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Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy & Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock & Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatry

A psychiatrist's devastating critique of how the new psychiatry is damaging millions of people. Biopsychiatry, says Dr. Breggin, is the dominant ideology of the medical-pharmaceutical establishment which frequently announces breakthroughs in brain chemistry to justify the use of drugs, electroshock, involuntary hospitalization, and other harsh treatments.

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long · 578 pages

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