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

 

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Monday
Nov142011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 11/14/11

Nonviolent communication is the path to much of what's good in life--including love and empathy.  But it doesn't exclude effective self-defense.  Practical approaches dovetail with philosophical subtleties with my guest Melanie Sears, RN

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Monday
Nov072011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 11/7/11

Guest: Martin Whitely



The best discussion ever about ADHD, psychiatric drugs, and what children really need.  My guest Martin Whitely has made Western Australia the only place on Earth where fewer children each year are diagnosed and drugged. He shares the latest worldwide information. Please listen and pass it on. 

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Monday
Oct312011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/31/11

Guest: Ross Halpern

Is what I've been teaching about emotional suffering also true about chronic physical pain?  Do chronic pain patients need help withdrawing from pain meds and facing emotional issues? My guest Ross Halpern, PhD offers breakthrough insights and solutions that really work.

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Monday
Oct242011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/24/11


You’re five years old, your mother dies, and you and your siblings are scattered into the Foster Care System of New York City. My guest Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams tells us how to make the best possible life--regardless of how our lives got started.

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Monday
Oct172011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/17/11

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My guest Jacob Azerrad, PhD offers behavioral therapy with limited punishments (time outs) and “nurturing with their love sibling caring behavior, Mother Teresa behavior and, taking disappointment calmly behavior. “  I believe in a more fundamental bonding based on unconditional love while teaching discipline through moral authority.  A challenging, stimulating show.
Tuesday
Oct112011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/10/11

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Two new legal cases provide encouraging news for psychiatric reform and patient care.  In one case a Manitoba judge has rendered an opinion confirming my testimony and my written report to the court that Prozac drove a sixteen-year-old boy to stab a friend to death. That's the first time a judge in North America has determined that an antidepressant caused a murder.  In a New Mexico case in which I consulted, a jury has awarded a $3.2 million malpractice verdict in a Paxil suicide.  I devote this radio hour to discussing these and other cases, and describe how antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs can cause people to act in bizarre, out-of-character and destructive ways.

Monday
Oct032011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/03/11

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Iris Chang, the courageous author of The Rape of Nanking, faced some of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century, broke down from exhaustion, was given psychiatric drugs, including an SSRI, and committed suicide. In this surpringly uplifting hour, her mother, Ying Ying Chang, celebrates her daughter’s life and examines the role of psychiatric drugs in her death. An empathic therapy intervention could have save Iris Chang's life. At the start, I also describe a major legal decision in which a Canadian judge has concluded, based on my testimony, that Prozac caused a sixteen-year-old to murder his friend.

Further reading found here.

Monday
Sep262011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/26/11

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My guest Gwen Olsen, author of “Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher,” will shock and inform you with her brutally honest and yet sensitive and poignant insider revelations. Discovering drug company duplicity is a specialty of mine, but Gwen’s stories touched and educated me.

Monday
Sep192011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/19/11

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Imagine that your former husband so desperately wants to kill you, and to get away with it, that he acts like a terrorist. Shooting from long range, he kills nearly a dozen people during October 2002 to distract attention from himself as a suspect when he kills you in the same way. The infamous “DC Sniper” turns out to be your ex-husband with you at the center of his horrific plot. You must find the strength, determination and wisdom to lift yourself up for the sake of your three children. This is Mildred Muhammad's story--one of the most interesting and inspiring you will ever hear.

Monday
Sep122011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/12/11

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My guest, Allison Wilder PhD, is a professor of recreational therapy. Does that sound fluffy to you? Not so. Dr. Wilder's approach epitomizes what's good in any and all therapeutic approaches. Learn about this new field--and the essence of all good human services.
Monday
Sep052011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/05/11

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Whether you are a therapist, a client, or a person outside the mental health system--my guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD is worth your time and attention.  Gayle and her husband Barry, a psychiatrist, run a stress management and therapy center in Savannah, Georgia.  Her compassionate, carefully thought out approach to understanding and handling stress, as well as underlying psychological issues, is inspiring. You will benefit from this hour.

Monday
Aug292011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/29/11

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Josette Luvmour, PhD and I talk about the developmental stages from infancy to young adulthood and how issues such as boundaries and discipline change from stage to stage.  Full of practical guidance for raising and relating to children and youth without resort to psychiatric diagnoses or drugs.

Tuesday
Aug232011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/22/11

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A first in history!  Listen to two very experienced psychiatrists spend a whole hour talking about how dangerous it is to take psychiatric drugs and how hazardous it can be to withdraw from them.  My guest is psychiatrist Stuart Shipko, MD from Pasadena, California.  My wife Ginger calls this show "spectacular."

Monday
Aug152011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/15/11

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My guest Dr.Bonnie Burstow is a dedicated lifelong Canadian activist in the psychiatric reform movement.  She is taking the campaign against electroshock "treatment" (ECT) to a new level--organizing professionals to stand up against this brain-damaging procedure.  Dr. Burstow and I discuss ECT, including what the existence of this barbaric "therapy" says about psychiatry as an institution.

Monday
Aug082011

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/08/11

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Today's show focuses on the most disturbing and enlightening events in the sordid history of psychiatry. Experts at the Nuremberg Trials agree with my conclusion that the Jewish Holocaust might never have occurred without German biological psychiatry blazing the way with the systematic murder of mental patients. With American and European complicity, German psychiatry developed the precedent and methodology for mass murder using "Euthanasia" Centers, gas chambers and cremation. Germany biological psychiatry showed Hitler how the unthinkable could be done without anyone in the Western world protesting. What are the implications for modern biological psychiatry?   When you've listened, to read my scientific article with all the citations and documentation, please click here

Video of my speech on same topic from early 1990s