspiring contribution to the helping professions delves into empathy as a cornerstone of personal life as well as professional practice. Renowned contributors from various mental health disciplines — psychiatry, counseling, and social work — discuss such themes as the interrelationship of empathy with love, self-awareness, and self transformation. The application of specific techniques includes the use of writing to foster empathy; empathic therapy with different populations — children, adolescents, the elderly, and families; and how to bridge cultural differences in empathy therapy.
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 The Antidepressant Fact Book:
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Luvox
by Peter Breggin, MD
published by Perseus Books, 2001
Known as "the Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Dr. Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless court cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and correspondence files, information from which informs this straight-talking guide to the most prescribed and controversial category of American drugs: antidepressants.
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 Toxic Psychiatry:
Why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the “new psychiatry.”
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
Paperback published 1991 by St. Martin's Press
Toxic Psychiatry remains Dr. Breggin's most complete overview of psychiatry and psychiatric medication. It has influenced many professionals and lay persons to transform their views on the superior value of psychosocial approaches compared to medication and electroshock.
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 The War Against Children of Color:
How the drugs, programs, and theories of the psychiatric establishment are threatening America’s children with a medical ‘cure’ for violence.
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
co-authored with Ginger Ross Breggin
Updated paperback published in 1998
In 1992, Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Ross Breggin inspired a national campaign against the proposed federal "Violence Initiative," that aimed at identifying inner-city children with alleged defects that would make them violent when they reached adulthood. Many of the research plans, which are still in operation, involve searching for a "violence gene," finding "biochemical imbalances," and intervening in the lives of schoolchildren with psychiatric drugs. This book is an updated version of the Breggin's 1994 The War Against Children, with a new chapter that includes information on the federally funded fenfluramine studies done on inner city boys.
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 Talking Back to Ritalin, Revised :
What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
with a forward by Dick Scruggs, JD
Paperback published by Perseus Books, 2001
Dr. Peter Breggin's book: Talking Back to Ritalin details the side effects and potential problems with Ritalin and other stimulants. It also thoroughly and critically examines the condition and diagnosis of ADHD and ADD, explores the economics and who profits from the diagnosis and the prescribing of stimulants for children, and offers six chapters for parents and other adults on how to help children in their care without resorting to Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs.
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 The Ritalin Fact Book:
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About ADHD and Stimulant Drugs
by Peter Breggin, MD
Paperback Published 2002 by Perseus Books
This book is the easiest and most direct way to get information on the stimulant drugs including Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Adderall, Adderall XR, Dexedrine, Focalin, Concerta, Metadate ER and Cylert. It contains the latest research on side effects, including permanent brain damage and dysfunction, and guidance on how to help out-of-control children without resort to drugs.
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 Talking Back to Prozac
What doctors aren’t telling you about today’s most controversial drug.
By Peter Breggin, M.D.
Co-authored by Ginger Ross Breggin
paperback published 1995 by St. Martin's Press
“Peter Breggin is Prozac’s worst enemy.” — TIME Magazine
"There is unquestionably a great deal of truth in what Breggin writes. Let the pill-swallower beware."
— Los Angeles Times
Prozac, the world's best-selling drug, is "projected to achieve sales of about $2.5 billion" according to The Washington Post. Find out about the dark side of Prozac. Talking Back to Prozac is the only book that tells you the truth behind its testing and its potentially frightening side effects.
You can order this book from Amazon.com
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 Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons
Peter Breggin and E. Mark Stern, Editors
Cloth published 1996 by Haworth Press, Inc.
“Makes a critical contribution by offering humanistic and caring alternatives for people who have long-standing histories of oppression and maltreatment.” Fred Bemak , Ph.D., Chairperson for the Department of Counseling and Human Services, The Johns Hopkins University
"A humanist approach to treating 'psychotic' patients focusing on psychological and social therapeutic techniques rooted in the contributors' own practices working with deeply disturbed individuals. The 11 essays discuss contrasting therapeutic approaches, schizophrenic realities and modes of being, hallucinations and terror, communities for psychotic persons, illustrative therapy with schizophrenics, co-counseling, and working with the families of schizophrenic patients...." SciTech Book News, November 1996
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 Beyond Conflict: From Self-Help and Psychotherapy to Peacemaking
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
paperback published 1992 by St. Martin's Press
“This book addresses the very core of what it means to be human.”
—Emilio Viano, Ph.D., professor at the School of Public Affairs, The American University
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 Reclaiming Our Children:
A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis
by Peter Breggin, MD
Dr. Breggin was motivated to write Reclaiming Our Childre by witnessing , along with millions of other Americans, the events surrounding the shootings at Columbine High School as they unfolded first on television and then in the print media. Dr. Breggin’s book begins with a description and analysis of these tragic events in Littleton, Colorado, and then moves on to examine our government’s response at the White House Conference on Mental Health. He criticizes biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as a solution to the suffering and rebelliousness of America’s children. He also presents strong evidence that psychiatric drugs commonly cause psychoses and aggression in children, and that they probably contributed to individual cases of school violence.
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