Toxic Psychiatry

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Toxic Psychiatry
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Breggin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenrePopular psychology
ISBN/Barcode 9780006378037
ClassificationsDewey:616.89
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint Flamingo
Publication Date 15 March 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

One of America's most controversial writers in the field, Breggin, writes about the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA, where such things are used as cure-alls. He details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnosed by psychiatrists as schizophrenic, depressed, panic disordered, hyperactive, and learning disabled, and documents how many of these conditions can be healed through love, guidance, empathy, family therapy, rehabilitation and the teaching of coping skills. And how psychiatry, motivated by power and money, increasingly favours chemical and mechanistic interventions.