Episodes
Thursday May 25, 2017
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 05.24.17
Thursday May 25, 2017
Thursday May 25, 2017
“The FDA does more to legitimize drugs than to monitor them!” That’s what I conclude while talking with my guest, courageous Kim Witczak, who lost her husband to a Zoloft suicide, and who has gone on to be a Consumer Representative on FDA Advisory Committees. Kim is your eyes inside the FDA and every show with her is enlightening.
Thursday May 18, 2017
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 05.17.17
Thursday May 18, 2017
Thursday May 18, 2017
Did you know that ADHD kids have smaller brains? The esteemed British journal Lancet and 80 plus authors say so, and the media has spread the news. We must be grateful to my guest, Michael Corrigan, EdD, an educator and researcher, for debunking the study, and looking at what is really going on with this fraudulent diagnosis. Claiming that ADHD children have smaller brains fits into a long history of racist and misogynistic claims about white men have larger brains. It is ironic that the article claims to de-stigmatize ADHD by reassuring young people that they have smaller brains causing their problems in school. If you were a child, wouldn’t that make you feel dreadfully stigmatized and even cheated by life? As for me, as I confessed on the show, I have a smaller head, and therefore probably a smaller brain, than most people. My guest tells me on the air that he had the biggest head on his high school football team and hence probably the biggest brain, while when I played football in high school they could not find a helmet small enough to fit me. My helmet was always falling over my eyes, blocking my vision while I ran with the ball. I had to run with my head held up high to keep the helmet from sliding down, which was hazardous to say the least. Well, at least no one told me that my small head, and presumably smaller brain, meant I had a disorder.
Thursday May 11, 2017
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 05.10.17
Thursday May 11, 2017
Thursday May 11, 2017
Kevin Miller is the filmmaker of Generation Rx and now Letters from Generation Rx. He and I enjoy our tour of common falsehoods sold to us by psychiatry, medicine and nutrition in our world. For the first time in public, I talk more about my own enlightenment about nutrition, and my glorious first six weeks of plant-based eating. Kevin and I achieve a degree of eloquence as we describe the vast web of misinformation created by huge, financially powerful interest groups that push all the many medicines and foods that are more likely to make us sicker than to make us healthier. Good conversation between two old friends and colleagues, and value of continuing to learn.
Thursday May 04, 2017
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 05.03.17
Thursday May 04, 2017
Thursday May 04, 2017
My guest, British psychologist Peter Kinderman PhD and I agreed to do a show that examines the politics of mental health including the overall politics of human life, society, and government. This is the first time I have aired my own political principles in such detail on my radio talk show. I believe in Founding Principles of America, including personal freedom and responsibility, and small government. Peter views himself as a socialist who promotes the common good through government services and solutions. Yet we have so much in common in how we criticize biological psychiatry for obscuring and covering up the real sources of human suffering in our personal, family, and societal experiences. Peter and I certainly found this conversation interesting if not unique. We confront some of the most important issues in life, ones that bring us together, and ones that divide us. We illustrate how two people can talk together about their differences and their common viewpoints, reaching toward new and better ways to think about and to organize our lives on a personal and a political level.
Monday May 01, 2017
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 05.01.17
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
A positive, loving approach to helping children and adults in therapy, education and everyday life. Howard Glasser and his Nurtured Heart Approach are transforming thousands of lives around the world. Hear us talk about how you can bring out the best in yourself and others. Replayed from 9.23.15.