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"I began seeing psychiatrists at the age of 16, and began taking various medications at age 18.1 was hospitalized at the age of 20. At the time, the inference was that I should be very ashamed of myself. I was on lithium and antidepressants for 18 years and I developed chronic fatigue as a result of the side effects of all the medications. The whole time I was on drugs, I was suicidal every other month. When 1 first got off my drugs, I had to spend a lot of time taking care of myself." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This led psychiatrists in France, and later the U.S., to try this drug on patients hospitalized for depression. This was the birth of the tricyclic medications. Tricyclics, which include doxepin (Sinequan), amoxapine (Asendin), and amitriptyline (Elavil), increase norepinephrine and serotonin levels in the synapses (the spaces between the nerve cells in the brain). The main problem with the tricyclics is their anticholinergic side effects: dry mouth, constipation, memory problems, confusion, blurred vision, sexual dysfunction, and decreased urination." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Mood-stabilizing agents, which include valproic acid (Valproate), carbamazepine (Tegretol), topiramate (Topomax), lamotrigine (Lamictal), phenytoin (Dilantin), and neurontin (Gabapentin), are commonly used in clinical practice, often in combination with SSRI medications, since psychiatrists commonly add psychotropic medications from different classes of drugs if patients don't respond to treatment. Valproate can cause potentially fatal liver failure, although it very rarely does so." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"A few years ago, I was teaching a class for psychologists and psychiatrists. One of the female psychologists in attendance walked in on the first day of the class and sat next to one of the male psychologists. I noticed that, while their bodies were straight in their chairs, their energy fields leaned into one another. It was obvious to me that they had a personal relationship. The colors they had in common ran together like a river, even if the colors came from different parts of their bodies. This told me they knew one another extremely well and had a strong level of intuitive communication." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"New York harbor for a major reception for psychiatrists, and we wanted to do something to counter that." Mr. Jones said the companies were providing far more to physicians than mere entertainment. Most of the leading physicians in the various medical specialties, he said, were now paid consultants to one or more pharmaceutical companies. "The reach goes very, very far," the former executive said. "These corporations are not paying these physicians or anybody else out of disinterested philanthropy. They expect something." Mr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Functional somatic syndromes" is the appellation of leading psychiatrists in the United States in this field (Barsky and Borus 1999), which is meant to capture the heightened awareness and amplification of physical symptoms. "Hypochondriasis" is set off as a refractory subset with an unshakable conviction that they harbor a serious disease (Barsky 2001). There are rheumatologists who insist that the widespread pain is not so widespread but relates to tender points, and they apply the fibromyalgia label. However, tender points require the finger of faith (Croft 2000)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"At the same time, psychiatrists have changed the definition of depression and other mental illnesses that have long been recognized so that they include larger groups of people. When a scientist at the pharmaceutical company Ciba-Geigy came up with the first antidepressant, a drug called Tofranil, in the 1950s, the company had little interest in marketing it because so few people were thought to suffer from depression. As few as one in ten thousand people was then thought to be depressed." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "He described how Abbott had promoted its antianxiety drug Tranx-ene to psychiatrists attending a major medical conference in Manhattan by paying to entertain them at a special performance at the opera. The singers performed songs that included stories of psychosis and neurosis. The program also promoted Tranxene. Senator Kennedy asked Mr. Jones where Abbott got the idea for a night at the opera. "It was put together rather late," Mr. Jones explained, "because as I understand it, we learned that another company—I think it was Pfizer?" - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"As a student she would seek out dusty psychiatric writings of the nineteenth century, before the advent of modern psychopharmacology, when psychiatrists lived in sanatoriums, writing down the rantings of their patients in an attempt to gain further understanding of their conditions. Somewhere in the raw data, Targ believed, separated out from the dogma of the times, lay the truth. Elisabeth agreed to collaborate with Sicher, even though privately she doubted it was ever going to work. She would put distant healing to the purest test." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In fact, lithium is a perfect example of a naturally occurring substance being used by traditional psychiatrists to treat biochemical diseases. Sometimes you use lithium in schizophrenic patients who also have secondary depressions of their moods. You want to be cautious, however. "If a patient is manic and having psychotic symptoms, I tend to use a formulation similar to that given to psychotic patients. Lithium is certainly added in large part. If the patient's mood is low and he or she is depressed, lithium is sometimes of value, but not always." