Breggin feels that coming out of a depression involves understanding what has gone into your life that has led up to your being depressed and what ideas you have about life that aren't helping you to live better, as well as learning new principles that are more positive and creative. What I try to provide," he says, and what I think every good therapist tries to provide, is a warm, supportive, encouraging relationship to help a person rebuild hope and confidence in themselves, to rebuild an idea about how to live life."
Breggin believes that a holistic approach to treating depression allows a patient the opportunity to look at his or her life, and to choose to live in a new and far better way. Depression, in that light, is viewed as a signal that something is wrong, something is not understood, or some values are not being fulfilled. While drugs can jerk people out of their depression, they fail to help them deal with life. Unfortunately, Breggin says, drugs are out there and millions are taking them. "Now, they are a basic part of American life and it is really a matter of following the dollars back to the drug companies and to organized psychiatry."14
To follow: Psychiatry in Education - Part 2
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References
1. Joe Sharkey, Bedlam, St. Martin'a Press, New York, 1994, pp. 273-4.
2. NME to Settle U.S. Fraud Charges, New York Daily News, Apr. 16, 1994.
3. Thomas Mulligan, Los Angeles Times, Apr. 10, 1994.
4. Gary Null interview with Randy Lakel, Feb. 17, 1995.
5. C. Marbin and J. Testerman, The Patient Pipeline, St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 1993.
6 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights can be reached at 1-800-869-2247. Help is free.
7. Gary Null interview with Bruce Wiseman, Feb. 20, 1995.
8. Gary Null interview with Bruce Wiseman, Nov. 8, 1994.
9. Gary Null interview with Nickie Saizon, Feb. 20, 1995.
10. M. Smith and C. Rugeley, Hospital Abuses Lead Lawmakers to Rethink Controls, Houston Chronicle Oct. 27, 1991.
11. D.G. Cameron, ECT: Sham Statistics, The Myth of Convulsive Therapy, and the Case for Consumer Misinformation, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 15: 1 & 2, Winter/Spring 1994, p. 177.
12. Write to World Association of Electroshock Survivors, P.O. Box 16164, Austin TX 78761 to get involved in banning ECT worldwide and to receive The Disconnect News.
13. GaryNull interview with Diane Loper, Feb. 21,1995.
14. Gary Null interview with Dr. Peter Breggin, Nov. 9, 1994.
15. Gary Null interview with Amy Rankm, Feb. 20,1995.
16. Gary Null interview with Jan Eastgate, Feb. 21 1995.
17. Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association, Sexual Misconduct in the Practice of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov. 20,1991, 266:19, pp. 2742-4.
18. Sydney Smith, The Seduction of the Female Patient, in Sexual Exploitation in Professional Relationships (G.O. Gabbard, ed.), American Psychiatric Press Washington, DC ,1989.
19. Barbara Noel with Kathryn Wattemon, You Must Be Dreaming, Poseidon Press, New York 1992.
20. Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Psychiatric Rape (booklet), Los Angeles, 1995, p. 6.
21. Gary Null interview with Joanne Toglia, Feb. 21, 1995.
22. Gary Null interview with Steve Silver, Feb. 17, 1995.
23. Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Pychiatry's Betrayal (booklet), Los Angeles, 1995, p. 5.
24. 20/20, CBS, Jan. 26,1996.
25. Joe Sharkey, op. cit., pp. 239-40.
26. Peter Kerr, Mental Hospital Chains Accused of Much Cheating on Insurance, The New York Times, Nov. 24, 1991.
27. Psych Chain's Handbook Sought Admission Quotas, San Antonio Express News, Dec. 5, 1991.
28. Peter R. Breggin and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Today's Most Controversial Drug, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994, p. 40.
29. Ibid., p.121.
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