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READINGS AND REFERENCES

The readings contain references to those who agree and those who disagree with the major views expressed on this Web site.

The starred (*) books are excellent introductions to the natural therapy way. These books clarify not only the effectiveness of a natural approach, but also its scientific basis.

 

Allison, E. Henry (1990) Kant's theory of Freedom. Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press.

American Psychiatric Association (1994) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition). American Psychiatric Association: Washington.

Andrews, Paul W. and Thomson, Anderson, J., Jr., (2009). The Bright Side of Being Blue: Depression as an Adaptation for Analyzing Complex Problems. Psychological Review, 116, No 3, 620-654.

 

Bargmann, E., Wolfe, S., & Levin, J. (1982). Stopping Valium: And Ativan, Centrax, Dalmane, Librium, Paxipam, Restoril, Serax, Tranxene, Xanax. New York: Warner.

Beers, C. (1908). A Mind that Found Itself: An Autobiography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Beliappa, J. (1991). Illness or Distress? Alternative Models of Mental Health. London: Confederation of Indian Organisations.

Berofsky, Bernard (1987). Freedom from Necessity: The Metaphysical Basics of Responsibility. New York and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Blume, E. S. (1990). Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women. New York: Wiley.

*Boyle, Mary. (2003).  Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion? (2nd Ed.) London: Routledge.

Boyers, R., & Orrill, R. (Eds.). (1971). R. D. Laing and Anti-Psychiatry. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Breggin, P. (1970). The Crazy from the Sane. New York: Lyle Stuart.

Breggin, P. (1975). Psychosurgery for political purposes. Duquesne Law Review(13), 841-62.

Breggin, P. (1979). Electroshock: Its Brain-Disabling Effects. New York: Springer.

Breggin, P. (1980). The Psychology of Freedom: Liberty and Love as a Way of Life. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.

Breggin, P. (1981). Disabling the brain with electroshock. In M. Dongier & E. Wittkower (Eds.), Divergent Views in Psychiatry . Hagerstown, MD: Harper and Row.

Breggin, P. (1982). The return of lobotomy and psychosurgery. In R. Edwards (Ed.), Psychiatry and Ethics . Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.

Breggin, P. (1983). Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain. New York: Springer.

Breggin, P. (1986). Neuropathology and Cognitive Dysfunction from ECT. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 478-79.

Breggin, P. (1990). Brain Damage, Dementia and Persistent Cognitive Dysfunction Associated with Neuroleptic Drugs. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11(3 & 4), 425-63.

* Breggin, P. (1993). Toxic Psychiatry. (UK ed.). London: HarperCollins.

* Breggin, P. (1997)  Brain-disabling Treatments in Psychiatry. New York: Springer

* Breggin, P. (1998)  Talking Back to Ritalin. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.

* Breggin, P.  (1999).  Your Drug May Be Your Problem.  Massachusetts: Perseus Books.  

Brothers, Leslie, M.D. (1997) Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, P. (1988). Transfer of Care. London: Routledge.

Brown, P., & Funk, S. (1986). Tardive Dyskinesia: Barriers to the Professional Recognition of an Iatrogenic Disease. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 27, 116-32.

Burstow, B., & Weitz, D. (Eds.). (1988). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Publications.

 

*Caplan, Paula J.  (1995).  They Say You're Crazy.  Massachusetts: Addison Wesley.

Castel, R. (1992). The Regulation of Madness. Oxford: Polity.

Chamberlin, J. (1978). On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System. New York: Hawthorn.

Chavkin, S. (1978). The Mind Stealers: Psychosurgery and Mind Control. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Chesler, P. (1972). Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday.

Clare, A. (1980). Psychiatry in Dissent: Controversial Issues in Thought and Practice. (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Clover (Clover Smith 1999) Escape from Psychiatry: The Autobiography of Clover.  Ignacio, CO: Rainbow Pots & Press. 

Cohen, D. (1990). Challenging the Therapeutic State: Critical Perspectives on Psychiatry and the Mental Health System. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11(3 & 4).

Coleman, L. (1984). The Reign of Error: Psychiatry, Authority, and Law. Boston: Beacon Press.

Coles, G. (1987). The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at 'Learning Disabilities'. New York: Pantheon.

Cookson, Laurie (1999) Our Wild Niche. San Jose, Lincoln, New York, Shanghai: toExcel

Cooper, D. (1967). Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry. London: Tavistock.

