The Dr. Breggin Hour

Peter R. Breggin, MD, has been called "the conscience of psychiatry" for his efforts to reform the mental health field, including his promotion of caring psychotherapeutic approaches and his opposition to the escalating overuse of psychiatric medications, the oppressive diagnosing and drugging of children, electroshock, lobotomy, involuntary treatment, and false biological theories.

Dr. Breggin is the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books including Talking Back to Prozac, Toxic Psychiatry, Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, and Medication Madness:  The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Violence, Suicide and Crime.  He frequently appears in the media including many times on Oprah, Larry King Live and 60 Minutes and his work has been covered in all the major print media many times, including the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and the Washington Post. He is recognized as the most effective reformer in the field of psychiatry. 

Dr. Breggin has created a new reform organization that brings together professionals and laypersons concerned with a critical analysis of biopsychiatry but with additional special emphasis on effective empathic approaches in mental health and education (www.empathictherapy.org). The second Empathic Therapy Conference will be held in Syracuse, New York, April 13-15, 2012 (about the conference).  

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH, Dr. Breggin's private practice is in Ithaca, New York, where he treats adults, couples, and families with children. He also offers consultations in clinical psychopharmacology and often acts as a medical expert in criminal, malpractice and product liability suits.

Dr. Breggin's home page is www.breggin.com where you can find all his books, download for free dozens of his articles as well as other scientific research, watch videos of Dr. Breggin on TV and giving talks, listen to his recent Congressional testimony, subscribe to his free newsletter, read his blogs on Huffington Post, and find out how to take his graduate courses at SUNY Oswego in the Department of Counseling.