I don't know...I had to read this one for school. I agreed with certain aspects of the author's argument that psychotropic meds cause more issues than they are worth, but I also think that he imposed his own value system (long and traditionally healthy life=best lifestyle possible) upon people w/...
For many reasons, this was an important book to wade through. To say you like the book is really not the response that is relavent. Sobering, and depressing in it's case studies, it presents the history of psychiatric drugs and how their chemical alteration of mental function creates a state of d...
I had recently graduated from college, and I lived for a time in a remote village called Las Manchas on Ecuador’s coast. My girlfriend and I built a bamboo hut on stilts on the outskirts of the village, next to a river emptying into the Pacific, and hoped that we could stay there forever.We could...
—ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)1 McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest mental hospitals in the United States, as it was founded in 1817, when a type of care known as moral therapy was being popularized by Quakers. Their belief was that a retreat for the mentally ill should be bu...