From asthma to schizophrenia, from bedwetting to neurosis, from itching to depression, there is hardly a diagnosis that does not entail the use of neuroleptics. The side effects of these psychiatric medications include severe physical, mental, and psychological damage, such as tremors, heart failure, impotence, cancer, tooth loss, and suicide. In this book, Peter Lehmann reveals what psychiatrists hide from patients, their families, and the interested public. "I learned more about the secret inner workings of psychiatry from this book than I did in ten years of psychoanalytic training. After a personal analysis and various other psychotherapies, reading this book was the best therapy I ever experienced." (Jeffrey M. Masson, from the foreword).