Books

The Evidence However Is Clear by Bob Fiddaman (2010)

The Evidence However Is Clear' is the first book to be written by a patient regarding his experience of Seroxat, a popular antidepressant manufactured by the largest pharmaceutical company in the UK - GlaxoSmithKline.
More details can be found at Chipmunka publishing.
Bob is also the author of the Seroxat Sufferers blog: http://fiddaman.blogspot.com

Dying for a Cure by Rebekah Beddoe (2009)

Beyond Prozac by Dr Terry Lynch (2004)

As a practising GP, Dr Terry Lynch was plagued by increasing doubts about his effectiveness in dealing with patients experiencing emotional distress. He no longer trusted the drugs handed out as routine treatment for so-called ‘mental' illnesses. Changes in his working practice and a training in psychotherapy culminated in the writing of his controversial and deeply felt book.

Every year one million people take their own lives worldwide, and thirty million attempt suicide. Terry Lynch believes that ‘suicide is a final act of avoidance, which in the context of the person's life always makes sense'.

Drawing on his wide experience as a GP and counsellor and using real case histories, the book demonstrates the common sense, but sadly controversial, idea that personal contact is a better healer than drugs.

The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and "Addiction" by Dr Joseph Glenmullen (2005)

More than twenty million Americans -- including over one million teens and children -- take one of today's popular antidepressants, such as Paxil (Seroxat), Zoloft, or Effexor. Dr. Glenmullen, a graduate of Harvard Medical School , recognizes the many benefits of antidepressants and prescribes them to his patients, but he has also led the way in warning the public of the dangers associated with over prescribing these drugs. Now, in the wake of overwhelming evidence, the FDA has finally stepped forward and urged pharmaceutical companies to include warning labels on antidepressants to caution doctors and patients that the drugs -- and more important, withdrawal from them -- may cause agitation, anxiety, hostility, impulsivity, and even suicidal tendencies.

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
by Helen Fisher (2004)

Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep.

Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain “light up” with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival.

Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.

Medicines Out of Control? by Charles Medawar and
Anita Hardon (2004)

Medicines out of Control? draws on the SSRI antidepressant case history to describe a system of medicines' control tainted by secrecy and conflicts of interest, barely accountable to the public, lacking in common sense and losing sight of the meaning of health. Subtitled Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill, this book reveals a demonstrably chaotic system of drug evaluation, driven by the almost unquestioned assumption that health is the product of greater ‘disease awareness' and more new drugs.

These trends reflect the growing dominance of global and market values that now threaten to turn pharmaceutical medicine into something of a polluting enterprise, deeply damaging to the atmosphere of health. Alas, this is no more obvious than global warming to the driver of your average car.

Medicines out of Control? is an attempt to promote a complete rethink about what medicines contribute to health, and the basis of decision-making about drug benefits, risks and harm.

Healing Without Freud or Prozac: Natural Approaches to Conquering Stress, Anxiety, Depression Without Drugs and Without Psychotherapy by David Servan-Schreiber (2004)

Stress, anxiety and depression are among the most common reasons for people to see the doctor. The drugs targeting these conditions are pharmaceutical bestsellers. Yet a majority of patients would like to be able to heal without taking drugs or engaging in therapy that involves talking about their problems.

Dr Servan-Schreiber gathers together the answers to questions about alternatives to drugs and talk therapy. He discusses only treatment methods he has used with patients himself, methods which have been proven to work in clinical studies. Written with case histories, this book should make those who dismiss alternative medicine think again and provide those those who are looking for help without taking drugs and without talk therapy with answers.

The Natural Way To Beat Depression by Dr Basant Puri & Hilary Boyd (2004)

If you're depressed - clinically, reactively or just feeling down, The Natural Way to Beat Depression might just be the sun emerging from behind the clouds. With orthodox treatment offering only medication with serious side-effects, recovery is often a long and painful process. And patients are often not so much cured, as their symptoms suppressed and replaced by a lifelong addiction to the prescribed antidepressant. But now a new solution is emerging that is safe, effective and entirely natural.

By ensuring an adequate supply of EPA – a nutrient contained in oily fish – Dr Basant Puri has achieved incredible success even in patients who have failed to respond to any conventional treatment. Now, for the first time, he reveals why omega-3 and 6 fatty acids are so extraordinarily effective - and how we can incorporate EPA into a healthy lifestyle to gain from its remarkable benefits ourselves.


The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Anti-Depression Diet and Brain Program by Andrew L. Stoll (2001)

A must-read for anyone dealing with depression, The Omega-3 Connection by Andrew L. Stoll, M.D., strikes yet another blow against the standard American diet. We already know that years of noshing on highly processed foods have saddled us with sky-high rates of heart disease, obesity, and related conditions. But, as we're starting to understand now, our eating habits may also be subtly altering our brain chemistry, leaving us vulnerable to anxiety disorders and depression. Only in this case, it's not just what we're eating--it's what we're not eating: foods containing omega-3 essential fatty acids--the "good fats" that help maintain optimal brain function.

In his book, Stoll, the director of the psychopharmacology research lab at Boston's McLean Hospital and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, suggests that restoring our body's natural balance of omega-3s may help alleviate (and prevent) many types of depression--even for those who don't respond to traditional antidepressants. Omega-3s may also prove helpful with other problems, such as the inability to handle stress, memory loss, and cognitive decline. The book contains a "renewal plan" designed to help readers put Stoll's concepts into practice, recipes for omega-3-rich dishes, advice for choosing supplements, and dosages for therapeutic use.

New Optimum Nutrition Bible by Patrick Holford (2004)

Completely Revised And Updated To Include The Latest Cutting-Edge Research The best-selling Optimum Nutrition Bible has revolutionised health. It explains how, by giving yourself the best possible intake of nutrients, to allow your body to be as healthy as it possibly can.

This revised and updated edition shows you: What a well balanced diet really means; How to boost your immune system; How to increase your energy and fitness levels; How to prevent cancer and turn back the ageing clock; How to avoid heart disease and lower your blood pressure without drugs; Why the wrong fats can kill and the right fats can heal; How to increase your IQ, memory and mental performance; Includes new charts and six new chapters, on Stimulants, Water, Eating right for your blood type, Detox, Homocysteine and Toxic Minerals.

Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers", with prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Loren R. Mosher and Pirkko Lahti, edited by Peter Lehmann

The book contents accounts of how 28 people from all over the world came off psychiatric drugs without once again ending up in the doctor's office. Additionally, eight professionals, working in psychotherapy, medicine, psychiatry, social work, natural healing and even in a runaway-house, report on how they helped in the withdrawal process. Loren R. Mosher from Soteria Associates, San Diego, who sadly died last year, wrote in his preface: “This book is a must read for anyone who might consider taking or not longer taking these mind altering legal drugs and perhaps even more so for those able to prescribe them. For details on how to order click here.

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms by Gwen Olson
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.

Rigorously researched and documented, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms is a moving, human drama that illustrates the catastrophic consequences of a health care system run amuck!

Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry working for health care giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Gwen is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, son, dog, and five cats.