Cuddihy, Murray John (1974). The Ordeal of Civility. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.

 

Darling, David (1993). Equations of Eternity.  New York: Hyperion Press.

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1977). Anti-Oedipus. New York: Athlone Press.

Deutsch, A. (1949). The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times. New York: Columbia University Press.

Dilthey, Wilhelm (1923) Introduction to the Human Sciences: An Attempt to Lay a Foundation for the Study of Society and History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Dilthey W (1976) Selected Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Double D B (1990) What would Adolf Meyer have thought of the neo-Kraepelinian approach? Psychiatric Bulletin, 14, 472-474

Double D B (1992a) Understanding schizophrenia. BMJ 1992; 305: 775-6

*Double D B (1992b) Training in "anti-psychiatry". Clinical Psychology Forum 1992, 46, 12-4

Double D B (1998) Can psychiatry be retrieved from a biological approach?

Douglas, Mary (1970) Natural Symbols. New York: Vintage Books: A division of Random House.

Dupre, John (1993) The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of The Disunity of Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press.

Edelman, M. Gerald (1992) Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind. New York: Basic Books: A Member of The Perseus Books Group.

 

Farrell B A (1979) Mental illness: a conceptual analysis. Psychological Medicine, 9, 21-35.

Feldenkrais, Moshe (1992) The Potent Self: The Dynamics of the Body and the Mind. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.

Fireside, H. (1979). Soviet Psychoprisons. New York: Norton.

Fisher, S., & Greenberg, R. (Eds.). (1989). The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress: Comparisons with Psychotherapy and Placebo. Hillsdale, N. J.: Erlbaum.

Forward, S. (1989). Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life. New York: Bantam.

Foucault, M. (1967). Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Tavistock Publications.

Foucault, M. (1987). Mental Illness and Psychology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Friedberg, J. (1976). Shock Treatment Is Not Good for Your Brain. San Francisco: Glide.

Friedberg, J. (1977). Shock treatment, brain damage, memory loss: A neurological perspective. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 1010-13.

 

Gelles, R., & Straus, M. (1988). Intimate Violence: The Causes and Consequences of Abuse in the American Family. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Glasser, William, MD (2000) Choice Theory, New York: Harper Collins 

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Some Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Goffman, E. (1968). Asylums. London: Penguin Books.

Gotkin, J., & Gotkin, P. (1975). Too Much Anger, Too Many Tears: A Personal Triumph Over Psychiatry. New York: Quadrangle.

Griffiths, E. Paul (1997). What Emotions Really Are. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Grob, G. (1973). Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875. New York: Free Press.

Grob, G. (1990). Marxian Analysis and Mental Illness. History of Psychiatry, 1, 223-32.

Guze S B (1989) Biological psychiatry: is there any other kind? Psychological Medicine, 19, 315-323

 

Hacking, Ian (1995) Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Jay Haley, Leaving Home: The Therapy of Disturbed Young People (New York: McGraw Hill, 1980).

Hansen, H. (1982). Stereotactic psychosurgery. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 66, 7-123.

Held, S. Barbara (1995) Back to Reality: A Critique of Postmodern Theory in Psychotherapy. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company.

Hill, D. (1983). The Politics of Schizophrenia: Psychiatric Oppression in the United States. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Hillman, James (1973) The Dream and the Underworld. New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, and London: Harper and Row, Publishers.

Hopkins, Johns (1980) Psychoanalysis Never Lets Go. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Horgan, John (1999) The Undiscovered Mind. New York: The Free Press.

Horwitz, Allan V. (1999)  Creating Mental Illness.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

 

*Jackson, Grace E. (2005) Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent.  Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse

Jaffe, P., Wolfe, D., & Wilson, S. (1990) Children of Battered Women. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

*Johnstone, L. (2000) Users and Abusers of Psychiatry. London: Routledge. (Rev. Ed)

 

*Karon, B.P. & VandenBos, G.R.  (1981) Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice. New York: Aronson

*Karon, B.P. & Widener, A.J. (1999)  The tragedy of schizophrenia: Its myth of incurability. Ethical Human Sciences and Services, 1, 195-212.

Kesey, K. (1962) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking.

Kevles, D. (1985). In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Klerman GL (1990) The psychiatric patient's right to effective treatment: implications of Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge. American Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 409-18

Kotowicz, Z. (1997). R. D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry. 1997: Routledge.

