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Alternative Mental Health Books and Publications 
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	Orthomolecular Treatment for Schizophrenia : Megavitamin Supplements and Nutritional Strategies for Healing and Recovery (Good Health Guides) by Abram Hoffer - $3.95 COMBAT THE SEVERE MENTAL SYMPTOMS KNOWN AS SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH THE MEGAVITAMIN AND NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES OF ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY - Schizophrenia is a syndrome with biochemical origins that has the hallmarks of debilitating perceptual disorders and thought disturbances. Orthomolecular psychiatry, a treatment strategy that uses megadoses of vitamins B-3 and C in conjunction with correct nutrition, yields a 90 percent recovery rate in acute cases and up to 50 percent in chronic patients. This guide by the cofounder of orthomolecular therapy offers a step-by-step approach so that patients and their families will get the maximum benefits from treatment.
	Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and Other Common Mental Disorders, by Eva Edelman - $24.95 An outstanding and extensive discussion of the known medical causes of "schizophrenia" and other mental ailments. For the professional and layman alike. It is likely the most thorough text available on this subject. It discusses in detail the nutritional therapies pioneered by the orthomolecular approach ("ortho" = right or correct; nutritional approach). Also covers many medical ailments that can cause severe mental symptoms, thus creating apparent "psychiatric illness." Includes full treatment plans, medical tests needed, symptoms, and extensive citations regarding scientific research done. A must read for any professional wanting to fully understand and treat the true causes of mental disorders. An extremely helpful volume for any layman wishing to get a full grasp of the actual sources of "mental illness" and how to test for them and treat them.
	Nutrition and Mental Illness by Carl C. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D. - $10.36 Dr. Carl Pfeiffer was one of the pioneering researchers in the nutritional ("orthomolecular") handling of "mental illness." He successfully treated thousands of patients. This very readable, slim volume covers the basic medical and nutritional causes of mental disorders and how to treat them. It is an excellent introduction to the subject of how nutritional imbalances, metabolic disorders, allergies, and other medical ailments create severe mental phenomena.
	Preventing Misdiagnosis of Women - A Guide to Physical Disorders That Have Psychiatric Symptoms by Elizabeth A. Klonoff and Hope Landrine - $41.96 Although this book is slanted toward the discussion of women's health, it covers the common medical ailments that can effect both sexes and create the apparency of "mental illness." This is one of the very few modern books on this subject. It covers thyroid problems, hypoglycemia, temporal lobe epilepsy (a type with often unnoticeable seizures), and many other medical ills that are commonly diagnosed as "mental illness." Written for professional and layman alike. Includes a checklist of symptoms and possible medical causes.
	Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness: A sourcebook of clinical research - by Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D. - $59.95 A sourcebook of clinical research. This is a full collection of all the noteworthy scientific research in the field of nutrition and "mental illness." Broken down into various diagnostic categories ("schizophrenia," "depression," etc.), the book gives summaries of many, many research articles found in scientific journals. Very valuable for anyone wanting to know what nutritional approaches have proven workable (and which ones haven't). Includes the very successful nutritional regimen that has healed thousands of people diagnosed with "schizophrenia."
	The Enzyme Cure by Lita Lee, Ph.D. with Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg - $13.26  An eye-opening and very readable discussion of enzymes, a basic nutritional need, and how they effect both mental and physical health. Shows how simple enzyme treatment can treat 36 common ailments, including many that cause mental trouble. Includes an excellent discussion of hypothyroidism, a commonly missed illness that causes a host of mental problems. Also covers many case histories, including those with "mental illness" such as depression and "manic depression," of people who have recovered using enzyme treatment. (See Dr. Lita Lee's article on enzymes and mental health on this site.)
