Coming off Psychiatric Drugs : Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Mood Stabilizers, Ritalin and Tranquilizers

The world-wide first book about the issue ""Successful coming down from psychiatric drugs"" primarily addresses treated people who want to withdraw on their own decision. It also addresses their relatives and therapists. Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, for example: Haloperidol, Prozac, Risperidone or Zyprexa. For them, detailed accounts of how others came off these substances without ending up once again in the doctor's office are of fundamental interest. In this manual, 25 former psychiatric patients from Australia, Austria, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, the Nether. Table of Contents......Page 5 Note about Liability......Page 8 Prefaces......Page 11 Introduction......Page 31 Mary & Jim Maddock: A Couple’s Slow Awakening......Page 75 Peter Lehmann: Relapse into Life......Page 84 Gábor Gombos: How to Deny a Psychiatric Family History......Page 98 Maths Jesperson: Between Lobotomy and Antidepressants......Page 101 Wilma Boevink: Monsters from the Past......Page 105 Katharine Zurcher: Second Fear......Page 110 Michael Chmela: Escaped......Page 128 Bert Gölden: With Patience......Page 135 Una M. Parker: Talking, Crying, Laughing......Page 146 Nada Rath: To the Convent Instead of the Clinic......Page 152 Katalin Gombos: From Electroshock to the Voice of the Soul......Page 157 Harald Müller: Twenty Years Later......Page 160 Olga Besati: Adversities......Page 165 Ulrich Lindner: I Ran for my Life – How I Healed my Depression......Page 170 Oryx Cohen: Crash Course in Psychiatry......Page 184 Eiko Nagano: Nishi Therapy—A Japanese Way......Page 193 Manuela Kälin: Home Visit by the Homeopath......Page 206 Fiona Milne: Like a Rock......Page 209 David Webb: “Please Don’t Die”......Page 214 Hannelore Reetz: Addiction or Search for Self......Page 228 Mary Nettle: Having Control Again......Page 239 Wolfgang Voelzke: Together with my Psychiatrist......Page 245 Lynne Setter: Return to Myself......Page 251 Marc Rufer: Creating Fear / Removing Fear – When You Wish to Withdraw, the Opinion of Your Doctor is Dangerous......Page 262 Josef Zehentbauer: Who is Afraid of Withdrawal? Medical Advice and Psychotherapeutic Counseling During Withdrawal from Sedatives......Page 280 Pino Pini: Alberto, Intellectually Disabled and Without Psychiatric Drugs. A Neuroleptic Depot Injection as Kind of Mediation......Page 302 Martin Urban: “Am I Really Still Disabled?” Psychotherapeutic Support During Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs—A Case Report......Page 307 Roland A. Richter: Supporting Withdrawal with Orthomolecular Medicine. Phytotherapeutics and Nutrition......Page 316 Constanze Meyer: “Withdrawal from Dependence on Medication...” Thoughts About Withdrawal from Benzodiazepines and Analgesics Among Women......Page 328 Klaus John: Withdrawal and Detoxification from Psychiatric Drugs from a Naturopathic Point of View......Page 349 Kerstin Kempker: Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs in the Runaway-house......Page 372 Elke Laskowski: Biodynamic Body and Aura Work with Bach Flowers, Stones and Colours......Page 376 Bob Johnson: Pre-conditions for Withdrawal of Psychostimulants in Children......Page 384 Susan Kingsley-Smith: Support in Withdrawal by Internet......Page 392 Regina Bellion: After Withdrawal, the Difficulties Begin......Page 399 Leo P. Koehne: “Now I Give You Imap. This Will Also Help with Social Integration!”......Page 416 Peter Lehmann: Resume and Returning to the Special Aspects of the Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs......Page 422 Karl Bach Jensen: Detoxification—in the Large and in the Small. Towards a Culture of Respect......Page 466 Psychiatric Drugs’ Active Ingredients and Trade Names......Page 476 About the Authors......Page 489 Index......Page 504 Books by Peter Lehmann Publishing......Page 567