The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

So you think you can’t make a difference? My guest Orly Wahba is a young teacher who made a YouTube video seen by 5 million people. Learn how she’s spreading kindness and empowering people through her organization “Life Vest Inside.”

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

My guest Michael Cornwall PhD explores how to help people labeled schizophrenic with empathy and without resort to drugs. Michael has vast personal experience and profound understanding. A “must listen to” show for anyone concerned about madness, its nature, and its healing.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - repeat program - 03/07/11

This show originally aired on March 7, 2011.

Howard Glasser is not only a great guest--his goal is to bring out the greatness in you!  Howie applies his Nurtured Heart Approach to helping individuals, training professionals, transforming schools and even enhancing communities.   This hour with me and Howard could inspire and guide you to find a more positive approach toward everyone in your life, including yourself.  It can help you muster from within yourself the power to be a more effective and loving husband or wife, parent, teacher, therapist or friend.  Howard, along with at least two marvelous people he has trained, will be among the more than forty presenters at our upcoming Empathic Therapy Conference in Syracuse, New York, April 8-10.   Find out about the conference at www.empathictherapy.org.  It is open to everyone!

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/23/12

My guest is Chris Stankovich PhD an athletic counselor from Columbus, Ohio, who brings a fresh perspective about how to empower young people not only in their sports endeavors but in their lives.  A positive approach consistent with the best in empathic therapy.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/09/12

My guest Gerald Porter, PhD has a broad and wonderful vision of psychology and psychotherapy.  We focus in part on psychiatric diagnosis vs. a genuine understanding of a person's life.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/02/12

My guest Mathy Downing lost her 12 year old daughter to antidepressant-induced suicide.  I was a medical expert in her case.  Mathy's story exemplifies how to rise from tragedy and how much can be accomplished by one goodhearted well motivated person.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/26/12

Good stuff to listen to. My guest Tim Evans is an Adlerian psychologist.  Reading Adler helped me understand empathic relationships in therapy and in life.  Talking with Tim is very grounding and positive.  Join us.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/19/12

Maybe the best discussion ever about overcoming depression without resort to drugs.  My guest Dr. John Snyder is a therapist and author with a marvelous approach to depression.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/12/12

Please listen to this show and learn about empathic peer support, a nonprofessional approach that steps wholly outside the psychiatric model, and delivers a caring human service to people in need.  My guest, Australian psychologist Tony Gee, will explain how to do it.  Then implement it in your own community and help to change the world.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

Today's show is "First Monday of the Month Open Mike," when I focus on callers.  I chat with a man whose "manic episodes" inspire him to deeper understandings, and with a woman whose five year old son was badly damaged by antipsychotic drugs. My friend Doug Bower describes last weekend's Person-Centered Conference in Georgia and I describe a marvelous Adlerian Conference I attended in Florida. Moving and informative discussions.