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A radical psychiatrist and exceptional researcher who quickly came to see through the folly of his own profession, Peter shares several of his own strategies for combating psychiatry: from issuing medical alerts, to establishing an honorary blogger site, to creating a training program for a nutrition-aware, and loving kind of counsellor. He also elaborates on his own right-wing politics and how it came about. If you have a formulaic politic which identifies us lefties only as allies and the right-right wing as problematic, besides reading Peter’s other publications—for Peter is an undisputed leader—you owe it to yourself to read this chapter. You won’t be disappointed.
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Breggin, P. (2009). Wow, I’m an American. New York: Lake Edge Press.
Breggin, P., & Breggin, G. (2002). The war against children of color. Monroe: Common Courage Press.
Burstow, B. (2015). Psychiatry and the business of madness. New York: Palgrave.
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Representative Publications of Peter Breggin
Breggin, P. (1991). Toxic psychiatry: How therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biomedical theories of the “New Psychiatry”. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Breggin, P. (2001a). Talking back to Ritalin (rev.). Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.
Breggin, P. (2001b). The antidepressant fact book. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.
Breggin, P. (2006). The heart of being helpful: Empathy and the creation of a healing presence (rev.) New York: Springer.
Breggin, P. (2008a). Brain-disabling treatments in psychiatry: Drugs, electroshock, and the psychopharmaceutical complex (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
Breggin, P. (2008b). Medication madness: The role of drugs in cases of violence, suicide, and crime. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Breggin, P. (2013). Psychiatric drug withdrawal: A guide for prescribers, therapists, patients and their families. New York: Springer.
Breggin, P. (2014). Guilt, shame and anxiety: Understanding and overcoming negative emotions. Amherst: Prometheus Books.
(For Dr. Breggin’s website, see www.breggin.com)
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I decided on my own to use my comment to express my appreciation of Bonnie Burstow. Due to the profound perspective that Bonnie has on all issues pertaining to the field of “mental health” and psychiatry, this was among the most interesting interviews I have been involved in. In addition to her sheer brilliance in analyzing social issues, Bonnie has done some of the most courageous and innovative work in psychiatric reform. Consider her university classes, scientific articles, detailed scientific books, and fictional and dramatic works. Then there is her amazing scholarship fund at the University of Toronto for studies in antipsychiatry—something I supported while never imagining it could actually be done (for more on the scholarship, see Chap. 15). Thanks for the interview, Bonnie; we are grateful for your presence on Earth.
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Burstow, B. (2019). “Our Freedom of Speech Over Our Medical License”: Dialogue with “The Conscience of Psychiatry”—Peter Breggin. In: The Revolt Against Psychiatry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23331-0_3
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