Title: The Medicated Mind
Subtitle: First-Person Accounts of Life on Psychiatric Drugs
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Medicine and Medical Ethics, Business and Management  
BIC Classification: MMH, MB, KJ
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Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Dec 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-784-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-785-7

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Description

This volume focuses on the experience of being prescribed psychiatric medications, being on psychiatric medications, the direct benefits, indirect benefits (like the placebo effect), and negative consequences of being on psychiatric medications, and the saga of trying to get off of and live without psychiatric medications.

Centering first-person accounts, users describe their physical, psychological and existential challenges dealing with the powerful chemicals that today form the first-line “treatment” of so-called mental disorders, to include reports on the coercive nature of provider/user interactions, identify disruption, and tapering and withdrawal efforts.

Included are the observations and suggestions of de- prescribing advocates, an examination of the relationships among tech, fitness wearables, data collection, and the user’s experience, and the prevalence and value of peer-support and user-to-user experiences.

Anchoring chapters will look at the following meta issues: the extent to which user reports can and should be considered accurate, reliable and/or valuable information, the absence of official guidelines and regulatory narratives that would protect users, and the question of how to situate first-person reports in understanding human distress.

The Medicated Mind is the tenth Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.

Biography

Editor(s):  Arnoldo Cantú, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with experience in school social work, private practice, community mental health, and currently working in primary care behavioral health seeing children, adolescents, families, and adults. Jeffrey Lacasse is a professor at Florida State University, USA. Dr. Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is a former family therapist, based in California, USA, who works actively as a creativity coach. He is the author of many books on creativity, psychology, and mental health.

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