Prescribers and therapists who embrace a person-centered collaborative approach to therapy and to medication withdrawal will find it professionally gratifying and will help many patients and their families. Any time a prescriber determines that a patient is suffering from sufficient emotional distress to benefit from medication, that same patient should be encouraged to try counseling or psychotherapy. Prescribers can no longer assume the role of medical doctors or nurse practitioners working in isolation prescribing for patients who then depart the office to dutifully take their drugs. All psychiatric drugs have serious long-term adverse effects and tend to produce chronic brain impairment (CBI). The modern prescriber will best serve patients by working together with therapists, patients, and their significant others or families, especially during difficult drug withdrawals. Many patients and families feel wounded by their experience with prescribers and therapists. They feel they have been pushed into taking psychiatric drugs.