Kutchins, Herb & Kirk, A. Stuart (1997) Making Us Crazy. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: The Free Press.

Kvale, S. (1992). Psychology and Postmodernism . London: Sage.

 

Laing, R. D. (1965). The Divided Self. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

*Laing, R. D. (1967). The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. London: Penguin Books.

Laing, R. D. (1985) Wisdom, madness and folly. Macmillan: London

Langer, J. Ellen (1989) Mind-Fullness. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books.

Lapon, L. (1986). Mass Murderers in White Coats: Psychiatric Genocide in Nazi Germany and the United States. Springfield, MA: Psychiatric Genocide Research Institute.

Le Doux, Joseph (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinings of Emotional Life. New York: Touchtone, Simon and Schuster.

Leifer, R. (1969). In the Name of Psychiatry. New York: Science House.

Lidz, T., Fleck, S., & Cornelison, A. (1965). Schizophrenia and the Family. New York: International Universities Press.

Lipman, Frank (2003). Total Renewal: 7 Key Steps to Resilience, Vitality, and Long Term Health.  Los Angeles, CA: J.P. Tarcher.

Luhrmann, T. M. (2000). Of 2 Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 

Martin, D. (1976). Battered Wives. San Francisco: Volcano Press.

Jeffrey Masson, Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing  New York: Atheneum, 1988

Masson, J. (1992). Final Analysis. London: Fontana.

McGuiness, D. (1989). Attention Deficit Disorder: The Emperor's New Clothes,Animal "Pharm", and Other Fiction. In S. Fisher & R. Greenberg (Eds.), The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress: Comparisons with Psychotherapy and Placebo . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Medawar, C. (1992). Power and Dependence. London: Social Audit Ltd.

Meyer, J. (1988). The fate of the mentally ill in Germany during the Third Reich. Psychological Medicine, 18, 575-81.

*Miller, A. (1983). For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing and the Roots of Violence. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Miller, P., & Rose, N. (1986). The Power of Psychiatry. Oxford: Polity.

Millett, K. (1970). Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday.

Millett, K. (1990). The Loony-Bin Trip. New York: Simon and Schuster.

John Modrow, How to Become a Schizophrenic: The Case Against Biological Psychiatry  (Apollyon Press, P.O. Box 5114, Everett, WA).

Morgan, R. (Ed.). (1983). The Iatrogenics Handbook: A Critical Look at Research and Practice in the Helping Professions.

Morgan, R. (1991). Electroshock: The Case Against. Toronto: IPI Publishing.

Mullan B (1995) Mad to be normal. Free Association Books: London

Muller-Hill, B. (1988). Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Padel, R. (1981). Madness in fifth-century (B. C.) Athenian tragedy. In P. Heelas & A. Lock (Eds.), Indigenous Psychologies: the Anthropology of the Self . London: Academic Press.

Parker, I., McLoughlin, T., Harper, D., Smith, M. S., & Georgaca, E. (1995). Deconstructing Psychopathology. London: Sage.

* Peele, S. (1985). The Meaning of Addiction: An Unconventional View.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Peterson, D. (1982). A Mad People's History of Madness. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Plotkin, R., & Rigling, K. (1979). Invisible manacles: Drugging the mentally retarded. Stanford Law Review, 31, 637-78.

Pols, Edward (1982). The Acts of Our Being: A Reflection on Agency and Responsibility. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press.

Pols, Edward (1998). Mind Regained. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

Proctor, R. (1988). Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Richman, D., Frank, L., & Mandler, A. (1987). Dr. Caligari's Psychiatric Drugs. Berkeley, CA: Network Against Psychiatric Assault.

Riegel, F. Klaus (1979). Foundations of Dialectical Psychology. New York, San Francisco, and  London: Academic Press, Inc.

Robitscher, J. (1980). The Powers of Psychiatry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

*Romme, M., & Escher, S. (1993). Accepting Voices: A New Approach to Voice-hearing Outside the Illness Model. Mind

*Romme, M., & Escher, S. (2000). Making Sense of Voices-A Guide for Professionals Who Work With Voice-hearers, Mind

Rose, N. (1979). The Psychological Complex. Ideology and Consciousness, 5, 5-71.

Rose, N. (1985). The Psychological Complex. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

*Rosenhan,  D. L. 'On Being Sane in Insane Places'. In Paul Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented Reality   (New York: Norton, 1984).

