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Dr. Peter Breggin

The President’s Sleeping Pill and Its Makers

The New York Times, Feb 10, 1992, page 24. To the Editor: “Implants and Halcion: the Shadow” (editorial, Jan. 24) points out that the Food and Drug Administration depends on information submitted by drug companies in the new drug approval process. You do not make fully clear, however, that the […]

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Contribution to the Social Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill (1962)

The volunteer-patient relationships described in this paper occur between college students and mental patients on the back wards of a large state hospital. […] I think the so-called “dementia” and “hebephrenia” often described as the natural end points of schizophrenia are really products of social isolation on the back wards of state mental hospitals.

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