Recommended reading

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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
by Charles Barber
Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans.
ISBN-13: 9780375423994- 304 pages




Prozac Backlash
Joseph Glenmullen
Overcoming the dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Other Antidepressants With Safe, Effective Alternatives.
ISBN: 0684860015 - 585 pages


Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety
Robert Gerzon
A wonderful book dealing with the general rise of anxiety in today's society. It intimately approaches the failure of business to accommodate humanity in terms of their fallibility when pushed like a machine.
ISBN: 055337978X - 337 pages


Power Over Panic
Bronwyn Fox
Freedom from Panic/Anxiety Related Disorders
ISBN: 0962732710 - 110 pages


From Panic to Power
Lucinda Bassett
Proven techniques to calm your anxieties, conquer your fears, and put you in control of your life.
ISBN: 0060927585 - 263 pages


Quantum Healing
Deepak Chopra
Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine.
ISBN: 0553348698 - 272 pages


The Anti-Depressant Fact Book
Peter Breggin
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox
ISBN: 073820451X - 128 pages


Let Them Eat Prozac
David Healy
The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
ISBN: 0814736696 - 462 pages


When a Child's Mind Screams
R. Janis
'Macey's story' tells of a mother's battle with professionals over the medication of her small child. How does a parent react when she discovers her child has been medicated with drugs that should never be given to a child? This parent fights back; she learns how to cope and get her child off the medications that caused her so much grief. Read this book for the sake of your own children and never forget to 'get a second opinion'.
ISBN: 1894936329 - 109 pages


Overdosed America : The Broken Promise of American Medicine
John Abramson
We all know that health care and prescription drug costs are skyrocketing, but few doubt the excellence of American medicine. John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals, in the same clear language that he used with his patients, how the corporate takeover of clinical research and medical practice is compromising Americans' health. You -- and your doctor -- will be stunned by his findings.
ISBN: 0060568526 - 352 pages
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