Dr. Caligari's Psychiatric Drugs (Network Against Psychiatric Assault/ Alonzo Printing) 1984:

"Psychiatric drugs interfere with neurotransmitter chemical function and have inherently toxic potentials. Psychiatrists theorize that abnormalities in these neurotransmitter chemicals cause 'mental illness' and that their drugs normalize brain function. Our position is that there are no grounds for accepting psychiatry's basic assumptions concerning so-called mental illness and its supposed biochemical origins...

Almost all psychiatric drugs are depressants that slow down brains and bodies. The primary effect of drugs like Thorazine, Elavil, and lithium is to place the user in a chemical straitjacket. These drugs 'control symptoms' by restricting the individual's ability to think, feel, and act. Furthermore, this control often comes at the cost of discomfort, disability, and sometimes death...

The neuroleptics are psychiatry's most powerful drugs. The term neuroleptic means nerve-seizing and describes the semi-paralyzing effect these drugs have on the brain and nervous system...
The first neuroleptic chemical family was called phenothiazines, of which the first were Thorazine and Stelazine. An early proponent of the neuroleptics described Thorazine as 'a pharmacological substitute for lobotomy.' "