Peter Breggin

Peter Breggin      (Doctor)
Born	11 May 1936
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard College, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Interests	• Psychiatry • Psychosurgery • Covid-19
Peter Breggin ended psychosurgery in the United States.

Peter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication and Covid-19 response. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.

Career

In the 1970s Breggin started campaigning against lobotomy and psychosurgery in the western world. Over two decades he worked against what he called a "eugenic federal project at the nation's inner city children". He practiced psychiatry in Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland for nearly thirty-five years.

In 1972, he founded the Center for the Study of Psychiatry, which was known as the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology until 2011, when it was renamed the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry. In 1979 "Electroshock: Its Brain-Disabling Effects" was published. This was the first medical book that dealt with a critical analysis of this method of treatment as inhuman.

Truthstream Media, interview with Breggin, 25 October 2019 - 'Then They Came For Your Mind: The Untold Story of Psychosurgery'

Books

Year	Title	Publisher	Notes
2021	Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey	‎Lake Edge Press	ISBN 978-0982456064
2016	Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons	Routledge	ISBN 1138984167
2014	Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions	Prometheus Books (5 Jan. 2015)	ISBN 978-1616141493
2014	Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.	ISBN 1497638771
2013	Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families	New York: Springer Publishing Company	ISBN 978-0826108432
2011	Empathic Therapy by Peter R. Breggin MD, film on DVD	Studio: Lake Edge Press
2009	Wow, I'm an American! How to Live Like Our Nation's Heroic Founders	Lake Edge Press	ISBN 978-0-9824560-1-9
2009	The Conscience of Psychiatry: The Reform Work of Peter R.	Lake Edge Press (August 25, 2009)	ISBN 978-0982456002
2008	Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications	New York: St. Martin's Press	ISBN 978-0312363383
2008	Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex, Second Edition	New York: Springer Publishing Company	ISBN 978-0826129345
2007	Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications, Second Edition	Cambridge MA: Perseus Books	ISBN 978-0738210988
2005	Electroshock Treatment over Four Decades: The Case Against	Morgan Foundation Publishers: International Published Innovations	ISBN 1885679025
2003	The Central Intelligence Agency	Cengage Gale	ISBN 0737717262
2002	The Ritalin Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You	Cambridge: Perseus Books	ISBN 978-0738204505
2002	Dimensions of Empathic Therapy	Springer Publishing Company
2001	The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox	Cambridge: Perseus Books	ISBN 978-0738204512
2001	Talking Back to Ritalin, Revised Edition	Cambridge: Perseus Books
2000	Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis	Cambridge MA: Perseus Books	ISBN 978-0738204260
1999	Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why To Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications.	Cambridge MA: Perseus Books
1998	The War Against Children of Color : Psychiatry Targets Inner City Youth	Common Courage Press	ISBN 1567511279
1998	Talking Back To Ritalin	Common Courage Press, ME,
1997	Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Role of the FDA	New York: Springer Publishing Company	ISBN 978-0826194916
1997; new paperback edition 2006	The Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence	New York: Springer Publishing Company	ISBN 978-0826102744
1997	Enough Is Enough	Addison Wesley Publishing Company	ISBN 0201328100
1996	Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons	Haworth Press, NY,
1994	The War Against Children	New York: St. Martin's Press
1994	Talking Back to Prozac	New York: St. Martin's Press
1992	Beyond Conflict: From Self-Help and Psychotherapy to Peacemaking	New York: St. Martin's Press
1991	Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"	New York: St. Martin's Press
1983	Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain	New York: Springer Publishing Company
1980	The Psychology of Freedom : Liberty and Love As a Way of Life	Prometheus Books, Publishers	ISBN 0879751320
1979	Electroshock: Its Brain-Disabling Effects	New York: Springer Publishing Company	ISBN 978-0826127105
1972	After The Good War: A Love Story	New York: Popular Library	ISBN 978-0812814927
1971	Crazy from the Sane	Carol Publishing Corporation	ISBN 0818401028
1962	College Students in a Mental Hospital: Contribution to the Social Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill	New York, Grune & Stratton,

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A Quote by Peter Breggin

Page	Quote	Date
Mattias Desmet	“We have examined three of the many interviews given by Desmet before his book came out. Each time, he dismisses “conspiracy theories” without elaborating further. In these three interviews, Desmet does not use psychology to analyze and discredit people who write about conspiracies — that will come out in the book. That makes his book a bait and switch. The back cover of his book has endorsements from several heroes from the freedom movement whom I hold in very high regard, including professionals who have done excellent research and writing about the conspiracies behind COVID-19. I am guessing, and I hope I am right, that my respected colleagues, who are extremely busy, based their endorsements on Desmet’s interviews and his personal contacts with them — and they had no idea what he was going to write in his book about the emotionally disturbed people who make up or believe in “conspiracy theories.” From the number of endorsements from within the freedom movement, Desmet clearly targeted the group.”	23 July 2022

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