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 is a critical appraisal of the medications that an estimated 20% of Americans consume on a regular (and sometime involuntary) basis. It is the philosophically, epidemiologically and scientifically supported revelation of how and why psychiatry’s drug therapies have contributed to a standard of care which frequently does more to harm than to cure.