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Antipsychiatry in Print

 
THERE IS A WEALTH of information describing the many and various problems of psychiatry, both on- and off-line. Studies and anecdotal accounts showing consistently lethal effects of psychiatric "therapies" are referenced in written works on the subject, a small fraction of which are listed below.

THE ANTIPSYCHIATRIC PRESS is hamstrung by two factors. First, it lacks the financial backing of a trillion-dollar-a-year drug manufacturing industry. Second, its primary contributors are commonly rendered incapable of self-expression by the very treatments against which they would otherwise cry out. Such wholesale destruction of the cognitive and expressive faculties of individual beings is the real product of psychiatry, and the voices of survivors are doubly eloquent - and essential - for that reason.

READING ROOM

  • Louise Armstrong
    • And They Call It Help: The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children (Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, Mass., 1993).  This book documents how widespread unjustified psychiatric commitment is in America, particularly of adolescents.
  • Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D
    • The Myth of the A.D.D. Child
  • Leon Bing
    • A Wrongful Death (Villand Press) - The story of a child's death at the hands of a psychiatrist.
  • Blackbridge, Persimmon et al
    • Still Sane, Press Gang Publishers, 1985
    • A True Story With Lies. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996
  • Dr. Mary Ann Block
    • No More ADHD: 10 steps to help improve your child's attention and behavior without drugs
    • No More Ritalin
  • John Breeding, Ph.D., one of the few psychologists with his head screwed on straight
    • The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses: The Truth About Ritalin, ADHD and Other "Disruptive Behavior Disorders"
  • Peter S. Breggin, M.D., psychiatrist
    • Toxic Psychiatry (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991)
    • Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain (Springer Pub. Co., New York, 1983).  This book cites irrefutable evidence of harm, including permanent brain damage, from psychiatric drugs.
    • Electroshock: It's Brain-Disabling Effects (Springer Pub. Co., New York, 1979). This book cites irrefutable evidence of brain damage from psychiatry's electric shock treatment.
    • The Anti-Depressant Fact Book, (Perseus Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001)
    • Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis (Perseus Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000)
    • (and David Cohen, Ph.D.) Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Perseus Books - Reading, Massachusetts, 1999)
    • Talking Back to Prozac (St.Martin's Press, New York, 1994)
    • Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry. NY: Springer, 1997
  • Burstow, B. & D. Weitz, Eds.
    • Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988
  • Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D
    • They Say You're Crazy
  • Hyla Cass, MD
    • Natural Highs: Feel Good All The Time
  • Judi Chamberlin
    • On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System (Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York,1978).  This book by long-time antipsychiatry activist Judi Chamberlin includes many insightful criticisms of psychiatry in addition to offering advice about organizing alternatives to psychiatry that can be helpful to troubled people.
  • Lee Coleman, MD
    • The Reign of Error: Psychiatry, Authority, and Law (Beacon Press, Boston, 1984)
  • A B Curtiss
    • Depression is a Choice:Winning the Battle Without Drugs
  • Robyn Dawes
    • House of Cards
  • Tana Dineen
    • Manufacturing Victims
  • B. K. Eakman
    • Educating for the New World Order
  • Eva Edelman, ND
    • Natural Healing for Schizophrenia
  • Seth Farber, Ph.D.
    • Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt Against the Mental Health System
    • Eternal Day: The Christian Alternative to Secularism and Modern Psychology
    • Unholy Madness: The Church's Surrender to Psychiatry
  • Foucault, Michel
    • Madness and Civilization. New York: Random House, 1965
  • Frank, Leonard Roy, ed.
    • The History of Shock Treatment
  • Funk, Wendy
    • What Difference Does It Make? The Journey of a Soul Survivor. Vancouver: Wild Flower Publishers, 1999
  • Charles Gant, MD
    • ADD/ADHD: Complimentary Medicine Solutions
    • End Your Addiction Now
  • Joseph Glenmullen, MD
    • Prozac Backlash - Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000).
  • Richard Gosden
    • Punishing the Patient
  • Janet & Paul Gotkin
    • Too Much Anger, Too Many Tears: A Personal Triumph Over Psychiatry (HarperPerennial, New York,1992). This autobiography by a psychiatric patient and her husband shows how she and many others have been harmed by psychiatry.
  • Jeanine Grobe
    • Beyond Bedlam
  • Margaret A. Hagen, Ph.D.
    • Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice (Regan Books/HarperCollins, New York, 1997).  In addition to showing why psychiatrists and psychologists should not be recognized as expert witnesses in court, this book includes a very effective critique of so-called psychotherapy.
  • Abram Hoffer, MD
    • Orthomolecular Treatment for Schizophrenia
  • Allan V. Horwitz
    • Creating Mental Illness, University of Chicago Press, 2002
  • Richard Hughes and Robert Brewin
    • The Tranquilizing of America: Pill Popping and the American Way of Life
  • Diana Hunter
    • The Ritalin-Free Child: Managing hyperactivity and attention deficits without drugs
  • Don D. Jackson, M.D.
    • Myths of Madness - New Facts for Old Fallacies (Macmillan 1964).
  • Kittrie, Nicholas N.
    • The Right To Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore:1971).
  • Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok
    • The Tormented Mind
  • Lapon, Lenny
    • Mass Murderers in White Coats: Psychiatric Genocide in the United States and Nazi Germany
  • Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D.
    • Against Therapy (Atheneum, New York, 1988)
  • Modrow, John
    • How to Become A Schizophrenic: The Case Againt Biological Psychiatry, 2nd edition, Apollyon Press,1992
  • Frank, K. Portland, ed.
    • The Anti-Psyciatry Bibliography and Resource Guide (2nd edition, revised and expanded). Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1979
  • Doris Rapp, MD
    • Is This Your Child? Discovering and treating unrecognized allergies in children and adults
  • Reaume, Geoffrey
    • Remembrance of Patients Past: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940. Oxford U. Press, 2000
  • Colin A. Ross, M.D., and Alvin Pam, Ph.D.
    • Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry - Blaming the Body (John Wiley & sons, Inc., New York, 1995)
  • Julia Ross, MA
    • The Mood Cure
  • Lorenzo Samuel
    • Shrink Assault
  • Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky
    • The Myth of the Hyperactive Child & Other Means of Child Control
  • Shimrat, Irit
    • Call Me Crazy: Stories From the Mad Movement. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1997
  • Simmons, Harvey G
    • Unbalanced: Mental Health Policy in Ontario. 1930-1989. Toronto: Wall & Thompson, 1990
  • Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
    • The Myth of Mental Illness. 2nd edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1974
    • Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry (Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 1989)
    • Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
    • The Manufacture of Madness. New York: Dell Publishing Co./Delta, 1971
    • Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books, 1976
    • Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences: NY: Wiley, 1987
    • Cruel Compassion
  • E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.
    • The Death of Psychiatry (Chilton Book Company, Radnor, Pa., 1974).
  • Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
    • Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?
  • Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D.
    • Blaming the Brain: TheTruth About Drugs and Mental Health (Free Press, New York,1998).  This book shows the errors that underlie belief in biochemical theories of so-called mental illness and in the effectiveness of psychiatric drugs.
  • Sydney Walker III, M.D.
    • A Dose of Sanity
  • Ethan Watters & Richard Ofshe
    • Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried (Scribner, New York, 1999)
  • Melvyn R. Werbach, MD
    • Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness
  • Robert Whitaker
    • Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill RECOMMENDED
  • Bruce Wiseman, President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights
    • Psychiatry, The Ultimate Betrayal

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