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| A Reader Alert | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Drug Facts You Cannot Get Anywhere Else | |
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| Too Little Skepticism | |
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| Unique Sources of Information | |
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| Getting Inside the Drug Companies | |
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| Hiding the Facts | |
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| Quietly Settling the Cases | |
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| The Meaning and Purpose of Depression | |
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| The Most Common Causes of Depressed Feelings | |
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| Mired Down in Depressed Feelings | |
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| The Special Vulnerability of Depressed Children | |
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| When Nothing Helps | |
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| Not a Disease | |
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| Even Whole Cultures | |
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| Depression Occurs in a Context | |
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| Selling "Depression" as a Disease | |
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| The "Official" Definition of Depression and Antidepressant | |
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| Unanswered Questions | |
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| Damaging the Brain with SSRI Antidepressants | |
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| The Myth That Millions of Users Are Living Proof of a Drug's Safety | |
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| Closely Related Drugs | |
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| How SSRIs Work | |
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| The Nature of Serotonin | |
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| Limits of the Serotonin Theory | |
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| The Complexity of the Serotonin System | |
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| Disrupting the Serotonin System | |
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| The Brain Fights Back | |
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| Evidence for Permanent Damage and Dysfunction from SSRIs | |
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| More Evidence for SSRI-Induced Brain Damage | |
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| Drug Company Responses to the Danger of Permanent Damage | |
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| Looking for the Critical Research | |
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| Anticipating the Nature of Permanent Dysfunction | |
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| Dangerously Stimulating the Brain and Mind with Antidepressants | |
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| No Scientific Doubt | |
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| All of the SSRIs | |
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| The Stimulant Profile | |
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| Causing Mania | |
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| Burying the Mania Threat | |
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| Hiding the Truth from the Beginning | |
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| Deciding to Cover Up the Stimulating Effects | |
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| Dissent Within the FDA | |
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| Summing Up the Stimulant Pattern | |
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| The Insidious Danger of Akathisia | |
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| Variability in Patient Reactions | |
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| Multiple Additional Risks When Taking SSRI Antidepressants | |
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| Lemonade out of Lemons | |
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| Common Adverse Reactions in the Body | |
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| Cardiovascular and Bleeding Problems | |
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| More Prozac Problems | |
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| Extrapyramidal Reactions and Tardive Dyskinesia | |
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| Fertility, Pregnancy, and Nursing | |
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| Pituitary Gland Dysfunction | |
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| Throughout the Body | |
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| How SSRI Antidepressants Can Ruin Love and Family Life | |
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| Impairing Our Self-Perception | |
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| Love and the Brain | |
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| The Mechanism of SSRI Sexual Dysfunction | |
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| SSRI Indifference | |
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| Depression and Suicide Caused by Antidepressants | |
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| The FDA Knew from the Beginning | |
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| Learning from Science and Clinical Experience | |
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| Many Drugs Cause Depression | |
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| Antidepressants, Mania, and Depression | |
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| Prozac-Induced Suicide | |
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| More Evidence from Drug Company Data Confirming Antidepressant-Induced Suicide | |
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| The "Smoking Gun" | |
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| Driving Patients to Suicide with Akathisia | |
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| Additional Reports Confirming Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality | |
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| Seeking a Suicide-Free Prozac | |
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| Making People More Depressed with Antidepressants | |
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| The Mechanism of Causing Depression and Suicide | |
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| Antidepressants Do Not Prevent Suicide | |
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| Criminal Behavior and Violence Caused by Antidepressants | |
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| Playing at Being "The Saint" | |
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| Taking Care of the Dog | |
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| Ending in Physical Violence | |
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| A Natural Desire to Hold People Responsible | |
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| Antidepressants, Mania, and Violence | |
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| The Danger of Agitated Depression | |
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| FDA Recognition of Drug-Induced Violence | |
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| Drug Mechanisms for Causing Violence | |
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| Epidemiological Evidence from the FDA | |
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| Dangerous Drug Interactions and a Genetic Vulnerability to Severe SSRI Toxicity | |
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| The Serotonin Syndrome: Much too Much of a Supposedly Good Thing | |
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| More than the Liver Can Handle | |
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| A Missing Enzyme in the Liver | |
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| More than the Plasma Proteins Can Contain | |
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| Special Dangers of Treating Children with SSRIs | |
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| Growing Numbers of Children on SSRIs | |
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| Hazards to the Child's Brain | |
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| The Vulnerability of Children to Adverse Reactions | |
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| Confusing the Issue of Drug-Induced Mania in Children | |
