Ebook: Unsafe at Any Dose: Exposing Psychiatric Dogmas, So Minds Can Heal, Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good

‘Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good’ – not a comfortable statement to read. Your first reaction is likely to be shock, your second, disbelief. After all, doctors have a long and rigorous training – if something was wrong, surely they would be the first to point it out. Sadly, too many doctors share your disbelief. They keep splashing out psychiatric drugs, as if their futures depended on it. For the last 50 years doctors, with few honourable exceptions, have steadfastly ignored the solid, irrefutable evidence that psychiatric drugs prolong disease.

Robert Whitaker’s book ‘Mad In America’ gives chapter and verse on the full range of damning scientific evidence. Whitaker himself hoped that by presenting the scientific data, in a calm straightforward manner, matters would improve. Sadly his venture failed. This book is therefore a further attempt along the same lines – in effect it says, “Wake up! There’s more to psychiatry and to life, than psychiatric teaching currently allows.”

Unless this teaching is changed, we are all destined to be treated as mindless unfeeling robots, gummed up by psychiatric drugs. Indeed closer scrutiny shows that today’s psychiatric foundations are built on sand. My earlier book ‘Emotional Health’ discusses why – here I describe what it is like from the psychiatrist’s point of view, and show how a reawakened psychiatry could heal more. We are a sociable species – emotional distress of all varieties can generally be cured. After reading it, you might agree that public pressure is needed to rescue us.

This is not an anti-psychiatry book. I have been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1973. I have studied psychiatry intensively since 1963, and have been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 1991. I love it. Since emotions inflict such terrible agonies, it is imperative that we control them, not them us. This is why I now put much effort into establishing Emotion Support Centres, where ‘recoverers help others recover’