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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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Monday Jul 30, 2012
Monday Jul 30, 2012
Are personal responsibility and free will mirages? Is there a better “post-modern” approach to therapy? My guest Stephen Madigan and I express opposing views on how to empower people.
Monday Jul 23, 2012
Monday Jul 23, 2012
My guest is Lisbeth Riis Cooper founder of the Mother Bear Community Action Network and the visionary behind the CooperRiis Healing Community. Hope and an expectation of recovery are the guiding lights for this shining star in the reform movement.
Monday Jul 16, 2012
Monday Jul 16, 2012
Can recovery from head injury lead to greater emotional and spiritual awareness and well being? My guest Chrisanne Gordon, MD who recovered from head injury shares enlightening experiences about personal transformation following physical and emotional trauma. A very special hour!
Monday Jul 09, 2012
Monday Jul 09, 2012
Author Martha Rosenberg knows her stuff about big pharma and drugs. Enlightening discussions about Direct to Consumer Advertising, the Feds $3 billion fines against Glaxo, and how the military was bought by Pharma. New information!
Monday Jul 02, 2012
Monday Jul 02, 2012
My guest Kevin Solomons MD is a British Columbia psychiatrist who became disappointed with medication outcomes and began listening to why his patients felt so bad about themselves. Explore with us the origins of low self-esteem and the path to a better life.
Monday Jun 25, 2012
Monday Jun 25, 2012
Wanted: A self-help and peer approach to “Mental Health Recovery” that can be done by yourself or with peers, and that focuses on building your own positive personal strategies for daily growth and overcoming stress and trauma. My guest Mary Ellen Copeland PhD describes the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP).
Monday Jun 18, 2012
Monday Jun 18, 2012
In this hour, I share what I've learned about how to live a good life. I put my heart and soul into this in the hope it may inspire you in your life.
Monday Jun 11, 2012
Monday Jun 11, 2012
I really like this hour. My guests Katherine Douthit, PhD, LMHC and Tom Christiansen, LMHC work with elderly and dementia patients. I start out with what it's like for me to be 76 years old and we go on from there to talk about older persons from multiple perspectives including agist prejudices, and their needs for autonomy and love.
Monday Jun 04, 2012
Monday Jun 04, 2012
My guest is journalist Robert Whitaker, the author of Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is a landmark interview about the present and future of psychiatric reform.
Monday May 21, 2012
Monday May 21, 2012
My guest Tom Garcia and I range over a variety of interesting topics from Aldlerian psychology to the treatment of addiction. The theme: emotional distress arises from our failures to develop fulfilling human relationships.