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volumes, soft cover, together 944 pages, 89 illustrationsISBN 3-925931-11-2 / 978-3-925931-11-6. Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing 1996. Published in the German language. € 34.80 / CHF 58.50 / instantly deliverable / Order-no. 122 Author | Additional information | Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | More information in the German language | Terms of delivery & payment | Order form | home | back to previous page A book, that reveals the risks of psychiatric drugs as well as the risks of electroshocks ruthless and easy to understand. With advices how to withdraw responsible. Februar 12, 1997 Dear Madam, dear Sir, we want to draw your attention to our just published book "Brave New Psychiatry" ("Schöne neue Psychiatrie"), written in German language. From at once it is available in book-shops or directly at our mail-order-service. The two-volume new
publication addresses primary to the treated persons and their relatives und enables
them a grounded and independent decision: taking psychiatric drugs in spite of
considerable risks for the health—or better not. If already a damage is done,
then the proof should be made easier, that it was caused by the treatment. Workers
in the psychosocial system can use the book as manual and work of reference. A chapter by its own is dedicated to the potential of dependence on these substances as well as to advices how to come down. Sincerely
yours The author is a qualified educationalist and specialist-book-writer
and in the board of different associations, for example PSYCHEX
(Switzerland) and the German Bundesverband
Psychiatrie-Erfahrener (Association
of [ex-] users and survivors of psychiatry). Since January
1997 he is chair of the European
Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. For the
two books he made a thorough investigation of 2500 medical, psychological
and pharmacological books and articles. But no background knowledge
is necessary for the reading of his two books. "Brave New
Psychiatry" replaces his book of success "Der chemische
Knebel" (The
Chemical Gag), which was published 1986 and particularly re-published
1990 and 1993. More
about Peter Lehmann Tranquilizers (Lorazepam, Valium etc.), lithium, antidepressants (Faverin, Prozac etc.), neuroleptics (Compazine, Haldol etc.), carbamazepine (Tegretol etc.) and psychostimulants (Ritalin, Tradon etc.) are used more and more in the psychiatric and medical system, especially in the general medicine and the paediatrics. Since 1985 the trend steadily goes away from tranquilizers and towards antidepressants and neuroleptics. In Germany on average 70% of all psychiatric drugs are administered to women, with increasing age in rising tendency. Every seventh psycho-pill is swallowed by children less than twelve years old. 15% of all children and adolescents and 25% of all adults are considered as mentally disturbed, so they are possible consumers. Nothing points out that the situation outside of Germany is fundamentally different. Normally the treated persons do not receive information about the probable, the possible and the not-excludable risks. They do not know, that some substances had to be withdrawn from the drug-market in the one countries, but are sold without restriction in the other countries, for example penfluridol (brand names: Cyperon, Flupidol, Longoperidol, Longoran, Micefal, Semap) as a possible carcinogen, remoxipride (Roxiam) because of blood damage, and triazolam (brand names: Apo-Triazo, Dumozolam, Halcion, Novidorm, Novodorm, Novo-Triolam, Nuctane, Nu-triazo, Rilamir, Somniton, Songar, Triasan, Triazoral) in connection with amnesia and black-outs. If people want to have full information on the risks, which are connected with the administration of psychiatric drugs and electroshocks, they have to give serious thoughts to their mechanisms and effects, especially when doctors' interests in full information leave much to be desired. »Brave New Psychiatry« consists of two volumes, which are enclosed particularly. Peter Lehmann: "Brave New Psychiatry", Vol. 1: "Wie Chemie und Strom auf Geist und Psyche wirken" (= "How chemistry and electricity work on mind and psyche") 400 pages, 35 illustrations, 15 x 21 cm, ISBN 3-925931-09-0 / 978-3-925931-09-3. Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing 1996. € 17.90 / CHF 31.40 / Order-No. 120 In the centre of attention in this volume are the many and diverse risks and damages in the psychic and mental system. Main topics are: drug-caused emotional impoverishment, changing of the personality, depression, desperation, suicide, confusion, delirium and psychotic states; disturbances of the senses, memory, concentration, sleep and dreams; self-trials of doctors; animal experiments. In a special chapter Leonard Roy Frank, the US-American expert on damages of electroshocks, shows the negative effects (especially loss of memory) of this disputed method. With
an extensive register and 1102 sources from all over the world. 544 pages, 54 illustrations, 15 x 21 cm, ISBN 3-925931-10-4 / 978-3-925931-10-9. Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing 1996. € 19.95 / CHF 34.80 / Order-No. 121 In the centre of attention here are the psychiatric drugs' short-term, medium-term and long-term risks and damages, which find expression in the muscle and autonomic system, for example as—partly life-dangerous—muscle-cramps, movement-disorders, genetic damages, harms to the liver, heart and sexual-organs. A chapter by its own is dedicated to the potential of dependence on theses substances. Its special status is caused by the fact, that their administrators—with the exception of tranquilizers—deny their potential of dependence. They conceal possible withdrawal-symptoms, rebound-phenomenons, supersensibility-reactions of the receptors as well as possible irreversible drug damages and change the definitions into symptoms-alteration: for example chronic anxiety after long-term administration of antidepressants or tranquilizers, states of confusion after withdrawal from lithium and chronic psychosis after administration of neuroleptics. Prudent advices, how the risk of relapse can be reduced and how withdrawal-effects can be mitigated, balance this volume. With an extensive register, too, and 1677 sources from all over the world. |
