When she was twenty-one years old in 1982, Sylvia became anxious and depressed over events in her life. Her internist at the time placed her on Triavil, a combination of the neuroleptic perphenazine (Trilafon) and the antidepressant amitriptyline (Elavil). Although most of her symptoms of anxiety cleared up over the […]
Peter R. Breggin M.D. testified in case On June 10, 2002, a jury unanimously found the Cleveland Clinic negligent in causing permanent, disabling brain damage to a woman by performing experimental psychosurgery on her without informed consent. Psychosurgery is the destruction of normal brain tissue for the purpose of treating […]
The following material is excerpted and revised from Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. (Springer Publishing Co. 1997, 2008). Presented here with the permission of Springer Publishing Company, 536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012-3955. Review of Behavioral Effects of Benzodiazepines With an Appendix on Drawing Scientific Conclusions […]
In Genes We Trust: When Science Bows to Racism by BARRY MEHLER E-mail the author at: [email protected] published in Reform Judaism (Winter 1994) pp. 10-14; 77-79. Revised and republished The Public Eye (March 1995); RaceFile 3 #3 (May-June 1995), pp. 53-54; Networking: A Publication of the Fight The Right Network […]
(Reprinted with permission of the Times Union of Albany, New York) Ritalin use splits parents, school By RICK KARLIN , Staff writer Times Union, Albany, NY Sunday, May 7, 2000 Berne — District marks parents as alleged child abusers for wanting to take their 7-year-old son off the medication Like […]
Peter R. Breggin M.D. Testimony September 29, 2000 Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives I appear today as Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP), and also on my own behalf as a […]