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Child psychologists and psychiatrists can also play a role in making a diagnosis. Most children with ADD/ADHD create disturbances in the classroom. They act out, physically or verbally; are uncooperative; or impulsively strike or kick a classmate. At the beginning of the school year, especially for students starting school for the first time, the new faces and new environment are enough to keep their attention. For a month or What Causes ADD/ADHD? There are few definitive answers as to what causes ADD/ADHD." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Popper commented, "Psychiatrists do not normally think of vitamins or minerals as modifiers of the effects of psychiatric medications, but the early anecdotal evidence with this nutrient supplement suggests that there may be strong micronutrient-medication interactions. This mineral-vitamin supplement seems to generally potentiate the clinical properties of psychiatric drugs." Other nutritional remedies that have been shown to be beneficial in treating mood disorders include omega-3 fatty acids, phenylalanine, triiodothyronine, 1-cysteine, folic acid, inositol, vitamin B12, and vitamin C." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Should such conditions be treated by psychiatrists, and if so, with what modality? And finally: How effective are standard treatments? PREVALENCE Tony Soprano was not alone. Many people are afflicted with what are defined as serious emotional or mental problems.2 According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), about one in five adults— some 45 million people—suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Backster, who knew he would be ridiculed if he presented findings like these to the scientific community, enlisted an impressive array of chemists, biologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and physicists to help him design an airtight experiment. In his early experiments, Backster had relied upon human thought and emotion as the trigger for reactions in the plants. The scientists discouraged him from using intention as the stimulus of the experiment, because it did not lend itself to rigorous scientific design. How could you set up a control for a human thought—an intention to harm, say?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"He and other psychiatrists of the mid-twentieth century endorsed a bio-psychosocial model of care that normalized brain aging as part of the human condition rather than mythologizing it as a terrorizing disease. They believed not that the pathological substrate of aging was unimportant, but that each individual case required "individual scrutiny, and instead of focusing attention solely on the impersonal tissue process or on more personal influences, the main object should be to estimate the relative importance of these [bio-psychosocial] forces as factors in the origin" of dementia." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "But as psychiatrists such as David Rothschild noted over a half-century ago, if suffering cannot be eliminated, it can be ameliorated. Human words and concepts embedded in our personal relationships can enhance suffering or reduce it. I only claim that how we use the AD label can often compound human suffering and distort our priorities, and that changing the way we think about and speak about brain aging can enrich our experience of it. I have no intention of having committed people in Alzheimer's organizations lose their jobs." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Fibromyalgia (FMS) is likely an affective disorder, belonging to a family of diseases referred to by Harvard psychiatrists as affective spectrum disorder (ASD). This family of disorders also includes depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, chronic fatigue, and substance abuse syndromes. In many of these patients, some psychological trauma early in life (typically before age thirty) is the root cause of ASD. ASD is associated with a common set of symptoms and several common biochemical features such as mood disturbance, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and musculoskeletal pain." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Even today, after the FDA has acknowledged that the newer antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac cause suici-dality, there are only very few psychiatrists with the combination of expertise and determination required to take a stand in court against powerful drug-company interests. If I hadn't intervened in Harry Henderson's case, he might have spent much of the rest of his life in jail. Instead, my analysis of his case led the prosecution and the judge, as well as the injured policeman, to rethink their attitudes regarding their originally tough stance toward Harry." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "It began four years earlier when his eight-year-old son was hospitalized for a painful physical disorder and came under treatment with one of the best-known psychiatrists in Washington, D.C., a professor at a local medical center. Shortly thereafter, his wife came under the same doctor's care. Both mother and son were soon much too heavily medicated. As their mental conditions deteriorated, stress grew in the family, and soon Patrick sought help from the same doctor. As three of the four family members deteriorated from drug toxicity, the other son ran emotionally aground." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Today, bipolar disorder is so commonplace that most psychiatrists are treating many patients with that diagnosis in their practice at any one time. What has changed? Partly, doctors are making the diagnosis much more loosely. I am seeing children diagnosed with bipolar disorder because they have temper tantrums or seem excessively irritable, when in reality their parents have not learned how to discipline them properly." