The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

Kevin P. Miller, filmmaker who gave us Generation Rx, the best one on children and psychiatric drugs, describes his upcoming sequel Letters from Generation Rx.  We discuss the limits on what doctors should be able to do to children, like prescribing them poisons in the guise of treatment.  Topnotch show.  

Canadian Marnie Wedlake, PhD describes how she helps people through their expressing and developing the narratives of their own lives, and how drugs and diagnoses interfere with this.   Also learn about qualitative vs. quantitative research.  Very interesting stuff.   

A new diagnosis "Sluggish Cognitive Tempo" to use against our children and for the drug companies.My guest, Fred Ernest PhD, cuts to the core of our psychiatric assault on children.  A powerful show.

Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, MD believes you can make a marvelous life. Great guests, callers and conversations to inspire you.

Chrisanne Gordon, MD, her own life transformed by a traumatic brain injury, became an expert at helping returning soldiers suffering from physical and emotional trauma.  Her personal story and her work explores what it means to be human and to find within yourself a spiritual connection that can triumph over injury to the mind and brain.   A wonderful hour that's relevant to all of us!

Thomas D. Ryan, MD is a pediatrician so principled and honorable that once he realized it was wrong to psychiatrically diagnose and drug children he stopped doing it and instead began to provide children with what they need.   Dr. Ryan is an inspiration and, if listened to, could spearhead a return to sound pediatric practice and save the quality of life of millions of children and future adults.   

Bob Brewin, investigative reporter, provides the data and I provide the outrage and the analysis on the extraordinarily abusive psychiatric drug practices involving our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as afterward in the VA.  The drug companies found the ideal top-down market for their drugs: Get the army to give them to active duty combat soldiers--a mind-boggling 20% of them.  Unsupervised young men and women carry into combat 90-120 day supplies of all the most dangerous drugs: benzos like Xanax, stimulants like amphetamine; antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac; and antipsychotic drugs like the old Trilafon and the new Seroquel.  Hear an in depth expose and examination of the Psychopharmaceutical Complex at its worst and the irresponsible psychiatrists who so eagerly enforce it.  A tour de force of psychiatry at its worst. 

My guest Michael W. Corrigan EdD is an enormously experienced psychologist and educator who has worked for decades promoting more positive "prosocial" education. We discuss everything from the flaws of international testing that rank American education too low to what children really need which is... their parents! A frontier in education show with lots of information on ADHD and better approaches to helping children.  

My guest Martha Rosenberg is a genuine investigate reporter. Did you know the feds are developing a "vaccine"  for alcoholism and drug addiction? Or that Sgt Bales who murdered innocent Afghans was taking Larium, an anti-malarial drug that causes violence and suicide?  A spirited discussion.  Listen and learn from Martha.   

My guest Dr. Peter Kinderman heads a large Institute of Psychology, Health and Society in Great Britain, and gives us a window on the advances being made in GB compared to the US in mental health services.  He also provides wisdom and insight into the frontiers of psychosocial theory and practice, including the origins of emotional disturbance. A very thoughtful and educational hour. 

With guest psychologist Michael Cornwall, who himself as been through madness, this is the most profound examination of psychosis, its causes and healing, you will ever hear. Frightening warnings with an even more positive message. Listen and pass it on.

My guest Jon Rappoport, a truth-seeking, brilliant journalist, takes over the first half of my hour with a searing analysis of psychiatry's flaws, and when I arrive at the half hour he interviews me about my earliest days in the psychiatric maelstrom with real-life anecdotes about my younger days. Different and very interesting. 

My guest Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD is doing exactly what's needed in the field of mental health: offering the worlda self-help program that works so well it can keep people out of mental hospitals and improve their lives forever. The Psychopharmaceutical Complex will never surrenderpower. We need a range of personally-tailoredalternatives that people canuse for their ownrecovery and self-empowering. Thank you, Dr. Copeland.

My guest Patrick Allen is a Canadian philosopher andethicist who examines the underlying assumptions of biopsychiatry. A thoughtfulgive-and-take about the nature and history of anxiety and depression, and role of drug companies in determining how we view of ourselves.

Amazing British psychiatrist Philip Thomas takes us on a tour of exciting new reform events in Great Britain including theCritical Psychiatry Network which he helped to found. Also learn about yesterday's $1.5 millionmalpractice verdictwhere I testified onbehalf of a child damaged by psychiatric drugs.