Great Reads

Shannon brings together a comprehensive overview of CAM treatments, with information on their effectiveness and safety. Modalities covered include acupuncture, nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, meditation,

Are patients aware of the fact that pharmacological therapies stress the brain in ways which may prevent or postpone symptomatic and functional recovery? This book

Pediatric psychiatrist Shannon (writing with Emily Heckman) argues that physicians are over-diagnosing and misdiagnosing a number of disorders, most notably ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder),

  This controversial book overturns the claim that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have

Kaplan draws heavily on his forty years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and professor of child psychiatry to make the argument that bipolar disorder

This searing indictment tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to

Why does Western medicine fail to cure chronic physical and mental illness? Why do so many treatments and drugs work only for a limited time

  In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her

This review by Bertram Karon, PhD, makes a crucial point: “Peter Breggin has more experience in safely withdrawing psychiatric patients from medication than any other psychiatrist.

Award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past