What cost leukotomy? (1983)
American Journal of Psychiatry, 140:1101, 1983. (Letter) Dr. Breggin protests the publication of pieces promoting lobotomy. whatcost.pbreggin.1983.pdf
Coercion of voluntary patients in an open hospital (1982)
Breggin, PR. (1982). Archives of General Psychiatry 10:173-181, 1964. Reprinted with a new introduction in Edwards, R.B. (ed): Psychiatry and Ethics. Prometheus Books, 1982, and in Edwards, R.B. (ed): Ethics and Psychiatry. Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 1997. coercionof.pbreggin.1982.pdf
The return of lobotomy and psychosurgery (1982)
Reprinted with a new introduction in Edwards RB (ed): Psychiatry and Ethics. Buffalo, Prometheus Books, 1982. Originally published in the Congressional Record , February 24, 1972, E1602-E1612. First reprinted in Quality of Health Care-Human Experimentation: Hearings Before Senator Edward Kennedy’s Subcommittee on Health, US Senate, Washington, D.C., US Government Printing […]
Disabling the brain with electroshock (1981)
Divergent Views in Psychiatry, M. Dongier and E. Wittkower, editors. Harper and Row, Hagerstown, MD, 247-271, 1981. Examines the relation between the “therapeutic” effects of electroshock and the damage it does to the brain. disablingthe.pbreggin.1981.pdf
Psychosurgery as brain-disabling therapy (1981)
Divergent Views in Psychiatry, M. Dongier and E. Wittkower, editors. Harper and Row, Hagerstown, MD, 302-326, 1981. Many psychiatric authorities have condoned pyschosurgery precisely because the very principles that find their most extreme expression in lobotomy also find more subtle expression in all the major somatic treatments in psychiatry. psychosurgeryas.pbreggin.1981.pdf
Brain-Disabling Therapies (1980)
Chapter 23 in Valenstein E (ed): The Psychosurgery Debate. San Francisco, WH Freeman, 1980. An overview of the risks of electroshock therapy, pyschosurgery, and psychiatric drugs. braindisabling.pbreggin.1980.pdf
Shock Treatment III: Resistance in the 1980s (1979, reprint)
A chapter from Dr. Breggin’s 1979 book, Electroshock: Its Brain-Disabling Effects, republisehd as “Shock Treatment III: Resistance in the 1980’s.” In Electroshock: The Case Against, Dr. Robert F. Morgan, editor. Morgan Foundation Publishers, Fair Oaks, CA. pp. 43-56. 1999. shocktreatmentIII.pbreggin.1979.pdf
Psychosurgery for the control of violence: a critical review (1975)
Breggin, PR. (1975). In W. Fields & W. Sweet (Eds.), Neural basis of violence and aggression (pp.350-391). St Louis: Warren H. Green. Lobotomy and psychosurgery being used as on patients with neither brain disease nor epilepsy. psychosurgeryfor.pbreggin.1975.pdf
Psychosurgery for political purposes (1975)
Duquesne Law Review 13:841-862, 1975. Several of the nation’s leading psychosurgeons have persistently linked their work to the control of urban violence, ghetto disorders and political dissent. psychosurguryforpolitical.pbreggin.1975.pdf
The Second Wave (1973)
We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence in lobotomy and psychosurgery. secondwave.pbreggin.1973.pdf
