Having suffered from bi-polar disorder some forty-seven years, I take great exception to Dr. Breggin's book. Dr. Breggin, do you know of what you speak. I do. I have received some 300 ECT's , insulin therapy and quite a few other treatments of the "barbaric" variety. I wouldn't be writing this review, nor the father of five very productive children if if weren't for these treatments. I served as an advocate for ECT before my state's legislature in 1998 when the state was trying to "outlaw" these treatments. They didn't, incidentally. No, I would have preferred other forms of therapy, but in my particular case they have offered prompt solutions to depressions which would have completely debilitated me and prevented my being able to function altogether. So I suggest the good "doc" take a few of these treatments himself and get back in the real enlightened world of mental health treatment. As for psychotropic drugs, I'll gladly keep taking mine, until someone comes along with the ability to "ward off evil spirits".

Dr. Breggin continues to be the critcally needed conscience of fraud psychiatry with its junk science and fraud theories promoted as proven science on a naive, gullible public brainwashed by the current nazi doctors, creators of the Holocaust, all genocide after practicing their murderous arts on those labelled mentally ill in the nazi era, which they used in the wars against women, children, blacks and any other powerless victims they could exploit to further their evil fraud, greed and power as the USA BIG BOTHER organization funded and promoted by their cohorts BIGPHARMA, the noble, courageous Dr. Peter Breggin exposes with fact after fact and all too many real studies. I feel sorry for those brainwashed by these evil frauds as I was in the past unable to do their own research like me as a Division scholar librarian. Dr. Breggin has a growing number of like minded ETHICAL whistleblowers fighting at great costs to expose these evil child killer psychiatrists with their current horrific assaults against humanity. Fortunately, ethical neurologists like Dr. Fred Baughman and others horrified by the psychiatric fraud against innocent babies no less to kill them at the youngest age have joined the noble Dr. Breggin in exposing the absolute FRAUD of BIGPHARMA funded psychiatrists, the APA, NAMI, CHADD, the dishonest Surgeon General, the FDA, the medical journals and all other government and other agencies getting rich and gaining much totalitarian power, their real job always, and profit to rob their victims of their minds, bodies, spirits and ALL DUE PROCESS AND CIVIL rights as "WHORES OF THE COURT" in our so called democratic USA. Like Dr. Baughman ask any of the BIGPHARMA backed frauds above to cite the exact scientific evidence, journal articles, proof, documentation that proves the evil lie brainwashing biomedical reductionist THEORIES perpetrated as proven science as he did the Surgeon General, psychiatrists, the APA and others and either he got NO RESPONSE or weak admissions that such PROOF does not exist YET after billions of wasted tax and other funds for many years to perpetrate this destructive fraud against unsuspecting victims trusting them as the doctors they pretend to be with their ongoing MAD DOCTORING as Dr. Breggin exposes here and all too clearly elsewhere along with a growing number of outraged ethical people within and without this evil profession that MUST be eliminated once and for all before we are a destroyed nation of zombies with no brains and cripples in their evil dictatorship they have almost totally accomplishied in the USA and are trying to inflict on other countries worldwide where the so called mentally ill there have proven they recover without this evil treatment while their psychiatric victims in the USA often do not and Dr. Breggin exposes why in this critically needed book and his others to save victims once they catch on to the evil fraud and destruction of their lives by these evil witch hunters in the guise of help. Dr. Breggin exposes why Dr. Loren Mosher, another famous and successful psychiatrist with impeccable credentials resigned from the APA in disgust for its incestuous relationship with the huge drug industry for greed and profit at the cost of countless lives, babies and children no less, to show their evil has no limits. Read this and other of Dr.Breggin's and similar antipsychiatry books and sites and know why these evil fraud so called doctors are the only ones who need massive security and guards because they fear their nonviolent protesting "former not so satisfied "patients" with their destroyed lives or survival at untold costs. I pity anyone who has fallen for the evil fraud of ADD, bipolar, depression and other so called fraud unproven junk science promoted as proven diseases and proven brain imbalances to show these people have no ethics, conscience or concern about the TRUTH whatever and freely repeat these evil lies in government documents, medical journals by BIGPHARMA with psychiatrist ghost writers exposed despite all evidence to the contrary. Dr. Peter Breggin like Dr. Baughman exposes that any so called brain damage or differences they find and use fraudulently as evidence for their fraud is iatrogenic or toxic drug damage from their toxic drugs and treatments after they inflict their fraudulent victim blaming misdiagnoses when they know all too well that anyone they trap in their webs of deceit have been abused and traumatized or have serious live problems they exploit to totally destroy the victim seeking help, making them helpless, trapped and less able to escape or cope, a shocking horrible betrayal and exploitation of people in crisis. YOU MUST READ THIS AND ALL DR. BREGGIN's CRITICAL BOOKS exposing this evil fraud and all those ethical whistleblowers you can be sure BIGPHARMA and their psyhchiatric cohorts and drug funded organizations like NAMI passing the buck of their evil, bad parenting or attempts to eliminate competitors for money and power as they have historically and will do all to attack and discredit as they spout their junk pseudoscience and pretend it is proven fact as usual since the truth has no meaning from a group like the APA that openly admits to "dancing with the devil," BIGPHARMA, they admit they must then allow to "call the shots" and they sure do as Dr. Breggin exposes here and elsewhere. See his excellent website and other courageous honest ethical heroes courageously exposing this evil fraud at great cost to themselves. They like other heroes deserve our support. BUY THIS BOOK and avoid the mental death profession like the plague. BEEN THERE WITH PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL CAREER AND LIFE DESTROYED BY A NAZI DOCTOR in about 15 minutes with a life death sentence, a bunchof toxic drugs sure to make me crazy when I wasn't then, real doctoring; no, MAD DOCTORING FROM THE REAL CRAZIES with "delusional dominating disorder" as exposed by Dr. Paula Caplan in THEY SAY YOUR CRAZY, another excellent exposure among a growing number protesting pschychiatric evil and fraud.

This book helped my son, but unfortunately the information it contains came to me too late to help a woman friend whose brain was severely damaged by neuroleptic drugs. My son was taking a popular anti-depressant administered by a Psychaitrist. He was able to get out of bed which was some improvement in his condition and was limping along through life when I told him of the possible destructive effects and essential ineffectualness of these psychaiatric drugs which attack symptoms only. He immediately fired his psychaitrist whose sessions consisted merely of asking him if he felt better, contacted a psychologist and started a course of talk therapy. There were times when he hated me, times when he hated his mother, but now he is doing fine without the need for drugs. I have done considerable research on the findings outlined in the book. The National Library of Health website is full of articles confirming the incredibly destructive effects of these drugs on a significant percentage of patients.