Psychiatric Drugs Causing Compulsive Violence

[Monica]

Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime by Peter R. Breggin

In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral reactions, including suicide, violence, emotional breakdowns, and criminal acts. Dr. Breggin explains his concept of “medication spellbinding”: individuals taking psychiatric drugs may have no idea whatsoever that their mental conditions are deteriorating and that their actions are no longer under control. He proves his argument by documenting dozens of cases from his practice and his consultations in legal cases.
Reading like a thriller, the book also examines how the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical establishment continue to oversell the value of these drugs, and he provides information on how to safely stop taking psychiatric medications. Medication Madness is a compelling and frightening read as well as a cautionary tale about our reliance on medicine to fix what ails us.

from a review:

Psychotropics: Unsafe At Any Dose July 17, 2008
By Dr. Dathan Paterno
Format:Hardcover
For years, I have questioned how any mental health clinician could believe that psychotropic were safe or effective, with such a mountain of evidence showing that they are neither. In my practice, I have sat with many clients who were on psychiatric drugs; while none of them had really gotten better from them, so many of them seemed oblivious to this.

This book satisfies my question. They were "spellbound" by the drugs themselves: by the pharmacological properties of the drugs themselves and by the professionals who convinced them that the drugs were going to help.

It is easy to prove to an objective person that psychiatric drugs are unsafe and useless; the data are compelling, even overwhelming. But I now understand that the person taking these drugs is and cannot be objective about the drugs. This is quite helpful to me clinically.

I recommend ALL of Dr. Breggin's books; this is one of his most rigorously researched, persuasive, and conclusive yet.

and another:

Breggin wouldn't quarrel with the idea that intoxicants and stimulants damage or interfere with the brain - that's his thesis re all psych drugs (see, Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry). But he would - rightly - object to the idea that the best way to help someone whose normal brain function has been disrupted by drugs of any kind, is to give him/her still more drugs. There is plenty of evidence (see The Open Dialogue Method of working with psychosis) that non-drug treatment works best with people who have serious mental/emotional problems, including those whose problems stem from substance abuse.