Beyond Prozac: Healing Mental Suffering without Drugs

In this controversial, deeply-felt and hard-hitting book, Terry Lynch takes issue with conventional medical treatment of psychiatric or emotional illness. He questions how doctors diagnose different levels of emotional disturbance, and the efficacy - and inherent dangers - of the drug therapies that are offered to many people as a matter of course. Dr Terry Lynch had been practising as a GP in Limerick for a number of years when he began to experience serious doubts about the response of the medical profession to emotional disturbance, serious depression and suicide: so called 'mental' or psychiatric illnesses. In his own practice he ceased working as a typical GP - devoting a small period of time to a large number of patients every day - and decided instead to provide a more holistic service, offering counselling and support to patients, some of whom have been gravely depressed or emotionally disturbed in other ways. Beyond Prozac is illustrated with the most moving and startling case histories which illustrate how emotional pain can be healed without drugs.