MotherInterrupted's Picks on CPS, Child Welfare Reform and other related topics

	Toxic Psychiatry, Peter Breggin. Indictment of the "new psychiatry" and over-medication, especially of children, who suffer the chemical equivalent of a frontal lobotomy as the result of being put on psychotropic medications--neuroleptics--which make the children easier to manage, and put big bucks into the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry. (Mother's Day gift from my daughter). Read review
	In Her Image: The Unhealed Daughter's Search for Her Mother, Cathie Carlson. A good book to offer your teenaged daughter (especially after she returns home from foster care.) Helps undo the Myth of The Perfect Mother, and gives women some tools to cope with the realization that their own mother has shortcomings, how they've been affected by them, and what they can do to get over it.
	The Cult of Personality, Annie Murphy Paul. A writer for Psychology Today reveals the history of psychological testing, some of the authoritarian personalities behind the tests, and how dangerous they can be when used to label people.
	The Loony Bin Trip, Kate Millet. Kate's compelling story of how her friends and family betrayed her by having her locked up in a mental hospital, and how she fought to regain her freedom. Related topics: forced medication, government control of our lives.
	Profane Justice, Suzanne Shell. The how-to book on protecting your family from CPS.
	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins. Corprotocracies, the oil industry and modern-day slavery. (Who is "economic hit man" for Oregon DHS? Or is it a woman?)
	Fearless Living, Rhonda Britten. Rhonda Britten survived the murder-suicide of her mother and father, and has become an inspiration to all who are trying to move from fear and anger, to action and happiness.
	Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial, Paul Eberle and Shirley Eberle. One of the first child sex abuse witch hunts proven to have been based on a hoax. Recommended by Dr. William McIver II, expert on false allegations of child sexual abuse.
	Wounded Innocents: the Real Victims on the War Against Child Abuse, Richard Wexler--a must read.
	Memoirs of a Baby Stealer: Lessons I've Learned as a Foster Mom, Mary Callahan
	Witch Hunt, Kathryn Lyon
	Counterfeit Reality: Nightmare in Oregon, Pamela and Will Gaston
	Sui Juris, Pamela and Will Gaston (how to represent yourself in court)
	Smoking Gun, Gerry Spence (regarding malicious prosecution of Oregon women)
	Custody of the State, Craig Parshall (fiction)
	Twelve Things Adopted Kids Want Their Adoptive Parents to Know, Sherrie Eldridge (recommended by Taylor McLaren's grade school teacher)

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