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People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

People of the Lie: the Hope For Healing Human Evil

by M. Scott Peck MD

A description of the author's experience of psychiatric therapy with patients who appear manifestly evil which attempts to show that a spiritual or even religious dimension is required to aid in the understanding of human nature.

Enough Is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living DysfunctionallyKaren Finley

Enough Is Enough: Weekly Meditations for Living Dysfunctionally

by Karen Finley

A humorous take on the self-help revolution provides daily meditations on living with all sorts of fetishes, obsessions, and nasty little dysfunctions. National ad/promo. Tour.

The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion

The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion

by Thomas Armstrong

A psychologist challenges current diagnoses of Attention Deficit Disorder and shows how to deal with hyperactivity and short attention spans through practical strategies for making the most of a child's vitality and creativity. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

Satan's ChildrenRobert Mayer

Satan's Children

Shocking True Accounts of Satanism, Abuse, and Multiple Personality

by Robert Stanley Mayer

In Through Divided Minds (1988), N.Y.C. psychologist Mayer reported warmly on his work with sufferers of multiple personality disorder (MPD); here, he writes an equally compassionate account of his treatment of multiples possibly created by satanic cults. Cheesy chapter titles--``Education in Evil,'' ``The Slasher,'' ``The She-Satan,'' etc.--belie Mayer's humane approach to his hot-potato subject, which... (more)

Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness

Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness

by Brant Wenegrat

There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat... (more)

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

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

by Peter Roger Breggin

Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost? In this searing, myth-shattering exposé, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises... (more)

Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental IllnessElliot S. Valenstein

Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness

by Elliot S. Valenstein

Neuropsychologist Valenstein (Brain Control, etc.) here offers a critical and academic history of psychosurgery that he deems a "cautionary tale." The same factors that contributed to the rapid, injudicious acceptance of the lobotomy operationdesperate patients and their families, overcrowded mental institutions, sensationalism by the popular media, physicians' self-aggrandizementtoday still play a major role in... (more)

The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress: Comparisons With Psychotherapy and Placebo

Broadly scanning the biologically oriented treatments for psychological disorders in 20th century psychiatry, the authors raise serious questions about the efficacy of the somatic treatments for psychological distress and challenge the widespread preference for biologically based treatments as the treatments of choice. For graduate and undergraduate courses in clinical, social, and health psychology, behavioral... (more)

Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers

Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers

Successful coming down from psychiatric drugs primarily addresses treated people who want to withdraw on their own decision. It also addresses their relatives and therapists. Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, for example Haldol, Prozac or Zyprexa. To them, detailed accounts of how others came off these substances without once again ending up in the in the doctor's office are of fundamental interest. (more)

Abuse of trust: The career of Dr. James TyhurstChristopher Hyde

Abuse of trust: The career of Dr. James Tyhurst

by Christopher Hyde

Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

Daggers of the Mind: Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

by Gordon Warme

I'm EveChris Costner Sizemore

I'm Eve

by Chris Costner Sizemore

the snake pitMary Jane Ward

the snake pit

by Mary Jane Ward

The 3 Faces of Eve

by Corbett H.; Cleckley, Hervey M. Thigpen

They Asked for Death: A case-history survey of homicidal killings and

Anatomy of Eve

The Hyperactivity Hoax

by Sydney Walker

Each year, millions of children take Ritalin, which means thousands of doctors are diagnosing them with hyperactivity or ADD. But what do these diagnoses mean? Are drugs the answer for these illnesses? And most importantly, is your child getting the proper treatment for his or her problem? In The Hyperactivity Hoax , neuropsychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker cogently explores the medical minefield of hyperactivity and... (more)

Breakdown: Sex, Suicide, and the Harvard PsychiatristEileen McNamara

Breakdown: Sex, Suicide, and the Harvard Psychiatrist

by Eileen McNamara

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams. The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view... (more)

Minds of Billy Milligan

by Daniel Keyes

A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. Reissue.

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