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Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89
EAN: 9780060538668
ISBN: 006053866X
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 01, 2004
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Editorial Review: How psychopharmacology has usurped the role of psychotherapy in our society, to the great detriment of the patients involved. William Glasser describes in Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health the sea change that has taken place in the treatment of mental health in the last few years. Millions of patients are now routinely being given prescriptions for a wide range of drugs including Ritalin, Prosac, Zoloft and related drugs which can be harmful to the brain. A previous generation of patients would have had a course of psychotherapy without brain–damaging chemicals. Glasser explains the wide implications of this radical change in treatment and what can be done to counter it.
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Rating:  - Great book on choice theory
well recommended from councelor and great book on therapy without drugs.
Rating: - One of my favorite self help books
This, along with "Choice Theory" by the same author are probably my favorite self help books. Do you want an alternative way of dealing with the problems in your life? Try these books. I read many self help books, primarily related to Adlerian Psychology, and these are my favorites.
Rating:  - Overly simplistic - not the information I was looking for
The cover of this book jumped out at me - I was expecting more of an analysis of the psychiatric profession and the methods used over the years. Instead, what I got was a long plug for his own method - Choice Theory.
I have worked with chronically "mentally ill" people for over five years now and have seen cases where medication helped people with schizophrenia make a complete turnaround. No, not every person with schizophrenia wants or needs to take medication, but it can help. Mental ... Read More
Rating:  - lots of opinions and guesses, few facts
The cover and overviews make reference to Glasser's book being supported by facts. So, I was looking forward to it. Unfortunately, it is short on facts and long on his opinions.
Such as where he states that "PERHAPS up to 50% of schizophrenics recover without medical help." Perhaps??? That's a very glib statement supported by a "perhaps."
In one case where he cites a health statistic, it covers the period "from the 1930s to the 1990s" and is used to discredit medications. ... Read More
Rating: - Exposes the Myth of Psychiatry
Some of the psychiatrists or psychiatrists in training that have reviewed this book are sadly influenced by the ideologies and pressupositions of their industry. The fact is, science has never proven that there is such a thing as a non-organic mental illness. The reason why people behave the way they do and have a variety of symptoms is far more complex than "they are lacking some serotonin." Most psychiatrists have already bought into the myth of chemical imbalance as CAUSATIVE of illness. Deep down they ... Read More
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