Bob Johnson - Unsafe at Any Dose: Exposing Psychiatric Dogmas, So Minds Can Heal, Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good

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exposing psychiatric dogmas

Consultant Psychiatrist GMC speciality register for psychiatry

formerly Head of Therapy, Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, Liverpool

Consultant Psychiatrist, Special Unit, C-Wing, Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight .

MRCPsych (Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists),

MRCGP (Member of Royal College of General Practitioners).

Diploma in Neurology & Psychiatry (Psychiatric Inst NY),

MA (Psychol), PhD(med computing), MBCS, DPM, MRCS.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A CIP record of this book is available on request from the British Library. ISBN 0-9551985-1-8

ISBN-13 is 978-0-9551985-1-9

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Please note psychiatric drugs are increasingly powerful, they wreak great changes on the chemistry of our brains so do not stop or change their dosage abruptly, nor attempt to do so without adequate support. This is a HEALTH WARNING .

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foreword

Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good not a comfortable statement to read. Your first reaction is likely to be shock, your second, disbelief. After all, doctors have a long and rigorous training if something was wrong, surely they would be the first to point it out. Sadly, too many doctors share your disbelief. They keep splashing out psychiatric drugs, as if their futures depended on it. For the last 50 years doctors, with few honourable exceptions, have steadfastly ignored the solid, irrefutable evidence that psychiatric drugs prolong disease.

Robert Whitakers book Mad In America gives chapter and verse on the full range of damning scientific evidence. Whitaker himself hoped that by presenting the scientific data, in a calm straightforward manner, matters would improve. Sadly his venture failed. This book is therefore a further attempt along the same lines in effect it says, Wake up! Theres more to psychiatry and to life, than psychiatric teaching currently allows.

Unless this teaching is changed, we are all destined to be treated as mindless unfeeling robots, gummed up by psychiatric drugs. Indeed closer scrutiny shows that todays psychiatric foundations are built on sand. My earlier book Emotional Health discusses why here I describe what it is like from the psychiatrists point of view, and show how a reawakened psychiatry could heal more. We are a sociable species emotional distress of all varieties can generally be cured. After reading it, you might agree that public pressure is needed to rescue us.

This is not an anti-psychiatry book. I have been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1973. I have studied psychiatry intensively since 1963, and have been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 1991. I love it. Since emotions inflict such terrible agonies, it is imperative that we control them, not them us. This is why I now put much effort into establishing Emotion Support Centres, where recoverers help others recover.

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list of chapters vii

contents ix

1) WHY IGNORE 50 YEARS OF ADVERSE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE? 1

2) WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TREATING? 20

3) THE DAMAGE IN DETAIL 42

4) SAFER PSYCHIATRY 70

5) EMOTION SUPPORT for Lenny 91

6 : EMOTION SUPPORT for Louise 117

7) EMOTION SUPPORT for Ann 132

8) WHERE WE GO FROM HERE. 165

APPENDIX 180

Contemporary Psychiatric Anomalies 198

Levels Of Violence And Medication In A Special Prison Unit, 1986-1995. 204

Evidence Prepared For The Joint Committee On The Draft Mental Health Bill 209

SELECTED READING LIST 215