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| SSRIs and School Shooters | |
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| Scientific Reports Linking SSRIs to School Shootings | |
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| Allowing the Prescription of Unauthorized Drugs to Children | |
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| Evidence for the Usefulness of SSRIs for Children | |
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| A Situation Entirely Out of Control | |
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| Forcing Parents to Drug Their Children | |
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| Withdrawal Problems When Stopping Antidepressants | |
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| How Drugs Cause Withdrawal Reactions | |
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| An Example from a Non-Prescription Drug | |
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| Lack of Physician Awareness | |
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| Rebound Versus Withdrawal | |
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| Interdose Withdrawal | |
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| Withdrawal from the Older "Tricyclic" Antidepressants | |
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| SSRI Withdrawal Symptoms | |
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| The Most Common SSRI Withdrawal Problems | |
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| The Most Dangerous SSRI Withdrawal Reactions | |
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| Differences in Withdrawal Reactions Among SSRIs | |
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| The Danger of Irreversible Withdrawal Reactions | |
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| Anticipating How You Might React to Withdrawal | |
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| How to Handle Withdrawal from SSRIs | |
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| Ten Principles for Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs | |
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| Physical Conditions That Cause or Worsen Depression | |
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| The Elusive Biochemical Imbalance | |
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| Physical Disorders That Can Cause Depression | |
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| Medications as the Cause of Depressed Feelings | |
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| Psychiatric Drugs Known to Cause or Worsen Depression | |
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| Some Recreational Drugs That Can Cause Depression | |
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| Medical Disorders That Commonly Cause Depression | |
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| The Importance of a Good Medical Evaluation | |
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| Diet and Depression | |
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| No Such Thing As an Antidepressant | |
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| Reviewing All the Recent FDA Studies | |
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| Drug Company Tricks | |
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| More Evidence That Antidepressants Do Not Work | |
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| Growing Recognition of Drug Company Influence | |
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| The Myth That Drugs Are Tested on Thousands of People Before They Are Approved | |
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| The Myth That Millions of Users Are Living Proof of a Drug's Efficacy | |
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| SSRIs as Panacea | |
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| The Limits of FDA Approval | |
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| From Lobotomy to Electroshock and Brain Stimulation | |
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| Stopping Psychosurgery on Little Children | |
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| Taking on the Harvard Surgeons | |
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| Deep Brain Stimulation | |
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| Causing Insanity | |
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| Trying to Stop Shock Treatment | |
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| Electrical Closed-Head Injury | |
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| The Targets of Shock Treatment | |
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| Failing to Tell the Truth | |
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| Scientific Evidence for Brain Damage and Dysfunction from Shock | |
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| The Promotional Campaign for Shock Treatment | |
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| ECT for Suicide Prevention | |
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| Committing Violence Under the Influence of Shock Treatment | |
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| What Should Be Done About Shock Treatment? | |
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| Transcranial Stimulation | |
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| Light Therapy | |
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| Your Doctor's Condition | |
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| The Safety and Efficacy of Natural Remedies | |
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| The Usefulness of Some "Alternative" Treatments | |
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| St. John's Wort | |
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| Other Remedies | |
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| How Drug Companies Can Deceive the Courts, the Medical Profession, and the Public | |
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| Caught in the Middle of a Fix | |
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| Withholding Evidence from Their Own Expert | |
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| The Testimony | |
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| The Jury Verdict | |
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| The Final Outcome | |
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| My Own Reactions | |
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| The Growing Impact of Drug Companies | |
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| The Role of the Federal Government | |
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| How to Overcome Depression: Suggestions for Patients and Therapists Alike | |
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| The Moral Context of Therapy | |
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| Drugs Versus Therapy and Life | |
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| Psychotherapy for Depression | |
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| What to Expect from the Therapy Relationship | |
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| The Effect of Depression Personal Relationships | |
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| The Effect of Depressing Therapy Relationships | |
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| Identifying Depressing Relationships | |
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| Helping Very Depressed People | |
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| Welcoming the Depressed Feelings | |
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| Dealing with Emotional Emergencies | |
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| Expressing My Views on Drugs to Patients | |
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| A Few Words for Therapists | |
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| The Importance of Limiting the Therapy Relationship | |
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| Love Is Not Enough | |
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| The Importance of Relationship | |
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| The Challenge of Being an Ethical Person and Therapist | |
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| Doctors Who Practice Drug-Free Therapy | |
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| The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology | |
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| Ethical Human Sciences and Services | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |