Family Quote by Robert Whitaker

“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it,…

— Robert Whitaker

“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had found it…

— Robert Whitaker

“I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic," she says, at the end of our interview.…

— Robert Whitaker

“Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them.”

— Robert Whitaker

“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in…

— Robert Whitaker

“If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you…

— Robert Whitaker

“...and she no longer is having her emotional responses to...stress numbed by medication. "I've been off the drugs for two years, and sometimes I…

— Robert Whitaker

“The cocktail she took usually included a mood stabilizer, an antidepressant, and a benzodiazepine for anxiety, although the exact combination was always changing. One…

— Robert Whitaker

“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in…

— Robert Whitaker

“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.”

— Robert Whitaker

“The prescribing of stimulants to ADHD youth began to take off in the 1980s, and today, thirty years later, studies have failed to show…

— Robert Whitaker

“That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and…

— Robert Whitaker