Compiled by Daya Patwardan, Pune, December 2004

Hedaya, Robert J. with Katz, Deborah (2000) ‘The anti-depressant survival guide: The clinically proven program to enhance the benefits and best the side effects of your medication’ (Formerly titled ‘The anti-depressant survival program’), Three Rivers Press, New York, USA.

Catalogue. No.: HL440/HED
Accession. No.: 00948

Robert J. Hedaya, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry, and one of the world’s leading psychopharmacologist. He also maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

An estimated twenty five million Americans take anti-depressants to combat depression, but most continue to cope with a host of debilitating side effects that equal, and sometimes, outweigh, the medications’ obvious benefit. “I’m not depressed anymore, but when do I get a life?”

Many doctors consider side effects such as weight gain, lethargy and sexual dysfunction to be necessary evils.

Clinical psychiatrist R.J. Hedaya has developed a comprehensive mind-body program to restore lost vitality, sex drive and control weight. The book offers a proven program of nutrition, exercise, stress reduction and hormone supplementation that not only lessens the side effects of anti-depressants but enhances their benefits as well.

The book contents read as following:

• The fundamentals
• A balanced nutrition plan: Restoring the vital vitamins, minerals, and hormones necessary to maintain good health
• A balanced exercise program to optimize the body’s metabolic system
• Spiritual renewal to restore the ability to experience pleasures in life, including relaxation, play and spirituality

Stoll, Andrew L. (2002) ‘The Omega-3 Connection: The groundbreaking anti-depression diet and brain program. Managing depression safely, naturally and without side effects’, Stratford Publishing, USA.

Catalogue. No.: HL440/STO
Accession. No.: 000880

Andrew L. Stoll, MD, is the director of the Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Boston, and an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of the 1999 Klerman Award from the National alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression for the studies described in this book.

For years, scientists have searched for a treatment to relieve the pain of depression and other mood disorders, one that is safe enough for nursing mothers, children and the elderly, without the side effects associated with medicines like Prozac, Zoloft and Lithium. Thanks to this book that search may well be over!

Stoll found that Omega-3 fatty acids, already known for their importance in preventing heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer, also play a crucial role in mental health. They regulate and enhance mood, sharpen memory, and even aid concentration and learning. Though these remarkable substances are abundant in common fish oils and other foods, the average diet includes far too few of the most common sources. In Indian diet, til is rich in this fatty acid, along with seeds like sunflower seeds and walnuts. Mackerel, a common and cheap fish in India, is also rich in these acids.

Depression can be reversed with adding Omega-3 rich foods in our diet. The book provides information on:

• which Omega-3- rich foods to eat
• how to integrate flaxseed and fish oils into diets and medication plans
• simple recipes, supplement doses and other sources of Omega-3

Werbach, Melvyn R. (1999). ‘Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness: A Sourcebook of Clinical Research’, Third Line Press Inc. California, USA.

Catalogue. No.: - HE710/WER
Accession. No.: - 000833

Melvyn R Werbach, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

As nutritional science has developed, so have the clinical applications. Compared to the massive research exploring the relationship between nutritional factors behind major killer diseases, relatively less research has been done to explore the relationship between nutritional
factors and mental illness. It is clear, however that nutrition can powerfully influence cognition, emotion and behaviour.

This book provides information, which can be used to make therapeutic decisions. It is meant to be used as a sourcebook, not as a treatment manual. A useful sequence for reaching a decision regarding the role of nutrition both as a causative factor and as a potential therapeutic agent, is as follows:

• Include the patient's dietary history and current eating patterns when taking
  medical history.
• Examine the patient for signs of nutritional deficiencies as part of medical
  examination.
• Review specific chapters relating to the patient's complaints and/or diagnosis.
• Review the relevant appendices.
• If indicated, perform selective evaluative laboratory testing.

Lehmann, Peter (Ed.) (2002). ‘Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazapine and tranquillizers’, Peter Lehmann Publishing, Germany.

Catalogue No.: HL420/LEH
Accession. No.: 001450

Peter Lehmann is author and publisher. Educated as a social pedagogist. Founder of Peter Lehmann Publising and Mail-order Bookstore. From 1994-2000, board member of the German organization of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. From 1997-2000 a member of the Executive Committee of Mental Health Europe, the European Section of the World Federation of Mental Health. Since 2002, European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) - secretary; co-founder of ‘Fiir alle Falle e.V’ (In any Case)

Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, such as, Haloperidol, Prozac, Resperidone or Zyprexa. To these users of psychiatric drugs, detailed account of how others came off these substances without once again ending up in the doctor’s office are of fundamental interest.

