Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace the
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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.
Author: Peter R Breggin, MD
Format: Hardback, 464 pages, 164mm x 242mm, 826 g
Published: 1991, St. Martin's Press, United States
Genre: Family & Health: General
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.