The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment by Joanna Moncrieff
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, ECT and Biochemical Theories of the ‘New Psychiatry’ by Peter Breggin MD
Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin MD, David Cohen MD
Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot Valenstein PhD
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Gary Greenberg
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force by Jeffrey M. Schwartz MD, Sharon Begley
Mental health politics on the internet
Harvard researchers fail to reveal full drug pay
Gardinier Harris, Benedict Carey NY Times online, June 2008
Dr Robert Spitzer criticizes the secretive collaboration of the DSM V
Benedict Carey, NY Times online, December 2008
Backlash on bipolar diagnosis of children: Joe Biederman PhD “(bipolar) can be present the moment a child opens it’s eyes”
by Scott Allen, Boston Globe online, June 2007
Bipolar labels for children stir concern
Carey Goldburg, Boston Globe online, February 2007
Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy Erick H. Turner, M.D., Annette M. Matthews, M.D., Eftihia Linardatos, B.S., Robert A. Tell, L.C.S.W., and Robert Rosenthal, Ph.D. New England Journal of Medicine online, January 2007
Outrage! Preschoolers used as guinea pigs for psychotropic drug testing
Mike Adams, Natural News online May 2006
The neuroscience of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Abnormalities in prefrontal cortex found in bipolar brains
Schizophrenia linked to defective prefrontal cortex
Prefrontal cortex malfunction to blame for bipolar mania—mood swings.
MRI scans of prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia
MRI scans of prefrontal lobe and manic depression
Schizophrenia caused by faulty prefrontal lobe
Summary of findings on bipolar brains and the prefrontal cortex
Bipolar and neuroscience for kids
Bipolar children have poorly developed prefrontal lobes. (Jane says: Don’t most kids?)
Meditation and brain science articles on the internet
Buddhist meditation really does make you happier. BBC online, May 2003
Imaging technology makes it possible to study brains of meditating monks Curt Newton, MIT technology review online February 2004
Meditating monks give clues on how to override the brain’s basic responses BBC online June 2005
Meditation helps you preform better and alters the structure of your brain Alison Motluk, New Scientist online, November 2005
Meditation can change the workings of the brain
Mark Kaufmen, Washington Post online, January 2005
Meditation promotes neuroplasticity in the prefrontal cortex are the findings of Dr Sarah Lazar, Harvard Medical School, PhysOrg online, January 2006
Zen does help clear the mind
Charles Choi, LiveScience online, September 2008
Mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder:a feasibility trial Weber B, Jermann F, Gex-Fabry M, Nallet A, Bondolfi G, Aubry JM, PubMed online, June 2010
Meditation
TAO of Letting Go: Meditation for Modern Living by Bruce Frantzis
Relaxing Into Your Being: The Water Method of Taoist Meditation by Bruce Frantzis
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