In ‘Coming off psychiatric drugs’, 28 people from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA write about their experiences with withdrawal.

Additionally, eight professionals working in psychotherapy, medicine, social work, psychiatry, natural healing and even in a runaway house, report on how they helped in the withdrawal process.

Contents of the book cover the following themes:

• The decision to withdraw
• Withdrawal without pharmacogenic problems
• Coming down step by step
• Counterweights
• Withdrawing from professional help
• Better sometimes than forever
• Professional acting
• The time after

Dr. Robertson, Joel C. with Monte, Tom (1998) ’Natural Prozac: Learning to release your body’s own anti-depressants’, Harper, San Francisco, Harper Collin Publishers, USA.

Catalogue. No. HL 440/ROB
Accession. No. 001081

Dr Joel Robertson is an internationally known expert on pharmacology and brain chemistry. He is the director of The Robertson Institute. He is the author of Peak Performance Living. He has provided performance enhancement programs and treatments for clients including General Motors, United Airlines, the Detroit Red Wings and many others.

Tom Monte is the best-selling coauthor of Recalled by Life and a contributor to Life, Natural Health, New Age Journal and Cosmopolitan.

A drug- free alternative to ending depression for millions of people, is what the book promises. For millions of people, depression is an inescapable fact of daily life. This book reveals, how to break the debilitating grip of clinical depression by ending self-destructive patterns of thought and behaviour. This easy to follow and scientifically proven approach to natural healing addresses the root causes of depression, not just its symptoms, and offers a new way to restore the brain’s natural chemical balance without the use of anti-depressants.

Dr. Robertson, an internationally known expert on psycho-pharmacology and brain chemistry helps readers to:

• Develop a tailored programme of diet and exercise that will restore natural
  balance to the brain’s chemistry
• Learn new techniques for understanding and breaking free of negative habits
• Adopt behaviors that produce and promote brain chemistry
• Use other natural methods to understand and overcome the cycle of depression
• Establish a lifestyle that makes full use of the tools we each possess to control and improve our own psychological and emotional health.

Edelman, Eva (2001). ‘Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and other Common Mental Disorders’, Borage Books, USA.

Catalogue. No.: HL430/EDE
Accession. No.: 000832

This book makes information on nutritional treatments for schizophrenia, as well as other mental disorders, accessible to the public. There is a new trend in medicine to use more natural treatments, providing a better and cheaper outcome with fewer side effects, thus fulfilling one of medicine’s most important objectives- not to harm the patient.

This book incorporates the following elements:

• Nutrients and herbs used to treat schizophrenia, depression and other
  mental disorders
• Physical illnesses that can include mental symptoms
• The role of allergies
• The role of neurotransmitter imbalances
• How alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, mercury, pesticides and other neurotoxins affect mental well being
• The major biotypes found in schizophrenia
• A special section on childhood disorders, autism, depression and violence
• A look at potentially toxic treatments
• Glossary, updated resources, index, extensive references

Ross, Julia (2000) ‘The Diet Cure: The 8 step program to rebalance your body chemistry and end food cravings, weight problems, and mood swings’ NOW, Penguin Viking, USA.

Catalogue. No.: HE610/ROS
Accession. No.: 000822s

Julia Ross has a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She is the executive director of Recovery Systems, a California clinic that treats eating and weight disorders with nutrient therapy and biochemical rebalancing. A pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology, her work has been featured on many radio and TV programs including Leeza and The 700 Club and in Natural Health, Delicious and other magazines.

Julia Ross, a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology, shatters the myths to reveal the real causes of over eating and weight gain. In this individualized program that begins with an 8-step quick symptom questionnaire you will discover your unique body chemistry imbalances, and you will learn how to eliminate them with your own-targeted nutritional strategies. Using amino acids to jump-start the program, you will feel your mood improve and your food cravings disappear. The diet cure will help you rebalance your body chemistry and attain your ideal health in a long-term manner.

