Peter R Breggin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2267194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R Breggin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | Breggin |
| SIGNATURE | BREGGIN P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Postgraduate Center for Mental Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychological helplessness and feeling undeserving of love
Extreme Psychospiritual States Versus Organic Brain Disease
Extreme states can be psychospiritual and “functional” in origin or they can be “organic” and driven by biological dysfunction. Contemporary psychiatry largely rejects this distinction, preferring to insist that everything “extreme” is biological in origin; but the distinction is important for understanding and helping people. Psychospiritual crises, including those labeled bipolar or schizophrenic, are “functional” and express meaning. As “bizar…
Understanding and helping people with hallucinations based on the theory of negative legacy emotions
This article applies the new concept of negative legacy emotions to understanding and helping people suffering with psychosis and hallucinations. The theory of negative legacy emotions proposes that guilt, shame, and anxiety result from biological evolution, specifically to inhibit human self-assertion, willfulness, and aggression in personal and family relationships. Because human beings are so violent, the species would have destroyed itself if…
The Rights of Children and Parents In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs
Based on the author's extensive clinical, forensic and research experience, this article addresses the scientific and moral question of whether it is ever in the best interests of a child to be given a psychiatric drug. The focus is on the diagnosis Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD ) and stimulant drugs, and on the diagnosis Bipolar Disorder and antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs. The conclusion is that we should work towards a proh…
The Utmost Discretion
This article examines the controversial and largely publicly undocumented practice of administering electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT or electroshock) to children who are undergoing psychiatric treatment. Conventional psychiatric beliefs and practices are challenged, along with a presentation of the history of scientific research which questions electroshock's ‘effectiveness’ and outlines its brain‐damaging and incapacitating effects. As such, we p…
Psychopharmacology And Human Values
Psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry now dominate the mental health field. Even humanistic and existential therapists are likely to refer difficult or disturbed clients to physicians, especially psychiatrists, for possible medication. The prevailing professional tendency is to conceptualize the conflict between psychotherapy and drug treatment as a scientific one; but it is at root a conflict between two different views of human nature. W…
Empathic self-transformation and love in individual and family therapy
Empathie self‐transformation and a healing presence are key to successful therapy. Empathy, the willingness and ability to understand and care about the suffering of another person, requires a loving attitude. Love, in this context, is defined as joyful awareness, accompanied by a desire to nurture and to treasure. Empathie self‐transformation is a process of overcoming our personal barriers to feeling empathy and love for our client. Healing pre…
Psychotherapy in emotional crises without resort to psychiatric medications
Mental health professionals are being pressured to rely upon the medical model, including psychiatric diagnosis and medication. But there are many reasons not to turn to psychiatric drugs in emotional crises, including their impact on the brain and mind, and their disempowering effect on the morale of clients and therapists alike. Meanwhile, there are sound, empathic psychotherapy principles for helping clients in severe, acute distress. This art…
Campaigns against racist federal programs by the center for the study of psychiatry and psychology
Can Ms. Prozac Talk Back? Feminism, Drugs, and Social Constructionism
Psychiatry's aid to cruelty
Can Ms. Prozac Talk Back? Feminism, Drugs, and Social Constructionism
Campaigns against racist federal programs by the center for the study of psychiatry and psychology
Psychopharmacology And Human Values
Psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry now dominate the mental health field. Even humanistic and existential therapists are likely to refer difficult or disturbed clients to physicians, especially psychiatrists, for possible medication. The prevailing professional tendency is to conceptualize the conflict between psychotherapy and drug treatment as a scientific one; but it is at root a conflict between two different views of human nature. W…
Psychiatry's aid to cruelty
Campaigns against racist federal programs by the center for the study of psychiatry and psychology
Can Ms. Prozac Talk Back? Feminism, Drugs, and Social Constructionism
Psychotherapy in emotional crises without resort to psychiatric medications
Mental health professionals are being pressured to rely upon the medical model, including psychiatric diagnosis and medication. But there are many reasons not to turn to psychiatric drugs in emotional crises, including their impact on the brain and mind, and their disempowering effect on the morale of clients and therapists alike. Meanwhile, there are sound, empathic psychotherapy principles for helping clients in severe, acute distress. This art…
Empathic self-transformation and love in individual and family therapy
Empathie self‐transformation and a healing presence are key to successful therapy. Empathy, the willingness and ability to understand and care about the suffering of another person, requires a loving attitude. Love, in this context, is defined as joyful awareness, accompanied by a desire to nurture and to treasure. Empathie self‐transformation is a process of overcoming our personal barriers to feeling empathy and love for our client. Healing pre…
Psychopharmacology And Human Values
Psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry now dominate the mental health field. Even humanistic and existential therapists are likely to refer difficult or disturbed clients to physicians, especially psychiatrists, for possible medication. The prevailing professional tendency is to conceptualize the conflict between psychotherapy and drug treatment as a scientific one; but it is at root a conflict between two different views of human nature. W…
The Rights of Children and Parents In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs
Based on the author's extensive clinical, forensic and research experience, this article addresses the scientific and moral question of whether it is ever in the best interests of a child to be given a psychiatric drug. The focus is on the diagnosis Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD ) and stimulant drugs, and on the diagnosis Bipolar Disorder and antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs. The conclusion is that we should work towards a proh…
The Utmost Discretion
This article examines the controversial and largely publicly undocumented practice of administering electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT or electroshock) to children who are undergoing psychiatric treatment. Conventional psychiatric beliefs and practices are challenged, along with a presentation of the history of scientific research which questions electroshock's ‘effectiveness’ and outlines its brain‐damaging and incapacitating effects. As such, we p…
Understanding and helping people with hallucinations based on the theory of negative legacy emotions
This article applies the new concept of negative legacy emotions to understanding and helping people suffering with psychosis and hallucinations. The theory of negative legacy emotions proposes that guilt, shame, and anxiety result from biological evolution, specifically to inhibit human self-assertion, willfulness, and aggression in personal and family relationships. Because human beings are so violent, the species would have destroyed itself if…
Extreme Psychospiritual States Versus Organic Brain Disease
Extreme states can be psychospiritual and “functional” in origin or they can be “organic” and driven by biological dysfunction. Contemporary psychiatry largely rejects this distinction, preferring to insist that everything “extreme” is biological in origin; but the distinction is important for understanding and helping people. Psychospiritual crises, including those labeled bipolar or schizophrenic, are “functional” and express meaning. As “bizar…
Psychological helplessness and feeling undeserving of love
Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works)