Toxic Psychiatry

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?In this searing myth-shattering exposé psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin M.D. breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the New Psychiatry and shows how dangerous even potentially brain-damaging many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that: psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of long-term 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 much-needed wake-up call for everyone who plays a part active or passive in America''s ever-increasing dependence on harmful psychiatric drugs.