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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
Wednesday Dec 03, 2014
Michael Fontaine, PhD, a scholar of classic Roman and Greek society, illuminates our modern fields of psychology and psychiatry with his insights. Did you know that criticism and ridicule was heaped on biological psychiatry from its inception in ancient Greece? A very interesting, thoughtful, and enlightening hour.
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014
Wednesday Nov 19, 2014
British chartered psychologist Dave Traxson describes the "psychoeconomic colonization" of children by the pharmaceutical and medical industries and what stressed children really need instead. Interested in saving our children? Listen to this show, please.
Wednesday Nov 12, 2014
Wednesday Nov 12, 2014
If you would like to think deeply about human biological evolution, and how it has prepared (and failed to prepare) us for modern living, my guest Jonathon Rottenberg and I do our best to reach into this fascinating and all-important subject. We start with the origins of depression and move on from there.