The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/25/14

Jon Jureidini is an Australian child psychiatrist and professor who believes as I do that human relationship is key to healing for families and children.  Dr. Jureidini combines high level scientific research with a caring therapeutic approach, making him an ethical and professional model for all of us in the field.  

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/18/14

Dan Mackler travels the world creating great films on how to really help distressed people and makes this show fast-moving, lively and informative about the best in therapeutic alternatives  worldwide and about how to communicate through film in this new Internet age.  Listen and learn!

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 05/28/14

Want to delve into the experience of hearing voices?  Matthew Morris, a gentle, empathic mental health nurse in England provides a window, along with much wisdom about helping people.  My news flash takes lessons from the Santa Barbara shootings. 

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Letters from Generation Rx - 05/21/14

Kevin P. Miller, filmmaker who gave us Generation Rx, the best one on children and psychiatric drugs, describes his upcoming sequel Letters from Generation Rx.  We discuss the limits on what doctors should be able to do to children, like prescribing them poisons in the guise of treatment.  Topnotch show. 

 

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 05/14/14

Canadian Marnie Wedlake, PhD describes how she helps people through their expressing and developing the narratives of their own lives, and how drugs and diagnoses interfere with this.   Also learn about qualitative vs. quantitative research.  Very interesting stuff.   

Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Sluggish Cognitive Tempo - 05/07/14

A new diagnosis "Sluggish Cognitive Tempo" to use against our children and for the drug companies.
My guest, Fred Ernest PhD, cuts to the core of our psychiatric assault on children.  A powerful show.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Drug-Induced Violence with Thomas Moore - 04/30/14

An extraordinary researcher Thomas Moore joins me to talk about violence caused by drugs, including some like Chantyx you might never suspect, and about the highest risk drugs among children, including not only ADHD drugs, but others again you wouldn't suspect.  This show is an informative as an hour can get.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Chrisanne Gordon, MD - 04/23/14

Chrisanne Gordon, MD, her own life transformed by a traumatic brain injury, became an expert at helping returning soldiers suffering from physical and emotional trauma.  Her personal story and her work explores what it means to be human and to find within yourself a spiritual connection that can triumph over injury to the mind and brain.   A wonderful hour that's relevant to all of us!

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/16/14

Thomas D. Ryan, MD is a pediatrician so principled and honorable that once he realized it was wrong to psychiatrically diagnose and drug children he stopped doing it and instead began to provide children with what they need.   Dr. Ryan is an inspiration and, if listened to, could spearhead a return to sound pediatric practice and save the quality of life of millions of children and future adults.  

 

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Data and Outrage on Psychiatric Drugs - 04/09/14

Bob Brewin, investigative reporter, provides the data and I provide the outrage and the analysis on the extraordinarily abusive psychiatric drug practices involving our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as afterward in the VA.  The drug companies found the ideal top-down market for their drugs: Get the army to give them to active duty combat soldiers--a mind-boggling 20% of them.  Unsupervised young men and women carry into combat 90-120 day supplies of all the most dangerous drugs: benzos like Xanax, stimulants like amphetamine; antidepressants like Paxil and Prozac; and antipsychotic drugs like the old Trilafon and the new Seroquel.  Hear an in depth expose and examination of the Psychopharmaceutical Complex at its worst and the irresponsible psychiatrists who so eagerly enforce it.  A tour de force of psychiatry at its worst.