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Toxic Psychiatry
Peter R. Breggin MD

Toxic Psychiatry

why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the "new psychiatry"

St Martins Press (Aug 1991)
9780312059750
| Book - Hardcover
464 pages | 160 x 239 mm | English
$ 32.95 | Value: $ 32.95
Dewey 616.891
LC Classification RC341 .B74 1991
LC Control No. 91000113

Genre

  • Psychological Health

Subject

  • General Concerns (PSY-GE)

Plot

A psychiatrist's devastating critique of how the new psychiatry is damaging millions of people. Biopsychiatry, says Dr. Breggin, is the dominant ideology of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment which frequently announces breakthroughs in brain chemistry to justify the use of drugs, electroshock, involuntary hospitalization, and other harsh treatments.