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Free workbooks created by Laura Delano (author of 'Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance'). Designed for anyone facing a crossroads- whether you are currently taking psychiatric medications, you are a prescriber of psychiatric medications, or you’re a family member of someone on psych medications.
Author: James Greenblatt, M.D
James Greenblatt is the Chief Medical Officer of Psychiatry Redefined, a distinguished faculty of over 25 experts across psychiatry, nutrition, neurology, and integrative medicine. A pioneer in Functional and Integrative Psychiatry. Dr. Greenblatt’s 30-year legacy in clinical practice and research shapes the organisation's educational programs, and inspires a global community of clinicians seeking better, more holistic solutions for their patients. His free e-book 'Functional & Integrative Psychiatry for Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome' explores holistic, integrative approaches to dealing with the modern psychiatric withdrawal crisis.
Clinical Tapering Guides
Clinical Tapering Guides
The Maudsley Deprescribing Gudielines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs
Authors: Mark Horowitz, M.D., Ph.D & David Taylor, Ph.D
The first major clinical guideline to incoporate hyperbolic tapering principles into deprescribing protocols. Based on receptor occupancy pharmacology, it provides evidence-based schedules for gradually reducing psychiatric medications, directly challenging the rapid tapers still standard in most clinical settings. Essential for patients and clinicians seeking safe discontinuation strategies.
The Ashton Manual: Benzodiazepines, How They Work and How to Withdraw
Author: Prof. Heather Ashton
The Ashton Manual presents insights into the impacts of benzodiazepines on both the mind and body, elucidating the mechanisms through which these effects manifest. It offers comprehensive guidance on safely discontinuing usage following extended periods, furnishing tailored tapering plans for various benzodiazepines. The text delves into withdrawal symptoms, both immediate and prolonged, elucidating their underlying causes and strategies for managing them.
Informative
Informative
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why To Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
Authors: Peter R. Breggin, M.D, and David Cohen, Ph. D
When first published in 1999, Your Drug May Be Your Problem was ahead of its time. The only book to provide an uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of psychiatric medication, it was also the first and only book to explain how to safely stop taking them. In the time elapsed, there have been numerous studies suggesting or proving the dangers of some psychiatric medications and even the FDA now acknowledges the problems more studies are under way to determine their long-term and withdrawal effects. In the meantime, this book continues to be ever relevant and helpful. Fully updated to include study results and new medications that have come to market, Your Drug May Be Your Problem will help countless readers exert control over their own psychiatric treatment.
Crossing Zero: The Art and Science of Coming Off - and Staying Off - Psychiatric Drugs
Author: Anders Sørensen
Crossing Zero offers both practical guidance and psychological insights for anyone considering discontinuation. The book deliberately places tapering instructions after extensive context about our relationship with emotions and challenging dominant narratives around mental health.
Written by Danish Clinical Psychologist Anders Sørensen, who also holds a PhD in psychiatry, Crossing Zero combines the most up-to-date science with over a decade of clinical experience helping people safely withdraw from psychiatric drugs, build a meaningful life beyond medication, and reclaim agency over their lives.
Author: Baylissa Frederick
This is an essential guide for counsellors, doctors, other healthcare professionals, family members and anyone affected by dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepines and antidepressants. Drawn from the author’s personal experience with discontinuing a benzodiazepine prescribed for her dystonia (a neurological condition causing involuntary movements), her many years of supporting others in withdrawal, and her counselling training and expertise, it focuses on healing and empowerment and includes coping tips, success stories, description of symptoms and everything else one needs to know in order to self-care and succesfully overcome this experience.
Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: The Complete Guide to Healing
Author: Dr. Jennifer Austin Leigh
Drawing from her experience of benzo withdrawal and years of supporting others through their healing, Dr. Leigh combines cutting-edge science with holistic strategies to empower you to reclaim your health.
With empathy, wisdom, and actionable advice, this book is your trusted companion on the path to recovery—the world’s first complete guide to healing from benzodiazepines. Whether you’re starting your taper, already off the medication, supporting someone you love, or a medical professional, you’ll find the information you need to understand benzodiazepine withdrawal and support the healing process.
