Peter Breggin
Peter Breggin
Peter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of biological psychiatry and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love and broader human services...
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contribute depressed violence
All of these things, especially in a depressed person, contribute to suicidality and violence,
dangerous psychiatrist psychiatry
Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
self understanding drug
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.
spiritual reality doe
In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.
presidential decision disease
Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.
best-love love-is romantic-love
Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.