	A Dose of Sanity by Sydney Walker III, M.D. - $13.56 Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker III was one of the early pioneers in the research of medically-caused "mental illness." In this very popular book he discusses how psychiatric diagnoses such as "schizophrenia" and "ADD" are erroneous and useless. He goes on to cover how medical ailments are the "real causes" of so-called "mental illness" - a subject he researched and practiced clinically for over 3 decades. As one of the world authorities on the area, he gives many case histories from his practice of how Lyme disease, typhus, sleep problems, hypoglycemia, pin worms, and a host of other medical problems can and do create what looks like "mental illness." Includes a discussion of how to pinpoint ailments in yourself using Dr. Walker's 24-hour detailing of symptoms throughout the day. This is a great and easy read for anyone wanting to understand how perplexing "mental illnesses" can have medical causes. (See the article on Dr. Walker's work and the "extraordinary Walker exam" on this site.)
	No More ADHD - Treating ADHD without Drugs by Dr. Mary Ann Block - $12.00 This breakthrough book shows why Ritalin may be extremely dangerous to your child's health and why the condition known as ADHD can and should be treated through safer and more effective means. Dr. Block's revolutionary method is based on the belief that you can't treat the problem until you identify the underlying causes of ADHD. Using actual case histories from her clinic, Dr. Block offers powerful evidence that a drug-free approach works. (Also in paperback - $4.79)
	A.D.D. The Natural Approach by Nina Anderson and Dr. Howard Peiper-$4.95 This book tells about the pitfalls of using drug treatments on people with "A.D.D." and hyperactivity. The authors ask, "Are we creating a society of drug dependent children?" Written for the skeptic as well as the believer in natural healing, A.D.D The Natural Approach uses a common sense approach with natural solutions that work. The information within its covers could change your life and the life of your child.
	The A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. Diet by Rachel Bell and Dr. Howard Peiper - $9.95 The latest research information concerning contributing factors and dietary implications for people labeled with "A.D.D." They present this material in an easy-to-read book that reveals how candida can become a problem, what foods are common allergens and what foods can be toxic. They cover eating habits that contribute to maldigestion and immune system compromise, nutritional supplements that help and information on non-dietary approaches.
	Depression : Cured at Last! Dr. Sherry Rogers - $18.81 Dr. Sherry Rogers takes you on a guide tour out of depression and other severe mental states: "Are you depressed, blue, down in the dumps? Do you have a label of manic depression or schizophrenia, migraines, epilepsy, bulimia, anorexia, obsessive compulsive, Tourette's, attention deficit or CHRONIC FATIGUE? Have you been sentenced to a lifetime of drugs? Then you are in for the surprise of your life. For every symptom has a cause, something drug-oriented medicine seldom looks for. This book is the first time a doctor has gone on record to show you how you can find the environmental, nutritional, and metabolic causes of your symptoms, then proceed with the blueprint for the treatment and cure."
	The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vitamins and Minerals by Dr. Alan Pressman and Sheila Buff - $13.56 This is one of the clearest, yet most comprehensive, texts on nutrition that we have found. It gives a chapter on every vitamin and main mineral plus extra chapters on trace minerals and many other nutrients you hear about and find in the health food store. Very good explanations for many nutritional words. The book tells which vitamins and mineral are likely to be deficient in which groups of people. The effects of nutritional deficiencies, including mental troubles, are well-covered. It covers what ailments are likely to benefit from nutrient supplements. It clears up a lot of confusions and falsehoods and gives good advice on which nutrients you need to stay healthy and in what amounts.
	The Yeast Connection Handbook by William Crook, M.D. - $11.96 The 2000 update from the doctor who wrote the million-copy bestseller The Yeast Connection, which made “candida” a household word. (See our article on candida by Dr. Crook.) In his new handbook Dr. Crook covers all the modern knowledge on candida and shows the many disguises it can take and the multitude of symptoms (including mental problems) it can cause. Three chapters at the end give a cornucopia of tips and valuable info on dozens of topics related to natural healing, alternative medicine, and just plain common sense. This is the bible for anyone with candida problems or who has the classic symptoms of feeling “sick all over.”
