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Coming off Psychiatric Drugs
The first book in the world about the issue of successfully coming off psychiatric drugs primarily addresses people in treatment who decide to withdraw. It also addresses their relatives and therapists. +++ Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, such as Haloperidol, Prozac, Risperidone or Zyprexa; for them, detailed accounts of how others came off these substances without ending up in the doctor's office, are of fundamental interest. In this manual, 26 former psychiatric patients from Australia, Austria, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA – and for the first time, a relative – write about their experiences wi...
Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs (New and updated edition)
Doctors, including psychiatrists, prescribe antidepressants, neuroleptics ("antipsychotics"), mood stabilizers, tranquilizers and psychostimulants all over the world, and, in most cases, without providing information about the risks of taking them and problems when stopping, for example, adverse effects, tolerance formation, bodily and psychological dependence and withdrawal symptoms. Nor they tell people about ways to avoid or minimize the risks. +++ This volume presents a collaboration of users and survivors of psychiatry (ex-patients), professionals, researchers, lawyers, and academics around the world committed to helping people understand the potential harm (including drug dependence) t...
Manage or Perish?
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from various diseases. This is the main form of their activity and usually the reason for which they selected medicine as their profession. The notion that they should become managers and engage in activi ties such as programming, calculating cost, assessing cost-benefit ratios, and thinking about pricing in accordance with the social utility of their intervention, is both foreign and abhorrent to them. They are sometimes willing to say how much they need in order to have a well-functioning service: usually they prefer to state w...
Essentials of Global Mental Health
Defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes.
Psychopharmaka absetzen (Aktualisierte Neuausgabe)
Millionen Menschen nehmen Psychopharmaka (zum Beispiel Amitriptylin, Citalopram, Diazepam, Haldol, Lithium, Medikinet, Quetiapin, Risperidon, Tavor, Venlafaxin). Für sie sind detaillierte Erfahrungsberichte, wie diese Substanzen evtl. kleinschrittig abgesetzt wurden, ohne gleich wieder im Behandlungszimmer des Arztes oder in der Klinik zu landen, von existenziellem Interesse. +++ Das weltweit erste Buch zum Thema Erfolgreiches Absetzen von Psychopharmaka richtet sich an die Behandelten, die aus eigenem Entschluss die verordneten Psychopharmaka absetzen wollen. Gleichfalls angesprochen sind ihre Angehörigen und Therapeuten. +++ In dem Praxisbuch schreiben Betroffene und erstmals ein Angehö...
The Routledge Handbook of International Development, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental health has always been a low priority worldwide. Yet more than 650 million people are estimated to meet diagnostic criteria for common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, with almost three-quarters of that burden in low- and middle-income countries. Nowhere in the world does mental health enjoy parity with physical health. Notwithstanding astonishing medical advancements in treatments for physical illnesses, mental disorder continues to have a startlingly high mortality rate. However, despite its widespread neglect, there is now an emerging international imperative to improve global mental health and wellbeing. The UN’s current international development agenda finalised...
Dejando los medicamentos psiquiátricos
El primer libro en el mundo, sobre Retirada exitosa de los medicamentos psiquiátricos. Millones de personas consumen psicofármacos como Haloperidol, Prozac, Risperidona o Zyprexa. Para ellos estas historias en detalle, de cómo otros lograron abandonar los psicofármacos sin que eso provocara una crisis y el regreso al consultorio médico, son de interés fundamental. En "Dejando los medicamentos psiquiátricos" dieciséis personas de Alemania, Australia, Colombia, los EE.UU., Hungría, Inglaterra, Irlanda, Nueva Zelanda, los Países Bajos, Suecia y Suiza – y por primera vez, un familiar – escriben acerca de sus experiencias con la abstinencia. Asimismo, diez profesionales trabajando c...
Sundhedsfremme
This book deals with health promotion to change people's options and give them power over their own health. It is aimed at workers in health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation at the municipal level as well as in educational contexts in workplaces.
残障权利研究（第九辑）
本書以殘障權利為主題，就殘障者教育、殘障者就業、精神與智力障礙、殘障與性別及殘障、法治與社會等議題進行深入探索。書中作者們綜合運用社會學、法學、政治學、教育學，乃至醫學、公共衛生學等學科的話語和理論，對殘障權利進行了近乎全景式的掃描，是多學科人權研究方法在殘障權利領域的系統運用。作者們深入“田野”，直面真實世界，關注殘障人權利實現的迫切問題，得出了有意義、有說服力的結論，這必將促進有關殘障權利的實踐、法律與政策的變革。
