The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A critique of psychiatric drug treatment.
by Joanna Moncrieff  MD, 2008.  Palgrave/MacMillan, UK & NY
 
This is one of the most important books to come out in the last few years that exposes the truth about the toxicity and innapropriate claims and marketing of most of the currently used psychiatric drugs, from anti-depressants to "mood stabilizers" [actually only anti-epilepsy drugs], including Lithium, to anti-psychotics. I will write a brief review of this excellent book and post it here within the next few weeks. In the meantime, some of you may wish to check it out on these websites.
 
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283272
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Myth-Chemical-Cure-Psychiatric-Treatment/dp/0230574319

http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Chemical-Cure-Psychiatric-Treatment/dp/0230574319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203289092&sr=1-1
 
Two example quotes from chapter 13, include, "The institution of psychiatry, aided and abetted by the pharmacutical industry and ultimately by the state, has constructed a system of false knowledge about the nature of psychiatric drugs. This ideology acts to obscure the actual effects these drugs produce. ... For example, the long-term use of neuroleptics [anti-psychotic] drugs is based on flawed studies, which can not distinguish true prophylactic effects from the problems induced by drug withdrawal."
 
Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.
 
Atlanta, Ga