The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/15/14

When last minute technical difficulties kept my guest from connecting, I devoted the hour to my forthcoming book, Guilt, Shame and Anxiety:  Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions.    I talk about the roots of what I call "negative legacy emotions" in biological evolution and childhood, with the aim of achieving emotional freedom!  Out on December 4, it can now be purchased in advance on Amazon.com.  

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/08/14

Kelly Parsons in a physician with a first novel, a medical thriller called Doing Harm, that may become a bestseller. Learn about what it takes to write your first novel, and also about safety issues in medicine from an expert. 

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10/01/14

British researcher Gaia Marcus is on the cutting edge of helping people connect for their psychological and physical improvement.  But can technology inspire social relationships?   Can a computer be a tool for a more fulfilling life?   Important questions and interesting new directions.  

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/24/14

My guest is Gina Nikkel, Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care.  Her group funds the most cutting edge, pioneering and successful projects in recovery today.  Her work offers hope for the future.  You will want to say, as I do, "Thank you, Gina."

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/17/14

My guest Michael Orban vividly describes his journey from the jungles of Vietnam and the trauma of war through a recovery that includes regaining meaning from African pigmies and their spiritual immersion in nature.   He was inspired, as I have also been, by Albert Schweitzer's "will to live" and "reverence for life,"  and explains how he applies relationship and values to helping veteran's from today's wars.  

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/10/14

Listening to Penelope Young Andrade LCSW exchange with ideas me is like immersing yourself in an inspiring psychotherapy session.   Learn more about your emotions and how they can promote your success and happiness!  For clients, therapists who want to be true to their work, and anybody with feelings.

 

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 09/03/14

Jeanne Stolzer, professor of child and adolescent development, will amaze you with her science-based  insights into the vast importance of truly natural childbirth, of nursing, and of mother-child physical and emotional closeness.  Controversial and factual.  Hear me lapse into stunned silence.   PS:  I'll be giving a free lecture at her university in Kearney, Nebraska the evening of Sept 15.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/27/14

Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D, inspires us with clarity and thoughtfulness as we range over how to help an entire school improve its academic performance and quality of life, and how to apply the same positive principles to family and corporate life--all while fending off the Psychopharmaceutical Complex.  Life lessons from a courageous psychologist!

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 08/06/14

Advocate Richard Lawhern's first ever radio show turned out to be one of my most enlightening.   Learn how psychiatric diagnoses can demoralize and lead to suicide.  Learn the risks of being diagnosed with somatoform or somatic symptom disorders.   Even more about the perfidy of DSM-5!

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 07/23/14

Orly Wahba is taking the world by storm with kindness!  Her project "Life Vest Inside" unites people throughout the world to spread kindness, promoting the essence of what's good and helpful.  "The more I give, the more I heal" she declares as she touches tens of millions.