Peter Breggin
Mad In America
Ithaca, NY, United States
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Past articles by Peter:
The Most Dangerous Thing You Will Ever Do
"I've been watching my profession deteriorate." Psychiatrist Peter Breggin: The most dangerous thing you will ever do is see a psychiatrist. → Read More
Overcoming the Madness in Us All
I believe that the greatest challenge or threat to our identities and mental soundness comes from the fear of being unworthy of love. → Read More
A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat
Update on a legal victory against involuntary ECT, plus a new, more subtle way of inflicting electrical energy upon the brains of children. → Read More
“Page Not Found” Ends Up “Telling All” About Psychiatry
Let's take a look at how far psychiatry will go when a bit of truth escapes from one of its own publications and must be deleted in clumsy desperation. → Read More
“Let’s Not Go Overboard About ECT”
Refusing to take a rock-solid stand against atrocities results in violent people and institutions getting away with damaging practices like ECT. → Read More
How Love Can Reformat Our Lives
Even when suffering from the direst emotional reactions, we can begin to recover by remembering that we are or can become a source of love. → Read More
The Minds of Men: A Stunning New Film About Covert Mind Control
The importance of the new film The Minds of Men was underscored by the FDA suddenly and covertly approving ECT for “treatment-resistant depression.” → Read More
Are All Emotional Disorders Really Disorders of Love?
Could the whole array of psychiatric diagnostic categories really be expressions of the failure to love and to accept love? → Read More
Huge Breakthrough in Lawsuits Against ECT Shock Device Manufacturers
A major electroconvulsive therapy case that was on the eve of trial just settled to the satisfaction of the injured ECT patients. → Read More
Your Pharmacist is Tattling On You!
CVS should stop reporting to prescribers when their patients fail to renew prescriptions for psychiatric drugs. → Read More
Your Pharmacist is Tattling On You!
CVS should stop reporting to prescribers when their patients fail to renew prescriptions for psychiatric drugs. → Read More
More Psychiatry Means More Shootings
An irony of tragic proportions: Cruz was free to buy a gun because he was faithfully taking psychiatric drugs that can cause or aggravate violence. → Read More
What Should We Really Call Psychiatric Drugs?
There is no rational way to argue against putting psychiatric chemicals into the category of neurotoxins. → Read More
What Should We Really Call Psychiatric Drugs?
There is no rational way to argue against putting psychiatric chemicals into the category of neurotoxins. → Read More
The Three Most Important Facts About Psychiatric Drugs
When communicating with people about psychiatric drugs, what are the three most important things for anyone to know about? → Read More
Part VI: How Adult Society Betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy
A look at the factors that contributed to the tragedy that befell Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy — and how it could have been avoided. → Read More
Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt
Here we look more closely at the DA’s motivation and other activities in the Michelle Carter trial. Was it a personal vendetta? → Read More
Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She Tell Conrad to “Get back in the truck”?
There is no text, transcript or recording that demonstrates that Michelle Carter ever said anything to Conrad about getting back in the truck to die. → Read More
Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to Stop His Blog
In a major assault on freedom of the press, the DA’s office asked the judge to stop me from any further writing about the Michelle Carter trial. → Read More
Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil
Neither Conrad nor Michelle seemed to have been warned about the common adverse effects of the SSRI antidepressants they were on. → Read More