The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

After I talk briefly about the brain-disabling principle of psychiatry treatment, my guest Dr. Robert Witchel and I discuss therapy and life.   A great opportunity to learn or to confirm what makes good therapy.  Lots of illustrative vignettes.

Bereavement and trauma expert Joanne Cacciatore PhD shares profound thoughts on the loss of children, and how to help, or to be with, people who have undergone life's most irreparable losses.  This remarkable pioneer in the field of grief provides a positive and inspiring exploration of life and death, and happiness.  I strongly recommend this hour.

In my intro, I review the current state of lobotomy and ECT. Then my guest Michael D. Ostrolenk launches us into a wide-ranging exploration of personal growth, individuality, freedom , democracy and society that reaches across political lines. A much need conversation in the world today.

Bob Rose, PhD is an educator you have to hear. He turns the Command and Control model on its head to create Self-Organizing classrooms that empower children.  Profound lessons for therapy and life and as well as education.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 05/29/13

Mel Schwartz, a therapist, and for me a brilliant philosopher of science and psychology, brings Emergent Thinking to everything from how we envision the physical universe to how we can improve our lives and our marriages.   Good listening; good stuff

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD provides a window into our dreams and their relationship to empathy, personal growth and psychosis.  Very enlightening.  For my brief intro, I respond to the escape of three Cleveland women from sexual slavery and suggest a "National Day of Male Atonement."

My guests are wife and husband Geri Carter and Tim Evans, both Adlerian psychologists and family therapists.  After celebrating our great empathic therapies conference this past weekend, we spend most of the show talking about the importance of relationship and how to make a good marriage the center of our lives

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/24/13

My guest Thomas Fewer is a New Orleans counselor who has spoken out against the diagnosing and drugging of children.  We talk about offering meaningful therapy for adults from an existential, spiritual, and depth perspective.   May other therapists be inspired to speak out and to practice according to what they know is right.

Mike and Hope Bundrant represent, in my judgment, the real future of "mental health services."  Working outside the system, they focus on delivering genuine help.   A lively sharing about self-sabotage and finding the freedom to love.

Lebron James, Tiger Woods and one-fifth of high school boys now labeled ADHD. Tie it all together with me and sports trainer Dr. Chris Stankovich in a wide-ranging discussion of sports, emotional crackups, broken bones, and life. Wow!   And don't forget our Empathic Therapy Conference April 26-28 in Syracuse (www.empathictherapy.org).

My guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD exemplies and lives what it means to be a therapist.  Working with returning combat soldiers and their families, she describes the impact of war on everyone who is touched by it, and devotes herself to providing thoughtful, caring, and innovative services.  Meet Gayle and learn about many frontier empathic therapies at our upcoming conference April 26-28, 2013 in Syracuse NY--www.empathictherapy.org.

BAM!  The fed's billion dollar Brain Activity Mapping project.  Neuroscience at its best? Listen to my highly informed guest Jon Rappoport as we talk about psychiatry in the service of social control.   The political left and right are turning to psychiatry as means for controlling violence.  Listen, learn and then link to my latest blog, "Never Again!" http://www.naturalnews.com/039560_psychiatry_real_history_school_shootings.htm

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/13/13