Holistic Psychology & Whole Person Psychiatry - People not drugs

Alternative treatment to ADD

ADHD over diagnosis

Anti-psychotic drug dangers

Assault charges dropped because of psychiatric drugs

Ritalin Class Action Suit

Dr. Peter Breggin

Center for Study of Psychiatry & Psychology

Critical analysis of the NIMH Multimodal Treatment Study for ADD

Electroshock dangers

Healing depression naturally

Medical model

Neuroleptic drug dangers

Patient who cured his therapist

Prozac dangers

Psychosocial solutions versus psychiatric drugs conference

Reclaiming Our Children

Ritalin class action suit filed

San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center

Saving our children

Stop medicating our young children

Talking Back to Ritalin

Toxic Psychiatry

Your Drug may be your Problem

What heals human beings?

The Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (CSPP) and Dr. Peter R. Breggin

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. is a psychiatrist in full-time private practice in Bethesda, Maryland where he treats children, adults and families. Dr. Breggin is one of the world's foremost critics of biological psychiatry, including psychiatric drugs, and a strong advocate for psychological and social human services. He is the founder and International Director of the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP), a reform-oriented research and educational network. Dr. Breggin is Editor-in-Chief of ICSPP's new peer-reviewed professional journal entitled Ethical Human Sciences and Services: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry. The first issue will be published in May 1999. Meanwhile, Dr. Breggin is on the editorial boards of several other peer-reviewed journals. He acts as a forensic medical expert in the courts.

Dr. Breggin has taught on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University and George Mason University, as well as the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Breggin is the author of a dozen books, including Toxic Psychiatry (1991), Talking Back to Ritalin (1998) Beyond Conflict (1992), and with Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac (1994) and The War Against Children of Color (1998). In 1997 Springer Publishing Company simultaneously released Dr. Breggin's professional books Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Role of the FDA and The Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence. Dr. Breggin has also published two dozen peer-reviewed articles in the field of psychiatry.

Dr. Breggin's reform work began in the 1950s as a college student when he directed the Harvard-Radcliffe Mental Hospital Volunteer Program. He graduated with honors from Harvard and then received his medical training at Case Western Reserve. He took his psychiatric training at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, and at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where he was also a teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School. Before going into private practice in 1968, he spent two years as a full-time consultant with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In November, 1998 he was a scientific presenter at the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

During the early 1970s, Dr. Breggin founded the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology in a successful effort to stop the resurgence of lobotomy and other forms of psychosurgery. The center's board of directors and advisory council have grown to include more than one hundred psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and other leading mental health professionals, as well as patient advocates, attorneys and members of the U. S. Congress. The center also has a general membership and a newsletter. It continues to pursue a variety of reform projects in psychiatry.

Dr. Breggin's work is frequently covered in the national media such as the New York Times, Time (including a recent profile), the Washington Post (another recent profile), the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker. He regularly appears on radio and TV, including "Oprah," "Larry King Live," "Montel Williams," "Sally," "Donahue," "20/20," "60 Minutes," and "Nightline." Dr. Breggin frequently gives workshops and presentations in North America and Europe

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