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, because of their total reliance on drugs and electroshock, modern psychiatrists are ill equipped to build trusting relationships with disturbed people. Having been actively discouraged from trying drug-free psychotherapy with disturbed patients, they have no inkling that acute psychotic breaks often quickly respond to skilled human intervention. Instead of building rapport with their patients, they reflexively resort to pressuring or forcing them into hospitals against their will, further humiliating and alienating them." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Altered states can also be induced. psychiatrists, hypnotists, gurus, and spiritual leaders, the same as shamans and medicine men, use sensory reprocessing, hypnosis, breathing exercises, dancing, drumming, and in some cases psychedelic substances to induce them. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof has induced altered states in thousands of patients, and the experiences reported by them are astounding. Second, for ITC to occur, the brain/mind of the receiver may have to have a particular kind of sensitivity." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"I would guess that half of all the homeless people in North America probably are schizophrenic patients who should have been treated in a hospital and kept there. Most psychiatrists want to put their patients on a tranquilizer on Wednesday, they want to see him better on Thursday, and they want to discharge him on Friday. You simply cannot get a chronic schizophrenic patient well that fast. It takes a lot of time." Dr. Joseph Debe underlines the time needed for good care: "There are no shortcuts to health, none." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"And more than half of the psychiatrists involved in developing the 1994 edition of the DSM had financial ties to drug companies.88 One can argue that financial self-interest is influencing medicine to its core, in the very defining of how to practice medicine. Almost two-thirds of the doctors who frame the formal guidelines of clinical best practice have received funds to conduct research, and more than a third have worked for pharmaceutical companies as employees or as consultants." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"What happened to the right of parents to protect their children from the abusive behavior of drug companies and psychiatrists who irresponsibly over-prescribe these drugs, even though they're increasingly aware of the toxic, dangerous side effects? (You can find solutions for ADHD at no charge by flipping to chapter 5 of this book.) This law has been needed for quite some time. And who was against this law? Of course, it was the psychiatrists." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "That's what the psychiatrists have done—when psychiatrists were given the right to prescribe drugs, they were given power, and they don't want to let go of that power. So they fought bitterly against this bill and they aren't happy with its passage. Big Pharma corruption and fraud "Drug companies manipulate, steal, murder, obfuscate, lie, or commit genocide outright when preparing their so-called scientific research." -Michael Bending, Alliance For Health Freedom Australia Corruption and fraud are mainstays of the pharmaceutical business." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The importance of this exchange is that it's a case of cardiologists ("real" doctors) taking psychiatrists to task about how to treat the whole patient. If we go all the way back to Hippocrates, the wisdom of the day was that emotions come from the heart and that that's where treatment should start for maladies of mood. Modern medicine has separated mind and body, but it turns out that, in a very concrete way, Hippocrates had it right from the start. Just in the past ten years scientists have begun to understand how a molecule that originates in the heart plays on our emotions." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "In this age of deconstructing the brain and unlocking the secrets of the life and death of cells, it's difficult for psychiatrists to consider such a holistic strategy as exercise a treatment. Any doctor will tell you that the worst patients are other doctors. Imagine the difficulty, then, in convincing a patient of mine with a medical degree to exercise for her depression. Grace, who has a history of mild bouts of depression, also happens to be a psychiatrist with a sophisticated knowledge of medicine. Even so, we haven't been able to find an antidepressant without side effects." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "In another study, psychiatrists from London's Kings College purposely depleted tryptophan in a group of women during their premenstrual phase and found that it led to more aggressive behavior when provoked. These were healthy women with no PMS symptoms or mood issues at the time. Each woman was told that if she reacted to a computer cue faster than a competitor in another room, she could adjust the volume of an annoying sound that would penalize the other woman. If she lost, however, she would get buzzed. In fact, there was no opponent." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "You've probably heard of serotonin, and maybe you know that a lack of it is associated with depression, but even many psychiatrists I meet don't know the rest. They don't know that toxic levels of stress erode the connections between the billions of nerve cells in the brain or that chronic depression shrinks certain areas of the brain. And they don't know that, conversely, exercise unleashes a cascade of neurochemicals and growth factors that can reverse this process, physically bolstering the brain's infrastructure." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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