	The Hyperactivity Hoax by Dr. Sydney Walker III - $6.99 In his inimitable style, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker takes on the psychiatric profession in the battle over the “diagnoses” of ADD and ADHD. Citing many examples of his years in private practice, Dr. Walker shows how children’s allergies, toxic exposures, normal medical ailments, and other physical problems routinely lead them to be falsely labeled with “hyperactivity” or “Attention Deficit Disorder.” He gives solid advice on what parents can do to help children who have been targeted by teachers or psychologists as Ritalin candidates. Don’t buy into the “hyperactivity hoax.” Instead, buy Dr. Sydney Walker’s The Hyperactivity Hoax!
	No More Fears by Douglas Hunt, M.D. An in-depth look (over 300 pages) at the extensive role nutrition plays in panic attacks, phobias, and other extreme anxiety states. Dr. Douglas Hunt gives step-by-step instructions on how to use supplements to overcome physically-triggered fearful conditions. Also included is a discussion of food allergies, the role they play in excessive fear, and how to self-test for them.
	Brain Allergies by William Philpott, M.D. and Dwight Kalita, Ph.D. $13.56 This is the 2000 edition of the classic book that has occupied health food bookstore shelves for years. Psychiatrist William Philpott relates how he came to recognize the role that environmental and food allergies play in creating severe mental symptoms from depression to psychosis. He extensively discusses nutritional factors in mental health. Case histories are related and testing methods are spelled out so the reader can track down environmental and food allergies.
	Depression-Free, Naturally : 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and  Anger from Your Life   by Joan Mathews Larson -$11.20 Many people who appear to have life under control are simply great actors.  Underneath they live with inner tensions, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, paranoia, racing thoughts, ongoing anger, and bone weary fatigue. What is the best treatment for these problems? Psychotherapy? Prescription drugs? Joan Mathews-Larson, Ph.D., the brilliant nutritionist who founded Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, believes that there is a better way to treat these mental conditions. Her new book, Depression Free, Naturally, offers revolutionary formulas for healing emotions biochemically. Developed and tested at Health Recovery Center, these natural formulas have been proven effective at eliminating depression, anxiety, fatigue, and anger.
	Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin, M.D. and David Cohen, Ph.D. $13.60 While your doctor may take fifteen minutes to decide you need a psychiatric drug, you may end up taking it for months, years, or a lifetime. You deserve to know the dangers in advance - including the difficulties you may encounter when trying to withdraw. Your Drug May Be Your Problem provides an up-to-date, uncensored description of the dangers involved in taking every kind of psychiatric medication and tells how to safely stop taking them
	Potatoes Not Prozac : A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight, Recognize How Foods Affect the Way You Feel, and Stabilize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood by Kathleen DesMaisons Ph. D., et al $9.60 The same brain chemicals that are altered by antidepressant drugs are also affected by the foods we eat. Many people, including those who are depressed, are "sugar sensitive." Eating sweets gives them a temporary emotional boost, which leads to a craving for still more sweets. This book presents a practical and workable eating program that uses everyday foods--with an emphasis on complex carbohydrates and vegetables--to balance blood sugars and ease depression.
	Kava, Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia by Hyla Cass, M.D. and Terrence McNally $10.36 Kava has been used ritually and medicinally in the islands of the South Pacific for centuries. Widely used in Europe, this herb has been shown to relieve tension and anxiety while maintaining alertness. In this very readable book, the authors give the full background on Kava, discuss it's many uses for anxiety and insomnia, and show its merits versus the drawbacks of psychotropic medication.
	The Diet Cure by Julia Ross - $10.36 Although written as a book on how to get off the diet merry-go-round, The Diet Cure is an in-depth look at how diet effects mental health. Through a questionnaire, the reader can narrow down the dietary or nutritional sources of a multitude of undesirable mental symptoms. Ross then follows with full and simple information on how to correct each problem through dietary change or simple medical advice. This book is a must for anyone with unwanted mental symptoms who wants to get on a sound diet for better health.