Author: Christopher M. Palmer, M.D.
A Harvard psychiatrist presents the theory that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain. Palmer synthesis decades of dysfunction to psychiatric conditions and makes the case for metabolic interventions, including the ketogenic diet, as treatments for mental illness. Directly relevant to understanding why dietary approaches may help with medication-induced neurological injury.
Author: Dr. Georgia Ede M.D.
Are you struggling with attention problems, mood swings, food obsession, or depression? In Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind , Dr. Georgia Ede reveals that the most powerful way to change brain chemistry is with food, because that’s where brain chemicals come from in the first place. Drawing on a wide range of scientific disciplines including biochemistry, neuroscience, and botany, Dr. Ede will ignite your curiosity about the fascinating world of food and its role in nourishing, protecting, and energizing your brain.
Investigative
Investigative
Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Author: Joanna Moncrieff
In Chemically Imbalanced, renowned psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the history of the serotonin theory of depression, from its origins in the 1960s to its widespread acceptance in the 1990s. With clarity and compelling evidence, Moncrieff exposes how scientific understanding has been swayed by social and economic forces, leading to misconceptions that have shaped treatment decisions for millions.
Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime
Author: Peter Breggin
Dr. Breggin examines the capacity of psychiatric medications to cause violent and impulsive beahavior, withdrawal syndromes, and other serious adverse effects. Includes case studies and analaysis of medication-induced injuries.
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare
Author: Peter Gotzsche, M.D
A critical examination of pharmaceutical industry practices, conflicts of interest in drug approval and marketing, and the gap between industry-sponsored research and independent evidence. Provides context for understanding why medication harms are underrecognised.
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
Author: David Healy, M.D.
Healy, a psychopharmacologist and one of the earliest researchers to document SSRI-induced suicidality, exposes how clinical trial data was manipulated to conceal serious adverse effects of antidepressants. A foundational text for understanding how the pharamaceutical industry shaped the narrative around SSRI safety.
Shipwrecked of the Singular: Healthcare's Castaways
Author: David Healy, M.D.
Healy's most recent work examines how modern healthcare systems abandon patients who fall outside standard treatement narratives, particularly those harmed by medications. He documents how individuals with drug-induced injuries become 'castaways' in a system that cannot acknowledge ther condition, making this perhaps the most directly relevant book for anyone navigating medication-induced harm.
Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Author: Beverley Thomson
A comprehensive breakdown of the growing crisis of antidepressant harm and dependence, how we got here, what's happening to patients worldwide, and where we go from here. Covers the medicalisation of mental health, the power of the informed patient, safe antidepressant management and withdrawal, and firsthand patient experiences.
Memoirs
Memoirs
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Author: Brooke Siem
A memoir of antidepressant withdrawal from one of the first generations of minors prescribed antidepressants. After fifteen years and 32,000 pills, intitially prescribed in the wake of her father's sudden death, Siem chronicles the excruciating year of withdrawal and identity reconstruction that followed her decision to come off medication. Winner of the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for Memoir.
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
Author: Laura Delano
Equal parts memoir, history, and manifesto from the founder of the Inner Compass Initiative. Delano chronicles her thirteen-year journey through psychiatric diagnoses, institutionalization, and a cascade of nineteen medications before tapering off and reclaiming her identity beyond diagnostic labels. A powerful exploration of what it means to resist a system that pathologizes normal human experience.
Polydrugged Into Insanity: A True Story of Psychiatric Medication
Author: Craig Dawtrey
Poly-drugged Into Insanity is the true story of a family man whose apparently perfect life is unexpectedly upturned. He experiences a frightening journey from emotional riches-to-rags and back again, as he fights a battle against prescribed medication and the medical psychiatric fraternity, whilst attempting to save what is left of his broken life. The apparent paradoxical effect of psychiatric medication on his mind and body is explored as he searches for a way out of the haze caused by a situation he never expected or wanted for.
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