Unsafe at Any Dose: Exposing Psychiatric Dogmas, So Minds Can Heal, Psychiatric Drugs Do More Harm Than Good

241 Pages·2006·1.12 MB·English

by  Bob Johnson

unsafe
at
any
dose

Sales of this book help support the work of
The James Nayler Foundation – www.TruthTrustConsent.com
unsafe
at
any
dose

exposing psychiatric dogmas –
so minds can heal.

Dr Bob Johnson

Consultant Psychiatrist GMC speciality register for psychiatry
formerly Head of Therapy, Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, Liverpool

Consultant Psychiatrist, Special Unit, C-Wing, Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight.

MRCPsych (Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists),
MRCGP (Member of Royal College of General Practitioners).
Diploma in Neurology & Psychiatry (Psychiatric Inst NY),
MA (Psychol), PhD(med computing), MBCS, DPM, MRCS.
Published in 2006 by Trust Consent Publishing, P O Box 49, Ventnor, Isle of
Wight, PO38 9AA UK. www.TrustConsent.com.

All rights reserved: no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the
publisher.

© 2006 Dr Bob Johnson
Dr Bob Johnson is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance
with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A CIP record of this book is available on request from the
British Library. ISBN 0-9551985-1-8
ISBN-13 is 978-0-9551985-1-9

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

If you have comments please send them either via the publisher or via
www.TruthTrustConsent.com. Sadly, time and age will limit my replies.

Please note – psychiatric drugs are increasingly powerful, they wreak great
changes on the chemistry of our brains – so do not stop or change their dosage
abruptly, nor attempt to do so without adequate support. This is a HEALTH
WARNING.

Sales of this book help support the work of The James Nayler Foundation – www.TruthTrustConsent.com
printed by Biddles Ltd, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4LS
foreword

‘Psychiatric drugs do more harm than good’ – not a comfortable statement to
read. Your first reaction is likely to be shock, your second, disbelief. After all,
doctors have a long and rigorous training – if something was wrong, surely they
would be the first to point it out. Sadly, too many doctors share your disbelief.
They keep splashing out psychiatric drugs, as if their futures depended on it. For
the last 50 years doctors, with few honourable exceptions, have steadfastly
ignored the solid, irrefutable evidence that psychiatric drugs prolong disease.

Robert Whitaker’s book ‘Mad In America’ gives chapter and verse on the full
range of damning scientific evidence. Whitaker himself hoped that by presenting
the scientific data, in a calm straightforward manner, matters would improve.
Sadly his venture failed. This book is therefore a further attempt along the same
lines – in effect it says, “Wake up! There’s more to psychiatry and to life, than
psychiatric teaching currently allows.”

Unless this teaching is changed, we are all destined to be treated as mindless
unfeeling robots, gummed up by psychiatric drugs. Indeed closer scrutiny shows
that today’s psychiatric foundations are built on sand. My earlier book
‘Emotional Health’ discusses why – here I describe what it is like from the
psychiatrist’s point of view, and show how a reawakened psychiatry could heal
more. We are a sociable species – emotional distress of all varieties can
generally be cured. After reading it, you might agree that public pressure is
needed to rescue us.

This is not an anti-psychiatry book. I have been a member of the Royal College
of Psychiatrists since 1973. I have studied psychiatry intensively since 1963, and
have been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 1991. I love it. Since emotions inflict
such terrible agonies, it is imperative that we control them, not them us. This is
why I now put much effort into establishing Emotion Support Centres, where
‘recoverers help others recover’.