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Book sales are strange things.  Depending on how you cut the cake, it can take relatively few buys to make a book the number one selling book in a particular category.  It may be that there aren't a huge number of mental health law books and this explains how early orders of the new hardback copy of The Zyprexa Papers made it Amazon's number one seller in this … [Read more...] about The Bestselling Zyprexa Papers

This Review by Maryanne Demasi first appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Online December 29, 2020 Harvard-trained lawyer Jim Gottstein is the author of the new book, The Zyprexa Papers. It is a compelling, first-hand account of how a humble attorney from Alaska manages to expose the rot inside one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The … [Read more...] about The Zyprexa Papers: Outing drug company corruption

Paul John Scott's review of : Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence by Patrick D. Hahn (Samizdat Health. Available in Print or Kindle ) Prozac, arguably the most famous drug of our lifetimes, was never approved for sale. Rather, Prozac when combined with anti-anxiety medication was approved for sale. In an unpromising design that seems so very … [Read more...] about One Story to Rule them all: From Prozac to Abilify

There are quite a few books published about the lack of benefit and harm caused by so-called “anti-depressants.”  The fact that so many people have felt compelled to write such books is interesting in itself.  Prescription for Sorrow, by Patrick Hahn, is simply the best one I have read.  It is the most engaging and readable.  This is aided by victim vignettes of real people … [Read more...] about A Story of Iatrogenic Insanity: Prescription for Sorrow

This review by Kevin Miller was posted on Amazon under the heading The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction As one who has had the fortune/misfortune of reporting on the “science” behind prescription psychiatric drugs for 20+ years, I was thrilled to find MALCHARIST, the new novel by Paul John Scott. Mr. Scott’s writing is engrossing (I read this book in 24 hours), irritating (his … [Read more...] about Malcharist: A Spellbinding Thriller 2

This review of Malcharist is by Patrick D. Hahn, author of Prescription for Sorrow and Madness and Genetic Determinism with a further review below by Annie Bevan. What Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was to the Twentieth Century, Paul John Scott’s Malcharist is to the Twenty-First. This is a novel that takes the reader deep inside the Pharmaceutical Empire which invents diseases, … [Read more...] about Malcharist: A Spellbinding Thriller

  Malcharist began life as The Hemingway Effect, and possibly other things before that.  For a long time it was The Placebo Suicides before Paul John Scott decided to experiment and see if people would buy a book with a title that didn’t conjure up images they might identify with – other than something vaguely dark and threatening. The book is a page-turner about … [Read more...] about The Hemingway Effect

  Malcharist… warns, educates, inspires. Malcharist tells stories mirroring the ugliness and craziness of health care  Review by Gary Schwitzer I don’t read much fiction. Never have. As a journalist for 48 years, my mind and my eyes are focused on learning from history and reflecting on current events. But I’ve crossed paths with Paul John Scott through the … [Read more...] about Fiction that captures reality: Malcharist