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Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off — and Staying off — Psychiatric Drugs
Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off — and Staying off — Psychiatric Drugs

Anders Sørensen

2025

Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life - And My Fight to Get it Back
Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life - And My Fight to Get it Back

Laura Delano

2025

Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Joanna Moncrieff

2025

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs (The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines Series)
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs (The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines Series)

Mark Horowitz, David M. Taylor

2024

Génération zombie: Enquête sur le scandale des antidépresseurs
Génération zombie: Enquête sur le scandale des antidépresseurs

Ariane Denoyel

2021

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (second edition): The Truth about how they work and how to come off them
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (second edition): The Truth about how they work and how to come off them

Joanna Moncrieff

2020

The Zyprexa Papers
The Zyprexa Papers

Jim Gottstein

2020

Recovery and Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants
Recovery and Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants

Baylissa Frederick

2017

Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, Dsm-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, Dsm-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

Allen Frances MD

2014

Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

James Davies

2013

Death By Prescription
Death By Prescription

Terence Young

2011

The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

Irving Kirsch

2009

The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction"
The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction"

Joseph Glenmullen

2006

No Such Thing as Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of Psychiatry
No Such Thing as Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of Psychiatry

Marieke Bigg

2025

The Age of Diagnosis: The powerful investigation into the pros and cons of medical labels
The Age of Diagnosis: The powerful investigation into the pros and cons of medical labels

Suzanne O’Sullivan

2025

Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health
Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health

Jo Watson

2024

What Happened To John?: A memoir of enduring love, mental health, and suicide
What Happened To John?: A memoir of enduring love, mental health, and suicide

Denise Collins

2022

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

Horatio Clare

2021

Malcharist
Malcharist

Paul John Scott

2020

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

Nathan Filer

2019

The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants

Katinka Blackford Newman

2016

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.)
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.)

John Abramson

2013

How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

Edward Shorter

2013

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Robert Whitaker

2011

Dying for a Cure
Dying for a Cure

Rebekah Beddoe

2009

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs
Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs

Stephen Fried

1999

Seeking Soteria: Being in Process
Seeking Soteria: Being in Process

Eugene Larkin

2025

Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins
Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins

Edward L. Jones

2025

Unstill: The Ordeal of Anxiety, Pills, and an Undiagnosed Disorder. A Memoir
Unstill: The Ordeal of Anxiety, Pills, and an Undiagnosed Disorder. A Memoir

Lenny Gallo

2024

Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence

Beverley Thomson

2022

Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them
Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them

Sami Timimi

2021

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban

2020

Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope
Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope

Johann Hari

2019

Her Lost Year: A Story of Hope and a Vision for Optimizing Children's Mental Health
Her Lost Year: A Story of Hope and a Vision for Optimizing Children's Mental Health

Tabita Green

2015

Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It

Ben Goldacre

2013

Dear Luise: A story of power and powerlessness in Denmark's psychiatric care system
Dear Luise: A story of power and powerlessness in Denmark's psychiatric care system

Dorrit Cato Christensen

2012

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

Ethan Watters

2010

Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher
Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher

Gwen Olsen

2009

The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial
The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial

John Cornwell

1996

Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity
Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity

Sami Timimi

2025

Unshackled Mind: A Doctor’s Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing
Unshackled Mind: A Doctor’s Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing

Cathy Wield

2025

Beyond Diagnosis: A paradigm shift from pathology to innate health
Beyond Diagnosis: A paradigm shift from pathology to innate health

Chana Studley

2024

The Insomnia Diaries: How I learned to sleep again
The Insomnia Diaries: How I learned to sleep again

Miranda Levy

2021

Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence
Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence

Patrick D. Hahn

2020

Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

Joseph E. Davis

2020

Dépressions, antidépresseurs: Psychotropes et drogues
Dépressions, antidépresseurs: Psychotropes et drogues

Philippe Even, Bernard Debré

2018

Crazy And It Was: Surviving the Corporate Pharmaceutical Corruption of Western Medicine
Crazy And It Was: Surviving the Corporate Pharmaceutical Corruption of Western Medicine

Laurie Oakley

2015

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

Peter Gotzsche

2013

Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are
Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are

Katherine Sharpe

2012

Hurry Down Sunshine
Hurry Down Sunshine

Michael Greenberg

2009

Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (Medicine, Culture, and History)
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (Medicine, Culture, and History)

David Healy

2006

Adverse Reactions
Adverse Reactions

Thomas Maeder

1994

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