	What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause : The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone By John R. Lee M.D. with Virginia Hopkins - $11.96 Are you suffering from headaches, fatigue, anxiety, changes in your mood, maybe even depression or memory loss? If you're a woman, and more than half of us are, you may want to consider the effects your hormone balance is having on the rest of your body. Hormone balance does effect every system of our body, including our nervous system. In Lee's book, you will find a comprehensive guide covering the in's and out's of hormone balance, including how to test, treat, and maintain a harmonious hormonal system, and the dangers of synthetic hormones such as Premarin and Provera. Natural progesterone as an alternative to synthetic hormone replacement therapy, is widely considered more available, more effective, safer, and relatively inexpensive, with no known side effects when used in small quantities. This book will educate you on many hormonal concerns and natural treatments with over 300 pages of detailed, up to date, and medically trained advice. A must have for women of all ages!
	The Crazy Makers: How The Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children  By Carol Simontacchi - $11.96 In an age when over 7 billion dollars is spent on antidepressants per year, up to 24% of adults experience a mental health crisis in any given year, and 7-14% of children will experience an episode of major depression before the age of 15, it may be time to blame the real culprit. Prepared, packaged junk and fast foods are often condemned due to nutritional concerns.  However, these specific foods may also lead to mental problems including lack of mental clarity, panic attack symptoms, mood swings, fatigue, and anxiety.   Chemical additives like MSG and aspartame, as well as diets low in vitamins and minerals and high in pesticide residues, may cause mental symptoms that appear from nowhere. This author is a certified clinical nutritionist who suffered from emotional troubles such as depression, hostility, fatigue, and confusion before her own changes in diet alleviated these conditions. Concern for the reader’s well-being and mental health is continual throughout the book as she offers reasonable diet choices and recipes to incorporate into one’s own lifestyle and personal food preferences. Simontacchi suggests gradual incremental changes to one’s nutritional habits to reconstruct the damage that has been done and to lead one readily towards long-term success.
	End Your Addictions Now by Charles Gant, M.D., Ph.D.  Charles Gant, M.D., Ph.D., has put together a top-notch book on natural treatment of addiction.  Gant, who also authored ADD and ADHD, Complementary Medicine Solutions, has explained in detail the tools that have given him a more than 80% recovery rate with over 7500 patients.  These principles apply not only to street drugs, but to smoking, alcohol, Ritalin, antidepressants, painkillers, amphetamines and other substances. Drugs fulfill cravings that are actually a need for nutrients. Gant educates the reader on natural supplements that will kill the cravings in the first few days, then detox the body and rebalance the individual's biochemistry to permanently get rid of the need for drugs.
	Natural Alternatives to Prozac by Michael T. Murray $8.00  Natural Alternatives to Prozac is easy to read and well organized. It covers the basic underlying causes of depression and offers natural solutions that provide safe, effective relief.
	Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time by Hyla Cass, Patrick Holford   $17.47 Depression and anxiety have become rampant in our modern society, prompting ads everywhere for antidepressants and tranquilizers. Even lesser doldrums and states of stress can make life lose its luster. Is there something YOU can do about it? Yes! Natural Highs looks at dietary, nutritional and herbal supports that can make you feel good routinely. It's the guidebook for eliminating the eating habits that are bringing you down and fine-tuning the body's natural feel-good mechanisms to create a natural high.
	Is this your child?: Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies in Children and Adults by Doris J. Rapp $10.50 In this breakthrough book, Dr. Doris Rapp offers a simple yet effective approach to handling "problem" hildren. Is This Your Child? Shows parents how to identify the common foods, chemicals, or common allergic substances that could be the culprits that cause some children or adults to feel unwell or act inappropriately. If your child is always sick, hyperactive, a slow learner or cranky, the first question you should ask is not "What drug should be prescribed?" or "What have I done wrong as a parent?" Instead, find out the cause. Dr. Rapp gives sensible suggestions about how these reactions to foods and environmental factors can be recognized, prevented and treated. With this information, many affected children should feel, act, behave and learn better. If you can detect unsuspected environmental illness in your child or yourself you can change your lives so you're more content, happy, and free of illness.
