Psychiatric Drug Facts
with Peter Breggin


Peter R. Breggin, MD, has been called "the conscience of psychiatry" for his efforts to reform the mental health field, including his promotion of caring psychotherapeutic approaches and his opposition to the escalating overuse of psychiatric medications, the oppressive diagnosing and drugging of children, electroshock, lobotomy, involuntary treatment, and false biological theories.


Dr. Breggin has created a new reform organization that brings together professionals and laypersons concerned with a critical analysis of biopsychiatry but with additional special emphasis on effective empathic approaches in mental health and education (www.empathictherapy.org). The second Empathic Therapy Conference will be held in Syracuse, New York State, April 13-15, 2012 (about the conference).



A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH, Dr. Breggin's private practice is in Ithaca, New York, where he treats adults, couples, and families with children. He also offers consultations in clinical psychopharmacology and often acts as a medical expert in criminal, malpractice and product liability suits. He is the author of many scientific articles and books including Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime (2008).


Dr. Breggin's most recent book is Wow, I’m an American!

How To Live Like Our Nation's Heroic Founders (2009).

This unique book shows us how to live our personal lives by the same principles that our Founders fought for and memorialized in our nation's great documents.



What you may need to know about:


Dr. Breggin testifies before Congress in 2010 on antidepressant drugs causing increased suicide, violence & mania in the military. See the video here.


Read Dr. Breggin's New "Guidelines for Empathic Therapy"
Psychiatric drug adverse reactions (side effects) and medication spellbinding

Violence and suicide caused by antidepressants

Mental dysfunction and addiction caused by benzodiazepines

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) caused by antipsychotic drugs

Children, ADHD and stimulant drugs

The hazards of electroshock and psychosurgery

Psychiatric drug dependence (addiction) and withdrawal

FDA actions and shortcomings

Legal cases: criminal, malpractice and product liability

suits involving antidepressants, tranquilizers,

antipsychotic drugs, mood stabilizers, stimulants, children

and ADHD, electroshock (ECT), and psychosurgery

See Dr. Breggin's astonishing speech on Totalitarian

Psychiatry & the Nazi Holocaust.




http://www.breggin.com/



Dr. Peter Breggin talks about the 'road rage' epidemic, and its connection with anti-depressant drugs, such as SSRIs. These drugs can stimulate a kind of agitation inside a person, so that they're easily triggered into doing something that they wouldn't ordinarily do, such as road rage behavior, he reported. The government and FDA have dragged their feet on recognizing medication-induced violence, even though there's plenty of data for it, he added. For more, see his related paper ( PDF file).

http://breggin.com/spellbinding_psychiatric_drugs.pdf

Good stuff, thanks for sharing it Star.

Thanks Veneo

Anytime

I still haven't checked out the links on this, but it looks like a really good resource for me to pass along to people on some of these meds.

I need a whole day (or 2) to just check out the links I never have time to look at around here!

May-BE take or give yours-elf a " S-elf Intellectual Day " just for you.

Wouldn't that BE a Nice Day

A Day just for YOU & YOU