Long-time activist Don Weitz has composed this list of his favorite books critical of psychiatric drugs.


CRITICAL AND RECOMMENDED READINGS ONPSYCHIATRIC DRUGS


compiled by Don Weitz

Peter Breggin. Talking Back toRitalin: What doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants forchildren. (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998)

Peter Breggin & David Cohen. YourDrug May Be Your Problem (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999)

Peter Breggin. Medication Madness:The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide andMurder. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008)

Erick Fabris. Tranquil Prisons:Chemical Incarceration Under Community Treatment Orders (Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Joseph Glenmullen. Prozac Backlash.(New York:: Simon & Schuster, 2000)

Peter Lehmann, ed. Coming OffPsychiatric Drugs (Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing, 2001)

Lars Martensson. Deprived of OurHumanity: The Case Against Neuroleptic Drugs (Geneva: TheVoiceless Movement, 1998).

Thomas Szasz. Pharmacracy: Medicineand Politics in America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001)

Robert Whitaker. Mad in America: BadScience, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentallyill (Reading,MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002)

Robert Whitaker. Anatomy of anEpidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Riseof Mental Illness in America (New York: Crown Publishers, 2010)

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