	The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Rebalance Your Emotional Chemistry and Rediscover Your Natural Sense of Well-Being by Julia, M. A. Ross $17.47At Safe Harbor we routinely recommend Ross's previous book The Diet Cure to answer people's questions about the role of diet in mental health. The Mood Cure is even better. Can't handle stress? Can't enjoy life anymore? Does everything look bleak, even though you know it isn't? Well, much of this can be caused by bad biochemistry brought on by a poor diet, high-pressured living, and even a genetic inability to process nutrients well. In The Mood Cure Julia Ross covers the most common causes of various types of depression and anxiety (covering 4 "syndromes") and how to deal with these naturally for immediate results, sometimes within minutes. She makes heavy use of amino acids and other safe substances. Her self-treatment plans are loaded with backup options in case the original plans don't get results, as is often the case when one is hunting and punching around to find the right cause and treatment for mental symptoms
	The Cure for All Diseases by Dr. Hulda Clark $21.95 Dr. Hulda Clark received a doctorate degree in physiology in 1958. In 1979 she left government research and became an independent research scientist and began private consulting on a full time basis. Six years later she discovered an electronic technique for scanning the body for bacteria, parasites, heavy metals, dyes, solvents and molds. In this book she lays out what she calls the true causes and cures for all diseases especially depression, schizophrenia, autism, thyroid problems, chronic fatigue, migraines, seizures and MS. The purpose of this book is to enable the reader to diagnose and treat himself. Dr Clark shows you how to do the total cleanups - body (including a liver cleanse), environment, dental and diet (especially removing solvents and molds which are covered up by "natural flavors" in foods). The liver cleanse is reported to improve digestion dramatically which is the basis of your whole health. A hundred case histories are included.
	Smart Nutrients: Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's, Enhance Brain Function by Abram Hoffer, M.D and Morton Walker, D.P.M. $14.95 Once, senility -- the slow deterioration of mental capacity -- was considered to be an irreversible death sentence. Today, scientific evidence shows that targeted nutritional therapy can be used to fight a variety of diseases affecting the brain, including Alzheimer's, arteriosclerosis, and chronic malnutrition. In this book, acclaimed medical researcher Dr. Abram Hoffer and holistic health writer Dr. Morton Walker present a program of diet and supplementation specifically developed to prevent or reverse senility. They also provide an invaluable guide for all people who wish to achieve optimum health for their thought processes and memory.
	Children With Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jaquelyn McCandless M.D. $24.95 In 1996, Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D., discovered that her two-year old granddaughter had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. "Her diagnosis and unusually compelling nature," says McCandless, "inspired a reorientation of my professional life from the practice of psychiatry with a focus on alternative and anti-aging medicine to an immersion into the biomedical aspects of autism." Her recently published book, "Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder," is the result of that immersion. McCandless takes the reader into the latest scientific research on the many risk factors in autism: toxic reactions, heavy metal contamination, wheat/milk allergies, viral causes, etc. This is a much-needed, practical hands-on book for physicians and lay people alike that gives them real tools in bringing about improvements and sometimes complete recoveries for those children unfortunate enough to fall prey to the autism epidemic that has swept the world in recent decades.
	Optimum Nutrition For The Mind By Patrick Holford  Optimum Nutrition for the Mind, by popular British nutritionist Patrick Holford is the finest book we have seen to date on natural treatment of mental disorders. This is a must-read for clinicians and lay persons who want to know the underlying physical factors in poor mental health, ranging from depression to schizophrenia to Alzheimer's. Covering more than just nutrition, it delves into hormonal function, allergies, toxins, and many of the other hidden influences that so bedevil the "mentally ill" and result in their being misdiagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Virtually all forms of mental misfunction are reviewed, from sleep problems to poor memory to full-blown psychosis.
	How To Look And Feel Great! By Marcia Kamph, D.C. $11.95 Wouldn't it be wonderful if bodies came with owners' manuals? The next best thing would be Dr. Marcia Kamph's nifty volume, How to Look and Feel Great! In a little over 100 pages, Dr. Kamph tells us in easy-to-understand language how a body works and how to feed and care for one properly, with lots of emphasis on how the health of the body affects the mind. Giving the reader the benefit of her 30 years in practice, Dr. Kamph fills this lively text with additional info on supplements, many commonsense remedies for health problems, and tons of tips on how to keep mind and body revved for happy living.

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