The following are the major themes dealt with in the book:

• Correcting brain chemistry imbalances
• Ending low calorie dieting
• Balancing unstable blood sugar
• Repairing low thyroid function
• Overcoming addictions to foods you are allergic to
• Calming hormonal havoc
• Eradicating yeast overgrowth
• Fixing fatty acid deficiency

Shodhini Collective (1997) ‘Touch me, touch me not: Women, plants and healing’, Kali for Women: New Delhi.

Catalogue. No.: HL350/SHO
Accession. No.: 000094

Concerned about fast vanishing local health traditions, Shodhini, a network of women’s health activists, came together in search of a woman-centered approach as an alternative to the prevailing dominant systems of health-care. ‘Touch me, Touch-me-not ‘ is the result of their research. A unique compilation of edible plants and their medicinal values, all of them found in the Indian sub continent, the remedies in this book are the result of over eight years of treating women across the country for everything from vaginal discharge to menstrual disorders, uterine complaints, urinary tract infections and other ailments.

Carper, Jean (2000). ‘ The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence that food is your best medicine’, Pocket Books, UK.

Catalogue. No.: HE610/CAR
Accession. No.: 000779

Jean Carper is one of America’s best-known authorities on health and nutrition. She is the author of seventeen books including The Food Pharmacy Cookbook and Food - Your Miracle Medicine.

An essential guide to the healing properties of food we eat everyday. Onions as a heart drug? Broccoli to prevent cancer? Garlic to prevent blood clots? The Food Pharmacy reveals how these and many other simple foods can be used in the fight against disease and ill health.

Once considered to be the stuff of folklore, the exciting discoveries being pioneered by today’s leading scientists are now proving that food is our largest and most complex pharmacy. This reference guide to the healing properties of what we eat takes each food in turn, showing how it behaves as a drug, and, more importantly, how it can be utilized in combating specific ailments and health problems.

The book …

• Alerts the reader to the explosive new research in the pharmacological effects of food
• Chronicles some of the most dramatic discoveries in recent times
• Gives an understanding of some possible mechanisms by which food can exert therapeutic power
• Includes comprehensive information about the pharmacology of those foods about which there is scientifically sound evidence

Rudin, Donald and Felix, Clara (1996). ‘ Omega 3 Oils: Why you cannot afford to live without essential oils’, Avery Publishing Group. New York.

Catalogue. No.: HE610/RUD
Accession. No.: 000823

Donald O Rudin, MD, received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1948 and went into research. Fro 1956-80, he served as the Director of the Dept. of Molecular Biology at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute in Philadelphia. Dr Rudin has been member of fund-granting agencies, has been granted a number of patents and has numerous publications to his credit.

Clara Felix, received her BS in nutrition from the Univ. of California at Berkeley. She is a consultant and lecturer living in California, where she publishes the Felix letter, a bimonthly nutrition commentary she stated in 1981.

Specific fats play a crucial role in protecting us from many serious brain related problems. Certain fats also have an impact on everyday complaints like dry skin, achy joints, and intestinal troubles. We hear about one or two of these “good fats” and include some healthy oils in our diet. But, by not understanding what makes a “good fat” good, we unknowingly create imbalances in our systems that may lead to terrible disorders.

Dr. Rudin shows how different fats act within our own body, how modern food processing techniques have stripped a vital family of oils, the Omega 3 fatty acids, out of our food.

Thus this book is a practical guide to:

• Reversing heart disease
• Boosting immune function
• Fighting degenerative disease
• Helping increase fertility
• Improving mental health
• Promoting healthy skin.

Omega 3 oils offer a simple way to put the science of nutrition to work for us. The Omega Program can help one regain control of one’s life and health.

Cass, Hyla and Holford, Patrick (2002). ‘Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Help you feel good all the time’, Avery: USA.

Catalogue. No.: HE610/CAS
Accession. No.: 000835

Hyla Cass, MD is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. She is a prominent psychiatrist and expert on nutritional medicine. She is the author of St John’s Wort: Nature’s Blues Buster, Kava, Nature’s Answer to Stress and Insomnia and All About Herbs.

Patrick Wolford is UK’s leading nutritionalist and an authority on health. He is the founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. He is the author of The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Optimum Nutrition Cookbook and others.

