Episodes

Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04.22.15
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
Wednesday Apr 22, 2015
A fascinating discussion with psychotherapist Jess DiGiorgianni, PhD a student of the classics, neuroscience, and the art of living. Is guilt ever deserved? Does creativity require suffering? What does it mean to "disappear" as a therapist?

Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04.08.15
Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
Wednesday Apr 08, 2015
Dramatic, touching, inspiring, informative. Ted Chabasinski at age six was given shock treatment but went on to become a brilliant civil rights attorney defending the otherwise defenseless victims of psychiatry. He talks with me and you about his life and work, and the upcoming May 16th worldwide protest against ECT.

Wednesday Apr 01, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04.01.15
Wednesday Apr 01, 2015
Wednesday Apr 01, 2015
Super show! Stuff I never knew about attachment, gender differences, early childhood and our anxieties. With amazing Jeanne Stolzer, PhD.

Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03.18.15
Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
Wednesday Mar 18, 2015
Today I talk directly to you without a guest about follow up studies showing that children diagnosed with ADHD 35 years ago have had their lives destroyed as grownups with brain damage and high death rates. I describe how and why this happens. I also describe our upcoming April 17-19 conference in East Lansing, Michigan, in the process surveying some of the best going on in our field.

Wednesday Feb 25, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02.25.15
Wednesday Feb 25, 2015
Wednesday Feb 25, 2015
A very powerful show about psychiatric reform and psychiatric malfeasance with Martin Paul Whitely, former parliamentarian in Western Australia and an extraordinarily positive influence in regard to controlling psychiatry. Please listen to this. (replay from 10.22.14)

Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02.11.15
Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
Wednesday Feb 11, 2015
Spend an hour with a truly brave and moral man, whistleblower pediatrician Dr. David Drew from Britain's National Health Service--before they fired him. Learn the hazards of bureaucratic medicine! Learn to live an honest life and to enjoy it!

Wednesday Jan 28, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 01.28.15
Wednesday Jan 28, 2015
Wednesday Jan 28, 2015
Therapist Bob Wubbolding, EdD and I discuss the heritage of choice-theorist William Glasser, and the nature and worth of psychotherapy, and its relevance to life and love. I conclude that we need to spend much more time "chirping together." See if you agree.

Thursday Jan 08, 2015
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 01.07.15
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
Brant Mittler, MD, JD, cardiologist and attorney, brings enormous experience, wisdom and honesty to medical issues from eugenics and euthanasia to "managed care." A conversation that will say something new to anyone who listens. Don't miss it!

Thursday Dec 18, 2014
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 12.17.14
Thursday Dec 18, 2014
Thursday Dec 18, 2014
British psychologist Gary Sidley and I discuss his journey of disillusionment with the establishment and then freely indulge our thoughts and fantasies about what an ideal "mental health services" would look like. I found it interesting.

Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 12.10.14
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Do not miss this show with psychologist Martin Harrow who has done the most extensive scientific follow ups on what happens to patients labeled schizophrenic when they stop their drugs early on versus when they continue taking them. Guess which group does by far the best--the drug-free or the drugged? Even I was surprised at the dramatic results.