This book should be in every library and in every home. It is unusual to find a psychiatrist willing to state the facts about his own chosen profession. Near the end of his book Breggin says, "Psychiatry will fight to the bitter against any kind of reform. To this day, it resists even the slightest control over its most abusive practices such as state mental hospitals, involuntary drugging, electroshock and lobotomy, and it fights every attempt to increase patients rights." The book describes known problems with the various minor and major tranquilizers and mood altering drugs as well as ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. The book will be useful to parents and others as a reference, if not pleasant reading. Ones conclusions should be that psychiatry is to be avoided to the extent possible. One must assume responsibility for ones own behavior and there are less harmful alternatives to psychiatry.