Books like Medication Madness by Peter Roger Breggin

Robert Whitaker examines the dramatic rise of disability among people with mental illness, questioning whether psychiatric drugs worsen long‑term outcomes and exploring alternative treatments that show promise for lasting recovery.

Robert Whitaker’s investigative history of mental‑health treatment traces how practices from the 18th century to today have often worsened, rather than improved, the lives of severe mental‑illness patients.

Nothing in the field of mental health will do more good and reduce more harm than encouraging withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. The time is past when the focus in mental health was on what drugs to take for what disorders. Now we need to focus on how to stop taking psychiatric drugs and to replace them with more person-centered, empathic approaches. The goal is no longer drug maintenance and stagnation; the goal is recovery and achieving well-being. My new book, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Families, responds to a citizen rebellion that demands, "Help us get off these drugs!" It also encourages a professional revolution among concerned therapists who want to reject the idea of enforcing "patient compliance." It's time for therapists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, family therapists, and counselors to stop pushing their clients and patients to take psychiatric drugs that cause brain damage, harm the body, and shorten their patients' lives. In Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, therapists will learn about psychiatric drugs to actively participate with patients and families in the medication decision-making process. - Author.

In Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior: The Pharmacology of Abuse and Dependence, you will venture through the miracle of the brain and see what happens when drugs affect its functions. Filled with an array of useful definitions and amazing historic discoveries about the nervous system. It will bring you up to speed on the brain/behavior relationship, basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the mechanistic actions of mood-altering drugs, including alcohol, marijuana, anxiolytics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, cocaine, and opiates.