What does it take to make you feel “high”? Do you routinely reach for caffeine, alcohol, cigarettes, or sugary snacks? If so, you are not alone. Many of us depend on very unhealthy means simply to feel normal, never mind, “high”. Unfortunately, the quick fixes do not work long term and often they contribute further to the underlying problems of fatigue, depression, brain fog and anxiety. Are there any alternatives?

Natural Highs says a resounding ‘yes’. The research shows how to formulate the perfect brain food to improve how we think and feel, and enjoy a greater sense of connection with everyday life. The authors present everything from simple solutions to more comprehensive programs combining supplements and mind-body techniques that will help you understand your brain and your moods and cravings, in a new fascinating way. With Natural Highs, you will soon feel good all the time, naturally and without side effects.

The book covers the following themes in detail:

• Getting in the Mood
• Natural Alternatives
• Living High Naturally
• Natural Highs at a glance

Watson, George (1974): ‘Nutrition and Your Mind: How to Overcome Anxiety and Depression through a Sensible Diet and Vitamin-Mineral Therapy’, Harper and Row Publishers lnc. , USA.

Catalogue No.: - HL400/WAT
Accession No.: - 000463.

George Watson, Ph.D. was formerly Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Southern California before devoting his full-time to psychochemical treatment and research in this vitally important new field.

What you eat determines your state of mind and who you are, says Dr George Watson. He attributes mental and emotional disorders on the physical malfunctioning of the body's metabolism. He shows how the amazing new field of chemical psychology may help the readers overcome emotional problems and give them a sense of well-being.

This book contains a test to help one discover one’s psychochemical type and to adjust one’s eating habits accordingly. It enlists foods which might give optimum health and energy and which may actually trigger psychological problems. It elaborates upon how to plan the diet and vitamin program that will keep our body in top health, both psychical and mental.

Ross, Harvey M. (1976) ‘Fighting Depression’, Larchmont Books, New York.

Catalogue. No.: -HL 440 / ROS
Accession. No.: -000482.

Harvey M. Ross M.D. is an eminent psychiatrist

Dr. Ross uses vitamins and diet in his daily practice. The theories in this book bring an important new dimension to modern psychotherapy, as he goes beyond conventional therapeutic methods and discusses the newest kinds of help. He elaborates upon a carefully balanced view of the various avenues of choice for physicians, families and the afflicted.

‘Fighting Depression’ sheds light upon the following factors related to Depression:

• What depression is
• How to recognise it
• Where to go for help
• Megavitamins and depression
• Hypoglycaemia and depression
• A diet that works
• Specific cases of success with megavitamins
• What your doctor can do
• Self help groups
• What families can do
• The good and bad side of psychotherapy.

Lupton, Deborah (1996). ‘Food, The Body And The Self’, Sage Publications

Catalogue No.: - MHW130/ LUP
Accession No.: - 000521

Deborah Lupton is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales. Her publications include Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies (Sage, 1994), Moral Threats and Dangerous desires: AIDS in the News Media (1994) and The Imperative of Health: Public Health and Regulated Body (Sage, 1995)

In an exciting, wide ranging and thought provoking analysis of the socio-cultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, emotions and subjectivity. She includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the context of childhood and the family as well as the social construction of foodstuffs as gendered. Other areas considered include food tastes, dislikes and preferences, the dining out experience, spirituality and the civilised body.

This book will be essential reading for students and academics inserted in the sociology and anthropology of food, the sociology of every day life and consumption, health and illness, medical anthropology, cultural studies and the study of diet and nutrition.

Arem, Ridha (1999). ‘The Thyroid Solution: A Mind- Body Program for Eating and Regaining your Emotional and Physical Health’, Ballantine Books, New York.

Catalogue. No.: - PC600/ ARE
Accession No. : - 000911

Ridha Arem MD is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Baylor College of Medicines in Houston, Texas. He is also Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston. He is a nationally recognised thyroid specialist. Author and Reader of Thyroidology - a periodical.

It is sometimes called a hidden epidemic. At any given time, millions of peoples have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguish that almost certainly arises from the very same source. It is treated as a simple physical problem, when in reality it is a complex blow to the body and mind and an increasing common cause of clinical depression, weight gain, fibromyalagia, high cholesterol, memory loss, anxiety and other disorders.

