Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off — and Staying off — Psychiatric Drugs
Anders Sørensen
2025
Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity
Sami Timimi
2025
Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Joanna Moncrieff
2025
Unstill: The Ordeal of Anxiety, Pills, and an Undiagnosed Disorder. A Memoir
Lenny Gallo
2024
Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life - And My Fight to Get it Back
Laura Delano
2024
Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
Rob Wipond
2023
The Myth of Normal: Illness, health & healing in a toxic culture
Gabor Maté
2022
What Happened To John?: A memoir of enduring love, mental health, and suicide
Denise Collins
2022
Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest
Michael P. Hengartner
2021
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
James Davies
2021
Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence
Patrick D. Hahn
2020
Smoke and Mirrors: How You Are Being Fooled About Mental Illness - An Insider's Warning to Consumers
Chuck Ruby
2020
Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
Joseph E. Davis
2020
A Manifesto for Mental Health: Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Peter Kinderman
2019
Death of a Whistleblower and Cochrane’s Moral Collapse
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2019
Survival in an Overmedicated World: Look Up the Evidence Yourself
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2018
Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It′s So Hard to Stop
Anna Lembke
2016
Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
Will Hall
2016
Crazy And It Was: Surviving the Corporate Pharmaceutical Corruption of Western Medicine
Laurie Oakley
2015
A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Peter Kinderman
2014
Dr. Shipko's Informed Consent for SSRI Antidepressants
Stuart Shipko
2013
Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
Stuart A. Kirk
2013
Xanax Withdrawal
Stuart Shipko
2012
Death By Prescription
Terence Young
2011
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whitaker
2010
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Irving Kirsch
2009
Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher
Gwen Olsen
2009
Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex
Peter Breggin
2007
Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent
Grace E. Jackson
2005
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Marcia Angell
2004
Mad in America
Robert Whitaker
2002
The Antidepressant Era
David Healy
1999
The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial
John Cornwell
1996
Adverse Reactions
Thomas Maeder
1994
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
Suzanne O’Sullivan
2025
Whistleblower in Healthcare
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2025
Beyond Diagnosis: A paradigm shift from pathology to innate health
Chana Studley
2024
Is psychiatry a crime against humanity?
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2024
People Not Pathology: Freeing therapy from the medical model
Pete Sanders & Janet Tolan
2023
How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It
Louis Weinstock
2022
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
Ellen Vora
2022
Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A User's Guide
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2021
Génération zombie: Enquête sur le scandale des antidépresseurs
Ariane Denoyel
2021
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
Mary Boyle & Lucy Johnstone
2020
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research
Jon Jureidini & Leemon B. McHenry
2020
The Zyprexa Papers
Jim Gottstein
2020
Deprescribing in Psychiatry
Swapnil Gupta, John Cahill, Rebecca Miller
2019
Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope
Johann Hari
2019
Medical Nihilism
Jacob Stegenga
2018
Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice
Natalie Tobert
2016
Her Lost Year: A Story of Hope and a Vision for Optimizing Children's Mental Health
Tabita Green
2015
Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2015
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
Joanna Moncrieff
2013
With Hope in My Heart: a Memoir
Baylissa Frederick
2013
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
Edward Shorter
2013
Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are
Katherine Sharpe
2012
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Carl Elliott
2010
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters
2010
A Straight Talking Introduction to Children's Mental Health Problems
Sami Timini
2009
Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime
Peter Breggin
2008
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Will Hall
2007
Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients
Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels
2005
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (Medicine, Culture, and History)
David Healy
2004
Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health
Jay S. Cohen
2001
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
Peter Breggin & David Cohen
1999
They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal
Paula Caplan
1995
Toxic Psychiatry: Drugs and Electroconvulsive Therapy - The Truth and the Better Alternatives
Peter Breggin
1991
The Episode: A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing
Mary Ann Kenny
2025
Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins
Edward L. Jones
2025
Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health
Jo Watson
2024
Theoretical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorder Labeling
Arnoldo Cantú
2024
SHUT UP AND KEEP TAKING THE PILLS!
Hazel Amanda Jones
2023
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems
John Read & Pete Sanders
2022
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Brooke Siem
2022
Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Beverley Thomson
2022
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice
Lucy Johnstone
2021
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
Horatio Clare
2021
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs (second edition): The Truth about how they work and how to come off them
Joanna Moncrieff
2020
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Katherine Eban
2020
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
Nathan Filer
2019
Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Jo Watson
2019
Dépressions, antidépresseurs: Psychotropes et drogues
Philippe Even, Bernard Debré
2018
Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens
Art Levine
2017
Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
Jasna Russo & Angela Sweeney
2016
Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform
Robert Whitaker with Lisa Cosgrove
2015
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
2014
Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
Ben Goldacre
2013
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
2013
Dear Luise: A story of power and powerlessness in Denmark's psychiatric care system
Dorrit Cato Christensen
2012
Pharmageddon
David Healy
2012
Psychiatryland: How to Protect Yourself from Pill-Pushing Psychiatrists and Develop a Personal Plan for Optimal Mental Health
Phillip Sinaikin
2010
Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail
Richard P Bentall
2009
Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime
Grace E. Jackson
2009
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
Alison Bass
2008
The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment
Joanna Moncrieff
2007
The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction"
Joseph Glenmullen
2005
Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Distress
Terry Lynch
2004
The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox
Peter Breggin
2001
Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs
Stephen Fried
1999
Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Won’t Tell You About Today’s Most Controversial Drug: What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants
Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin
1994
The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
Thomas S. Szasz
1970
Seeking Soteria: Being in Process
Eugene Larkin
2025
Unshackled Mind: A Doctor’s Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing
Cathy Wield
2025
Loving Someone through Benzo Withdrawal: A Caregiver, Family, and Friend's Guide
Stacey Uhlman
2024
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs (The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines Series)
Mark Horowitz, David M. Taylor
2024
Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes
2023
A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry - Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking and Radical Enlightenment
Bruce E. Levine
2022
Psychiatric Drugs Explained
David Healy
2022
Critical Psychiatry Textbook
Peter C. Gøtzsche
2022
The Insomnia Diaries: How I learned to sleep again
Miranda Levy
2021
Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them
Sami Timimi
2021
Malcharist
Paul John Scott
2020
Children of the Cure
David Healy
2020
Guidance for Psychological Therapists - Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs
A. Guy, J. Davies, R. Rizq
2019
We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model
Liz Demi Green & Kelechi Ubozoh
2019
Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
Noël Hunter
2018
Recovery and Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants
Baylissa Frederick
2017
The Pill That Steals Lives: One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
Katinka Blackford Newman
2016
Tales from the Madhouse: An insider critique of psychiatric services
Gary Sidley
2015
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Lucy Johnstone
2014
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
Peter Gotzsche
2013
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
James Davies
2013
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families
Peter Breggin
2012
Drugging Our Children: How Profiteers Are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop It
Sharna Olfman & Brent Dean Robbins
2012
Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis
Daniel Carlat
2010
Hurry Down Sunshine
Michael Greenberg
2009
Dying for a Cure
Rebekah Beddoe
2009
Our Daily Meds
Melody Petersen
2008
America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics And How We've Been Deceived
Timothy Scott
2006
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.)
John Abramson
2004
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté
2003
Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives
Joseph Glenmullen
2000
Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet
Thomas J. Moore
1999
Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? the Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More
Ann Blake Tracy
1994
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas S. Szasz
1961
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