This book can help people with mental health issues to survive and return to a normal life. Citizens believe, and the science shows, that medications for depression and psychosis and admission to a psychiatric ward are more often harmful than beneficial. Yet most patients take psychiatric drugs for years. Doctors have made hundreds of millions of patients dependent on psychiatric drugs without knowing how to help them taper off the drugs safely, which can be very difficult. The book explains in detail how harmful psychiatric drugs are and gives detailed advice about how to come off them.
You will learn:
- why you should not see a psychiatrist if you have a mental health issue
- that psychiatric drugs are addictive
- that the biggest lie in psychiatry is the one about a chemical imbalance being the cause of psychiatric disorders
- that psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific and that doctors disagree widely when making diagnoses
- that psychiatric drugs can lead to permanent brain damage
- that psychiatric drugs should never be stopped abruptly because withdrawal reactions can be dangerous
- why psychotherapy and other psychosocial interventions should be preferred over drugs
- why you should generally not believe what doctors tell you about psychiatric disorders and their treatment
- why volunteers have found the book so important that they have translated it into French, Portuguese and Spanish
"Peter G tzsche's new book meets patients' need to get tools on how to deal with psychoactive drugs and, above all, not to start them. G tzsche is very clear about the role of GPs in medicalizing grief, misfortune, opposition, and bad luck." -- Dick Bijl, former GP, epidemiologist, and current president of the International Society of Drug Bulletins.
"Peter G tzsche has written a very personal account of his battle to get the institution of psychiatry to accept that its drugs are not the 'magic pills' they are made out to be. Every medical practitioner who prescribes them, and every person who takes them, should read this book and be warned." -- Niall McLaren, author of Anxiety: The Inside Story
"Peter G tzsche wrote this book to help people with mental health problems survive and return to a normal life. His book explains in detail how psychiatric drugs are harmful and people are told how they can safely withdraw from them." -- Fernando Freitas, PhD, Psychologist, National School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ). Co-editor of Mad in Brazill
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From the Institute for Scientific Freedom
Gøtzsche, Peter C.: - Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. With about 80 others, he co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 (the founder is Sir Iain Chalmers), and established the Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen and has been a member of the Cochrane Governing Board twice. He now works freelance. Became visiting Professor, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University in 2019. Founded the Institute for Scientific Freedom in 2019.Gøtzsche has published more than 75 papers in "the big five" (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 150,000 times. His most recent books are: -Vaccines: truth, lies and controversy (2020). -Survival in an overmedicated world: look up the evidence yourself (2019).-Death of a whistleblower and Cochrane's moral collapse (2019).-Deadly psychiatry and organised denial (2015).-Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care (2013) (Winner, British Medical Association's Annual Book Award in the category Basis of Medicine in 2014).-Mammography screening: truth, lies and controversy (2012) (Winner of the Prescrire Prize 2012).-Rational diagnosis and treatment: evidence-based clinical decision-making (2007).Five of these books have appeared in multiple languages, see deadlymedicines.dk.Gøtzsche has given numerous interviews, one of which, about organised crime in the drug industry, has been seen over 400,000 times on YouTube: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozpAshvtsA. Gøtzsche was in The Daily Show in New York on 16 Sept 2014 where he played the role of Deep Throat revealing secrets about Big Pharma. A documentary film about his reform work in psychiatry, Diagnosing Psychiatry https: //diagnosingpsychiatry.com/filmen/ appeared in 2017.Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He has co-authored the following guidelines for good reporting of research: -CONSORT for randomized trials (www.consort-statement.org), -STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), -PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and-SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Gøtzsche is Protector for the Hearing Voices Network in Denmark.Websites: scientificfreedom.dk and deadlymedicines.dkTwitter: @PGtzsche1
