Books

More and more books are being published raising public awareness concerning the dangers of antidepressant drugs covering different aspects such as books for withdrawal from antidepressants, case histories, legal battles.

This listing does not claim to be complete, and for obvious reason we cannot take responsibility for the content of any of these books as that responsibility lies with the individual author and publisher.

Wherever feasible we have included a link where the book can be purchased.

Prozac: Panacea or Pandora by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy
This book is the product of five years of intensive research, and the cases of approximately 1000 patients on a long-term basis. Learn more than professionals about the SSRI antidepressants . . . safe methods to get off drugs, stay off, and take control of life . . . if you know someone on PROZAC, ZOLOFT, PAXIL, LUVOX, SERZONE, EFFEXOR, ANAFRANIL, FENFLURAMINE (Fen-Phen and Redux), DESERYL, MERIDIA, or any other drug designed to increase Serotonin, you and they both need the information contained in this book.
The book can be bought directly from the author Ann Blake Tracy.

The Anti-Depressant Fact Book by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox. Book can be bought at Amazon.com.

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher by Gwen Olsen
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American’s medicine cabinet, working for 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education came when Gwen's niece committed suicide by setting herself on fire - after having been on a witches brew of medications.
Gwen's website is at http://www.gwenolsen.com.
Her book can be bought at iuniverse.com.

Prescription for Madness by Joy Hancock
A powerful, heart wrenching story of a family whose lives are turned upside down when their oldest child, Christopher, is diagnosed with a mental illness at the age of sixteen. After Christopher starts a six month regime of anti-depressants and anti-psychotic medications the reader will be swept away as the family walks and then runs with Christopher as he rages, becomes increasingly violent, suicidal and ultimately committed to psychiatric hospitals. Her book can be bought at Morgan James Publishing.

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The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Szasz is a foremost authority in the field of psychiatry and one of its most bold and insightful critics. Mental illness is a metaphor (metaphorical disease). The word "disease" denotes a demonstrable biological process that affects the bodies of living organisms (plants, animals, and humans). The term "mental illness" refers to the undesirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of persons. Classifying thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying the whale as a fish. As the whale is not a fish, mental illness is not a disease. Individuals with brain diseases (bad brains) or kidney diseases (bad kidneys) are literally sick. Individuals with mental diseases (bad behaviors), like societies with economic diseases (bad fiscal policies), are metaphorically sick. The classification of (mis)behavior as illness provides an ideological justification for state-sponsored social control as medical treatment. At Amazon.com.

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The Heart Too Long Suppressed by Carol Hebald
documents, from a personal viewpoint, schizophrenia as an unconscious choice. It is my aim that readers might recognize similar choices in themselves, or in loved ones, who have succumbed to the seeming certainty that there are none. ... Finally, I question the widely-held belief that schizophrenia is a brain disease. Hospital records indicate no biomedical condition underlay mine. I am an exception, others exist. Why, despite us, is the international psychiatric community so eager to embrace this latest “definitive” theory? Is it because it lets them, patient families who foot their bills, and patients themselves, off the hook insofar as responsibility for the illness is concerned? This implicit, if not explicit, question lies at the heart of my book. Carol's book can be bought at amazon.com.

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Psyched Out by Kelly O'Meara
This is an in-depth investigation into the fraud of psychiatric diagnosing and the dangerous, potentially life-threatening adverse reactions connected to the prescription mind-altering drugs used as "treatment." Website at www.psychedout.net

Talking Back to Prozac by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Learn: *What Prozac's label won't tell you. *Cases of sexual dysfunction from Prozac, especially in men. *The truth about serious and life-threatening reactions. *If Prozac can lead to violence, murder, or suicide. *The panic and anxiety Prozac can cause--not cure. *What Prozac has in common with cocaine and amphetamines. A book that tells you the truth behind its testing and its potentially frightening side effects. Buy here.

The Antidepressant Solution by M.D. Joseph Glenmullen
A step-by-step guide to safely overcoming antidepressant withdrawal, dependence, and "addiction". The Antidepressant Solution provides the information you and your doctor need to ensure your comfort and safety whenever you start an antidepressant, change the dose, or go off the drug. Book can be bought here.

Prozac Backlash by M.D. Joseph Glenmullen, MD

The Road Back by James L. Harper
The Road Back – How to Get Off Drugs Safely is a step-by-step manual written for the patient or physician. It details how to taper off antidepressants, benzodiazepines, anti-psychotics, and ADHD type medications. The book can be bought here.

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Losing a child by Linda Hurcombe
How do parents survive when their child dies? Linda Hurcombe’s daughter Caitlin died aged 19. "Losing a Child" offers support, information and practical advice for any parent facing the loss of a child, and for everyone – family, friend, professional carer – who is helping them find ways to cope. The author’s aim is to stand beside those who suffer, and help them carry on, even when others find it hard to bear their grief.
Linda's book is available at Sheldonpress.co.uk.

Deeds of Trust by Alesandra Rain
Alesandra was a successful international business woman who began having symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, seizures and depression. The root cause was misdiagnosed, leading to a ten year addiction to multiple prescriptions including Klonopin, Ambien, Restoril, Effexor, Norco, Sinequan and OxyContin. Unable to locate a program, she quit cold turkey and suffered horrifying withdrawals. Alesandra's book can be bought here.

The Truth about the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell
The American pharmaceutical industry needs to be saved, mainly from itself, and Dr. Angell proposes a program of vital reforms, which includes restoring impartiality to clinical research and severing the ties between drug companies and medical education. Written with fierce passion and substantiated with in-depth research, her book is a searing indictment of an industry that has spun out of control.

Escape from Psychiatry by Clover Greene. Clover Greene has gone through solitary confinement, restraints, psychiatric drugging and forced electroshock, over and over... Clover's experiences, and her magnificent recovery, would make a stirring film, with elements of drama, triumph, spirituality, romance and love. By the end I was in tears, as all the pieces of her amazing life came together. Clover's story must be told.

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Calm Energy : How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise by Robert E. Thayer
"YOUR MOODS DETERMINE your enjoyment of life..."

The Anti-depressant Era by David Healy

Let Them Eat Prozac by David Healy

Prescription for Disaster by Thomas J. Moore

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs by Stephen M. Fried

Making Us Crazy by Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk

The Undiscovered Mind by John Horgan

The Power to Harm by John Cornwell

Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot Valenstein

The Shooting Drugs - Prozac and its Generation Exposed on the Internet by Donna Smart

From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test by Seymour Fisher et al.

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