Rowe, D. (1990). Beyond Fear. London: Fontana.

 

Sarbin, T., & Mancuso, J. (1980). Schizophrenia: Medical Diagnosis or Moral Verdict. New York: Pergamon.

*Scheff, T. (Ed.). (1967). Mental Illness and Social Process. New York: Harper and Row.

Scheff, T. (Ed.). (1975). Labelling Madness. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

*Scheff, T. (1984). Being Mentally Ill. New York: Aldine.

Scheff, Thomas, Being Mentally Ill (Chicago: Aldine, 1966).

Scheflin, A., & Opton, E. (1978). The Mind Manipulators. New York: Paddington.

Schrag, P. (1978). Mind Control. New York: Pantheon.

Schrag, P., & Divoky, D. (1975). The Myth of the Hyperactive Child and Other Means of Child Control. New York: Pantheon.

Scull, A. T. (1975). From madness to mental illness: medical men as moral entrepreneurs. Archives of European Sociology, 16, 218-51.

Scull, A. T. (1977). Decarceration. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Scull, A. T. (1979). Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England. London: Allen Lane.

Scull, A. T. (1989). Social Order/Mental Disorder. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Scull, A. T. (1990). Michel Foucault's history of madness. History of the Human Sciences, 3(1), 57-67.

Scull, A. T. (1993). The Most Solitary of Afflictions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Sedgwick, P. (1982). PsychoPolitics. London: Pluto.

Seidenberg, R., & DeCrow, K. (1983). Women Who Marry Houses: Panic and Protest in Agoraphobia. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Shutts, D. (1982). Lobotomy: Resort to the Knife. New York: Van Norstrand Reinhold.

Siegel, J. D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience.  New York and London: The Guildford Press.

Simmonds, D. (1976). Children's Rights and Family Dysfunction: 'Daddy, Why Do I Have to be the Crazy One?'. In G. Koocher (Ed.), Children's Rights and the Mental Health Professions . New York: Wiley.

Smith, Clover (See Clover)

Soldz, Stephen & McCullough, Leigh (2000). Reconciling Empirical Knowledge and Clinical Experience: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

*Sullivan, H.S. (1953) The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

*Sullivan, H.S. (1962) Schizophrenia as a Human Process, New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

Szasz, T. (1963). Law, Liberty and Psychiatry. New York: Macmillan.

*Szasz, T. (1996).  The Meaning of Mind.  New York: Praeger.

* Szasz, T. (1970). The Manufacture of Madness. New York: Harper and Row.

* Szasz, T. (1974). The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct. (2nd ed.). New York: Harper and Row.

*Szasz, T. (2001).  Pharmacracy.  London: Praeger.

Szasz, T. (1976). Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry. British Journal of Psychiatry, 129.

 

Tantum D (1991) The anti-psychiatry movement. In 150 Years of British Psychiatry, 1841-1991 (eds Berrios G E and Freeman H). Gaskell: London.

*Thomas, Philip, (1997). The Dialectics of Schizophrenia. London/New York: Free Association Books

Turkle, S. (1981). French anti-psychiatry. In D. Ingleby (Ed.), Critical Psychiatry . Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Turner, B. (1995). Medical Power and Social Knowledge. London: Sage.

 

Valenstein, E. (Ed.). (1980). The Psychosurgery Debate: Scientific, Legal and Ethical Perspectives. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

*Valenstein, E. (1986). Great and Desperate Cures. New York: Basic Books.

 

*Watzlawick, Paul, Bavelas, Jane, and Don D. Jackson. (1967). Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes.

*Whitaker, L.C. (1992). Schizophrenic Disorders: Sense and Nonsense in Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment. New York: Plenum Press.

*Whitaker, Robert.  (2002).  Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, And The Enduring Mistreatment of The Mentally Ill.  Cambridge: Perseus Publishing.

Wolfe, D. (1987). Child Abuse: Implications for Child Development and Psychopathology. Newbury Park. CA: Sage.

Wurtzel, E. (1995). Prozac Nation. London: Quartet.

 

Zaejian, Jasenn (1996) Giving Up "Mental Illness" or How To Be "Normal" In A Crazy World, Commack, NY: Kroshaka Books.

Zizek, Slavoj (1999) The Ticklish Subject. London and New York: Verso

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