LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY
Annotated Bibliography: Christian counselling
A Paper Submitted to
the Faculty of the School of Divinity
in Candidacy for the Degree of
Doctor of Education in Christian Leadership (Ed. D) Department of Christian Leadership and
Church Ministries
By
Mary Gracias
Lynchburg, Virginia
10/2022
Annotated Bibliography
Breggin, Peter R. Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace the
Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the “New Psychiatry.” New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1991.
This former teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School and consultant with the National
Institute of Mental Health has been writing for years sounding a warning about psychiatric
treatment and the use of medications and their value or harm. This text is one of many and
accompanies a voluminous website found at www.breggin.com.
Carlat, Daniel J. Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor’s Revelations about a
Profession in Crisis. New York: Free Press, 2010.
Carlat, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, reveals the risks of the “popular” psychiatric
diagnoses and the “cocktails” of medications that are prescribed to treat them. He also reveals
the inner workings of “collusion” between psychiatrists and drug companies.
Dineen, Tana. . Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People
Montreal, QC: Robert Davies Multimedia, 2001.
Everyone is a victim. The public has a broad awareness of this problem in psychology, but
the extent of the difficulty is made evident in Dineen’s book, an essential read. Both causes and
consequences of the effects of “victimology” are elucidated by Dineen.
Frances, Allen. Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric
Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. New York:
HarperCollins, 2013.
The former Chair of the DSM-4 committee reveals how the new edition of the DSM will
turn our current diagnostic inflation into hyperinflation by converting millions of “normal”
people into “mental patients.” In addition, Frances gives a historical review of “psychiatric fads”
that have driven treatment.
