Journal of the American Medical Association, 226(9) 1121. To the Editor. THE JOURNAL (225:916, 1973) described me as “Undoubtedly the one person most responsible for politicizing psychosurgery ….” In this and a succeeding article (225:1035, 1973), the writer defends lobotomists and psychosurgeons and promotes their work as pure science unhappily […]
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M/H (Mental Health) 57:10-13. LOBOTOMY and psychosurgery are upon us again! In Philadelphia a black man dies of an overdose of heroin, and a reporter notices peculiar scars on his head. A portion of his brain has been burned out in an experimental attempt to cure his addiction. The neurosurgeon […]
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American Journal of Psychiatry 129:98-99, 1972. A letter alerting the psychiatric community to the upsurge in lobotomy and psychosurgery in the US and worldwide. lobotomies.pbreggin.1972.pdf
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“Lobotomy.” (co-authored by Daniel Greenburg). Science and Government Report, March 15, 1972, Volume II, No. 2, pp 1-4. lobotomy.pbreggin.1972.pdf
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Breggin, PR. (1971). Psychiatry 34:59-75, 1971. Values and the modification of values are at the heart of psychotherapy. psychotherapyas.pbreggin.1971.pdf
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“The Sedative-Like Effect of Epinephrine,” Arch Gen Psych Vol 12 (1965). Recent findings have created the need for a review of the literature concerning epinephrine-induced behavioral depression and for an evaluation of the possible mechanisms and clinical implications. sedativelike.pbreggin.1965.pdf
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Archives of General Psychiatry 12:255-259, 1965. sedativelike.pbreggin.1965.pdf
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Breggin, PR. (1964). Archives of General Psychiatry, 10, 173-181. Breggin1964_CoercionOfVolPatients.pdf
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Journal of Nervous Mental Diseases 139:558-568, 1964. A review of the medical literature detailing the role of adrenaline in anxiety. thepsychophysiology.pbreggin.1964.pdf
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