The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

We live in unreality created by media in the service of corporations and government.  If you doubt this, listen to my guest Jon Rappoport who brings blazing insight and inspiration to the struggle for truth in our society.   

Bonnie Burstow, radical feminist therapist and author calls for the abolition of psychiatry.  We talk about that and the kind of society that would empower people to heal and to love one another.  Strong stuff.

Do dogs teach us how to love?   Do they build our self-esteem?   Would we be human without dogs?  Jeffrey Masson and I in a very lively hour delve into us and dogs, and ask "Who's better?"

A denied psychiatric atrocity: psychiatry's organized mass murder of mental patients in Germany was the "entering wedge" for the Holocaust.  Jeffrey Masson and I describe how psychiatry aided and inspired the murder of millions of Jews and others deemed inferior by the Nazis.

An amazing, moving, enlightening hour!  Jeffrey Masson discloses how Freud denied child abuse to further his own career.  Freud’s cowardice in the face of truth has repercussions for how all of us choose to live our lives.  

Therapist Bob Wubbolding, EdD and I discuss the heritage of choice-theorist William Glasser, and the nature and worth of psychotherapy, and its relevance to life and love.   I conclude that we need to spend much more time "chirping together."  See if you agree. 

Brant Mittler, MD, JD, cardiologist and attorney, brings enormous experience, wisdom and honesty to medical issues from eugenics and euthanasia to "managed care."   A conversation that will say something new to anyone who listens.  Don't miss it!

British psychologist Gary Sidley and I discuss his journey of disillusionment with the establishment and then freely indulge our thoughts and fantasies about what an ideal "mental health services" would look like. I found it interesting.  

Do not miss this show with psychologist Martin Harrow who has done the most extensive scientific follow ups on what happens to patients labeled schizophrenic when they stop their drugs early on versus when they continue taking them.  Guess which group does by far the best--the drug-free or the drugged?   Even I was surprised at the dramatic results.  

Michael Fontaine, PhD, a scholar of classic Roman and Greek society, illuminates our modern fields of psychology and psychiatry with his insights.   Did you know that criticism and ridicule was heaped on biological psychiatry from its inception in ancient Greece?   A very interesting, thoughtful, and enlightening hour.

British chartered psychologist Dave Traxson describes the "psychoeconomic colonization" of children by the pharmaceutical and medical industries and what stressed children really need instead. Interested in saving our children?  Listen to this show, please.

If you would like to think deeply about human biological evolution, and how it has prepared (and failed to prepare) us for modern living, my guest Jonathon Rottenberg and I do our best to reach into this fascinating and all-important subject.  We start with the origins of depression and move on from there.  

When last minute technical difficulties kept my guest from connecting, I devoted the hour to my forthcoming book, Guilt, Shame and Anxiety:  Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions.    I talk about the roots of what I call "negative legacy emotions" in biological evolution and childhood, with the aim of achieving emotional freedom!  Out on December 4, it can now be purchased in advance on Amazon.com.  

Dan Mackler travels the world creating great films on how to really help distressed people and makes this show fast-moving, lively and informative about the best in therapeutic alternatives  worldwide and about how to communicate through film in this new Internet age.  Listen and learn!

Want to delve into the experience of hearing voices?  Matthew Morris, a gentle, empathic mental health nurse in England provides a window, along with much wisdom about helping people.  My news flash takes lessons from the Santa Barbara shootings.