The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

Wanted: A self-help and peer approach to “Mental Health Recovery” that can be done by yourself or with peers, and that focuses on building your own positive personal strategies for daily growth and overcoming stress and trauma. My guest Mary Ellen Copeland PhD describes the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP).

In this hour, I share what I've learned about how to live a good life.  I put my heart and soul into this in the hope it may inspire you in your life

I really like this hour.  My guests Katherine Douthit, PhD, LMHC and Tom Christiansen, LMHC work with elderly and dementia patients.  I start out with what it's like for me to be 76 years old and we go on from there to talk about older persons from multiple perspectives including agist prejudices, and their needs for autonomy and love.

My guest is journalist Robert Whitaker, the author of Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is a landmark interview about the present and future of psychiatric reform.

My guest Tom Garcia and I range over a variety of interesting topics from Aldlerian psychology to the treatment of addiction.  The theme: emotional distress arises from our failures to develop fulfilling human relationships.

So you think you can’t make a difference? My guest Orly Wahba is a young teacher who made a YouTube video seen by 5 million people. Learn how she’s spreading kindness and empowering people through her organization “Life Vest Inside.

My guest Michael Cornwall PhD explores how to help people labeled schizophrenic with empathy and without resort to drugs. Michael has vast personal experience and profound understanding. A “must listen to” show for anyone concerned about madness, its nature, and its healing.

This show originally aired on March 7, 2011. Howard Glasser is not only a great guest--his goal is to bring out the greatness in you!  Howie applies his Nurtured Heart Approach to helping individuals, training professionals, transforming schools and even enhancing communities.   This hour with me and Howard could inspire and guide you to find a more positive approach toward everyone in your life, including yourself.  It can help you muster from within yourself the power to be a more effective and loving husband or wife, parent, teacher, therapist or friend.  Howard, along with at least two marvelous people he has trained, will be among the more than forty presenters at our upcoming Empathic Therapy Conference in Syracuse, New York, April 8-10.   Find out about the conference at www.empathictherapy.org.  It is open to everyone

My guest is Chris Stankovich PhD an athletic counselor from Columbus, Ohio, who brings a fresh perspective about how to empower young people not only in their sports endeavors but in their lives.  A positive approach consistent with the best in empathic therapy

My guest Gerald Porter, PhD has a broad and wonderful vision of psychology and psychotherapy.  We focus in part on psychiatric diagnosis vs. a genuine understanding of a person's life