Ridha Arem's practical program for maintaining thyroid health through diet, exercise and stress control includes:

• The thyroid basics: what it is, where it is, what it does…
• How the hormones affect the brain, and alter mood emotion and behaviour.
• Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
• Tests to diagnose the same and what they mean.
• The vital connection between stress and thyroid imbalance.
• The benefits of antioxidants and essential fatty acid foods and supplements.
• Recognising and curing the deep lingering effects of a thyroid unbalance.
• How thyroid hormone can work as an anti- depressant.

Study Files on
‘Non Pharmaceutical Approaches to Mental Health’

Catalogue No.: - HE750 / AMH
Accession No.: - 000867

Alternative MentalHealth. Com, sponsored by Safe Harbor, a non-profit corporation, presents continuing medical education — 'Non Pharmaceutical Approaches to Mental Disorders: Physiological Causes and Resolutions’.

The main contents in this monograph include:

• A review of basic brain science.
• Mechanisms that can lead to severe mental symptoms.
• Medical conditions that present as psychiatric symptoms.
• Specific syndromes.
• Hormonal causes of emotional disturbances.
• Nutritional and herbal treatment of anxiety and depression.
• Laboratory testing for underlying causes of mental symptoms.
• Case histories, successful recoveries.
• Nutritional treatment for psychotic disorders.
• The role of nutrition and diet in mood disorder.
• Natural treatments for memory problems.
• The future of psychiatry through integrative medicine.
• How MSG and Aspartame create anxiety and depression.
• The role of body’s subtle energy in mental health.
• Psychiatric symptoms due to allergies and hypoglycaemia.
• The use of light in relieving depression and other conditions.
• Hyperbaric treatment for head injury and other conditions.

CDs of NON-Pharma III are also available for your listening pleasure.

Gant, Charles M.D., Ph.D. and Lewis, Greg Ph.D. (2002). ‘End Your Addiction Now: The Proven Nutritional Supplement Program That Can Set You Free’, Time Warner Trade Publishing, USA.

Catalogue No.: PC 270/GAN
Accession No.: 000830

From cigarettes to antidepressants, from painkillers to Ritalin, from alcohol to amphetamines, there is no longer a reason to struggle with your substance problem. Over the past fifteen years, Charles Gant MD, Ph.D., has successfully treated more than 7,500 patients with his innovative program of nutritional supplements, achieving recovery rates greater that 80%.

Dr. Gant’s potentially lifesaving plan can be used by anyone to reduce cravings or eliminating addiction. This is in the form of safe, inexpensive, over-the-counter nutritional supplements that restore the proper biochemical balance in the brain.

The book elaborates upon some of the nutritional plans that are recommended by Dr. Gant. They are as follows:

A way to get started - The ‘Quick Start’ stage of the power recovery program can help you reduce or eliminate substance cravings with 24-72 hours.

A way to reverse damage and restore health- This provides plan to detoxify one’s body with a comprehensive, easy-to-follow plan of nutritional supplement.

A way to stay substance-free forever- this Long term biochemical rebalancing helps you maintain your newfound freedom for life.

The principles found in ‘End Your Addiction Now’ are the future of 21st century addiction treatment.

Dr. Block, Mary Ann (2001). ‘No More ADHD: 10 Steps to Help Improve Your Child’s Attention and Behaviour WITHOUT Drugs’, The Block System Inc. USA.

Catalogue No.: PT 370/ BLO
Accession No.: 000827

Dr. Mary Ann Block is a licensed osteopathic physician and top-selling author of the books,’ ‘No More Ritalin’, ‘No More Antibiotics’ and ‘Today, I Will Not Die’. While other are debating the pros and cons of the psychiatric drugging of children, Dr. Block has spent her medical career working in the trenches, helping to get children off these drugs and to keep them off.

In this book, she brings to her patients the understanding and knowledge of a physician and the sensitivity and respect of a parent.

The 10 steps:

• Understand the medical system
• Educate yourself on the school system
• Dump the sugar
• Take you’re A, B, C vitamins. Perhaps ADHD does not actually stand for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but really means A Demand for a Healthy Diet.
• Attack the allergies.
• Repair the gut.
• Learn how to learn.
• Clear the head with OMT (Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment).
• Stand up for your child.
• Consider other underlying causes.

Dr. Block says that ADHD could just as well stand for Another Doctor Handing-out Drugs. This book may help to guide parent, step by step, to identify and improve their child’s health and learning problems and to a future with No More ADHD.