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Posted by stan_the_man70 on January 20, 2016, at 22:45:04
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http://www.amazon.com/Drug-Induced-Dementia-MD-Grace-Jackson/dp/1438972318/ref=oosr
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1St Edition
by MD Grace E. Jackson (Author)Anyone read this book? This book as very good reviews.
About the Author
Dr. Grace E. Jackson is a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated summa c*m laude from California Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Biology, as well as a Masters Degree in Public Administration. She earned her medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, in 1996, then completed her internship and residency in the U.S. Navy. Following her transition from military service to civilian status in the spring of 2002, Dr. Jackson has worked for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, the Veterans Administration, and as a clinician in private practice. An internationally renowned lecturer, writer, and forensic consultant, she has submitted testimony to governmental agencies and authorities on behalf of patients' rights, medical ethics, and health care reform, and she has served as an expert witness for the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (a non-profit organization based in Anchorage, Alaska). Dr. Jackson's first book, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent, underscored the urgent need for societies and health care systems to recognize the unnecessary harmfulness of psychiatric medications, and to protect the rights of those who desire drug-free care. Expanding upon this same theme, Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime presents a methodical analysis of the scientific and epidemiological evidence which confirms psychopharmaceuticals as a cause of brain damage and premature death. Hopefully, these publications will be used by laypersons, clinicians, lawyers, and policy makers to improve the quality and integrity of health care, and to safeguard the fundamental right of all patients to avoid unwarranted bodily harm - particularly, when that harm occurs in the form of misinformed, fraudulent, and/or coercive (involuntary) medical care.
Posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 0:56:21
In reply to MD Grace E. Jackson (Author), posted by stan_the_man70 on January 20, 2016, at 22:45:04
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http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing/
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Paperback August 2, 2011
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http://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-Medicine-Enduring-Mistreatment/
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Another book by same author - also good reviewsMad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Paperback May 25, 2010
by Robert Whitaker (Author)*Starred Review* When Whitaker (Mad in America, 2002) learned that between 1987 and 2007 the number of Americans disabled due to mental illness more than doubled despite a whopping $40 billion annual psychotropic drug tab, it gave him pause. Given their widespread usegreater than even that of cholesterol-lowering drugshe had believed that psychopharmaceuticals were magic bullets, knocking mental illness out of the game, returning formerly disabled people to the ranks of productive citizens. But the deeper he probed into clinical studies in prestigious scientific journals, some dating back more than 50 years, the more he noticed a shocking anomaly. Psychiatric drugs have repeatedly been shown to worsen mental illness, to say nothing of the risks of liver damage, weight gain, elevated cholesterol and blood sugar, and reduced cognitive function they entail. The reality, he says, is that, because no one knows what causes mental illness, theres no cure or palliation to be found in these pills. What with the conclusions Whitaker draws from his assembled literature and the accusations he levels at those who consciously deceive consumers eager for magical cures, his book will either blow the lid off a multibillion-dollar industry or cause him to be labeled a crackpot and, perhaps, medicated into obscurity. At the very least, it should prod those who take the drugs to question those who prescribe them. --Donna Chavez --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 1:00:29
In reply to Robert Whitaker (Author), posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 0:56:21
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Myth-Chemical-Cure-Psychiatric/
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2007th Edition
by J. Moncrieff (Author)anyone read this? fewer reviews
"This book overturns the idea that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers."
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Bitterest-Pills-Troubling-Antipsychotic/
------------------------end quoteThe Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
2013th Edition
by J. Moncrieff (Author)"A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored."
Posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 2:22:23
In reply to J. Moncrieff (Author), posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 1:00:29
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Paperback August 12, 2014
by M.D. Frances Allen (Author)Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Paperback March 22, 2011
by Ethan Watters (Author)The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Paperback March 8, 2011
by Irving Kirsch (Author)Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"
Paperback August 15, 1994
by Peter R. Breggin (Author)The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Paperback February 23, 2010
by Thomas S. Szasz (Author)Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
2015th Edition
by R. Whitaker (Author), L. Cosgrove (Author)Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
Paperback July 10, 2007
by M.D. Peter Breggin (Author), David Cohen (Author)American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
1st Edition 2013
by E. Fuller Torrey (Author)The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Paperback November 25, 2014
by Gary Greenberg (Author)Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime
Paperback May 26, 2009
by Peter R. Breggin (Author)Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry
1st Edition
by James Davies (Author)Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis Hardcover May 18, 2010
by Daniel Carlat M.D. (Author)The Great Psychiatry Scam: One Shrink's Personal Journey Perfect
Paperback June 16, 2008
by Colin A. Ross (Author), M.D. (Author)Psychiatry: The Science of Lies
Hardcover September 8, 2008
by Thomas Szasz (Author)They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal
Paperback March 4, 1996
by Paula J. Caplan (Author)Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared
2009 Edition
by Thomas Szasz (Author)Pharmageddon
Paperback April 1, 2013
by David Healy (Author)Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Hardcover March 10, 2015
by Jeffrey A. Lieberman (Author), Ogi Ogas (Author)Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal
Hardcover March, 1995
by Bruce Wiseman (Author)How to Tame a Demon: A short practical guide to organized intimidation stalking, electronic torture, and mind control
Paperback January 1, 2014Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
1st Edition
by Stuart A. Kirk (Author), Tomi Gomory (Author), David Cohen (Author)On Our Own
Paperback December 31, 1988
by Judi Chamberlin (Author)Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health
Paperback February 1, 2002
by Elliot Valenstein (Author)America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics And How We've Been Deceived
Hardcover April 26, 2006
by Timothy Scott (Author)Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
Paperback May 18, 2010
by Elliot S. Valenstein (Author)DEPRESSION DELUSION, Volume One: The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance (Volume 1)
Paperback August 5, 2015
by Dr. Terry Lynch (Author)Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy
Hardcover April, 1994
by Joe Sharkey (Author)Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt Against the Mental Health System
Paperback December 31, 1998
by Seth Farber (Author)The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement
Paperback April 17, 2012
by Seth Farber Ph.D. (Author), Kate Millett (Foreword)Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
Paperback April 17, 2012
by Paris Williams (Author)Doctoring the Mind: Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
2009
by Richard P. Bentall (Author)Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting
2015th Edition
by B. Burstow (Author)Military Mind Control: A Story of Trauma and Recovery
Paperback January 9, 2009
by Colin A. Ross (Author), M.D. (Author)Creating Mental Illness
1st Edition 2003
by Allan V. Horwitz (Author)Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex
2nd Edition 2007
by Peter R. Breggin MD (Author)Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
1st Edition 2013
by Peter Gotzsche (Author)The War Against Children of Color: Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth
Paperback July 1, 2002
by Peter R Breggin (Author), Ginger Ross Breggin (Author)The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Reprint Edition
by Allan V. Horwitz (Author), Jerome C. Wakefield (Author)Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Paperback December 2, 2008
by Christopher Lane (Author)Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill
Paperback August, 1989
by E. Fuller Torrey (Author)Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Reprint Edition 2013
by Marc Lewis PhD (Author)The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
Hardcover May 12, 2015
by William Davies (Author)Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry
2009
by Thomas Szasz (Author)Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry
1st Edition 2013
by Michael A Taylor (Author)Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers
Paperback 2002
by Peter Lehmann (Editor), Judi Chamberlin (Foreword), Pirkko Lahti (Foreword), Loren R. Mosher (Foreword)How to Get Off Psychoactive Drugs Safely: There is Hope. There is a Solution.
Paperback February 20, 2011
by James Harper N.C. (Author), Jayson Austin N.C. (Contributor)Anyone read...
Some of the books are newer.
One is as old as 1994 - not new news.
Posted by SLS on January 21, 2016, at 6:59:14
In reply to Others, posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 2:22:23
Yuck.
- Scott
Posted by john locke on January 21, 2016, at 17:41:01
In reply to Robert Whitaker (Author), posted by stan_the_man70 on January 21, 2016, at 0:56:21
We should do the best we can to figure out which parts of one's mental illness is environmental and which part is chemical. Fix environmental problems by environmental means, and chemical problems by chemical means.
On the other hand, whether or not a child who has been abused and isolated from birth can have any chance at recovery without the use of drugs is up for debate. That child would need a LOT of care and support. Either way, I feel like drugs would help this child much less than someone with a legitimate imbalance.
Also, I'm pretty sure its a scientific fact that 50% of happiness is genetic. I would call being on the lower end of that spectrum a chemical imbalance.
Posted by Phillipa on January 22, 2016, at 17:28:12
In reply to Re: Robert Whitaker (Author), posted by john locke on January 21, 2016, at 17:41:01
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201302/can-happiness-be-genetic
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