Rape of the Soul

by Ty C. Colbert

Book by Colbert, Ty This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964363526
• ISBN13: 9780964363526
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Kevco Pub
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 20 years

Customer Reviews

Best book on this subject

In the past two years I have ordered numerous copies and recommended this book to others to read. Everyone has the same remark on the significant benefit of this book. In layman terms the author very effectively outlines how the chemical imbalance theory has risen to dominance in this country. It then shows why drugs are a dangerous and often debilitating result for many. Far from creating "dry-mouth" these drugs often cause the very behaviors they are supposedly designed to solve. Increased suicidal thinking, akathesia, increased hostility from these drugs are not minor side-effects. Our society has paid the price for trusting in unscientific studies put out by the pharmaceutical establishment. By the way sedating or masking symptoms as this author shows makes it much harder for the person to become truly functional emotionally as further evidenced by the angry reviewer here who supposedly was "helped" by these drugs. If that's healthy a growing concensus is now saying "no thanks".

The tide is turning

My opinion is similar to most of the other reviewers - this book is great. For far too long, the unproven biochemical account of people's problematic behaviour has been the dominant view. And also, for that reviewer who says he has depression and scolds the book, just be aware, that having 'depression' symptoms does not make you an expert any more than a man who bashes his partner is an expert on wife-bashing disorder. This book was easy to read. I hope the author plans to write more. By the way, if you go to the website listed on the back cover of the book, you will be in for a big, big surprise.

A Fabulous Book!

Dr. Colbert has written a most understandable and practical text critical of the biopsychiatric model. In painstaking detail he explains the distortions and misdirection of that system which would have us believe human strife is largely due genetic and biochemical deficiencies or imbalances. In exceptionally clear fashion he details research findings and clarifies how many psychiatric explanations for "mental illness" are distorted and flawed. In a very interesting fashion, Dr. Colbert examines various instances where drugs "appear" to work. He details this from both a theoretical and practical standpoint which greatly helps to de-confuse the mental health professional and layperson alike. Indeed, countless clients/ patients have experienced "relief" following consumption of various psycho tropic medications. Consequently, it is often very difficult for them to comprehend how one can challenge the helpfulness and apparent efficacy of drugs. Dr. Colbert offers cogent reasons for the experience of relief and explains why that is often a seductive outcome. But, that outcome so often fails to address fundamental personal and interpersonal issues that ultimately must be dealt with in order to achieve a true healing process. In addition to the clear and in-depth examination of the issues under scrutiny, the author offers humane alternatives to medicating of human beings who are passionately struggling with life's meaning. Here, the rich humanistic, psycho dynamic, and systems perspectives that impact living are examined via examples from case studies. As a psychotherapist and educator with a great many years of experience, I fully intend to make Dr. Colbert's work a required text in my classroom. In my opinion, it is one of the most significant books written in the field of mental health in the past 10 years. Sincerely, Tom Mabee, Ph.D.

The true path toward healing.

Along with other courageous authors such as Peter Breggin, Bert Karon, and David Cohen, Ty Colbert provides guidance for the true path toward healing. "Rape of the Soul" discerns truth about the causes and cures for people in emotional pain. It is clear that making these truths known is fundamentally a spiritual battle.

A watershed book

I don't think I've ever read an entire book without blinking, but I came close with Colbert's masterpiece. I didn't want to miss a word. My own soul welled up with hope and passion as the simple understanding that emotional and spiritual pain cannot and should not be healed with drugs became crystal clear. This had always been my intuitive belief, but it is now buoyed by Colbert's thorough knowledge of the relevant research and his keen critique of the philosophy of the medical model of mental illness. In the past, whenever I read some new research "breakthrough" that screamed that biopscychiatry now knows the biological marker or cause for mental illness, my faith wavered. But it no longer does, thanks to Dr. Colbert's clear, passionate thinking.