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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Toxic Psychiatry Why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the “new psychiatry. Toxic Psychiatry remains Dr. Breggin’s most complete overview of psychiatry and psychiatric medication. It has influenced many professionals and lay persons to transform their views on the superior value of psychosocial approaches compared to medication and electroshock. The book was written in 1991, but the reader can obtain more recent information on specific drugs from Dr. Breggin’s more recent books, especially his new medical text Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (Second edition, Springer Publishing Company, New York, 2008). Together these two books, Toxic Psychiatry and Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, provide the broadest coverage of Dr. Breggin’s critique of psychiatry. The Heart of Being Helpful provides the most readable and detailed discussion of his approach to psychotherapy. Poster Comment: While I do not always go 1-1 with Dr. Breggin's views I do support his crusade against damaging so-called Quack treatments often prescribed by the toxic mainstream. One man who also waged a crusade against this evil was Dr. Thomas Szasz. He has passed on now but he left a body of work well worth investigating. "Dr. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and a Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is perhaps the world’s leading social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, having authored more than 35 books on the subject, starting with The Myth of Mental Illness, a book which rocked the world of psychiatry upon its release more than 50 years ago. Szasz would later state, “My great, unforgivable sin in The Myth of Mental Illness was calling public attention to the linguistic pretensions of psychiatry and its preemptive rhetoric. Who can be against ‘helping suffering patients’ or ‘treating treatable diseases’? Who can be for ‘ignoring sick people’ or, worse, ‘refusing patients life-saving treatment’? Rejecting that jargon, I insisted that mental hospitals are like prisons not hospitals, that involuntary mental hospitalization is a type of imprisonment not medical care, and that coercive psychiatrists function as judges and jailers not physicians and healers, and suggested that we view and understand ‘mental illnesses’ and psychiatric responses to them as matters of law and rhetoric, not matters of medicine or science. ...” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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