This section contains a selection of Dr. Breggin’s scientific articles spanning 1964 to the present.
Breggin, PR. (1988-89). Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 21:(Nos. 1-3)97-123, 1988-89. Dr. Breggin’s Three Dynamics Theory presents a value system for understanding human progress. The system can be applied to assessing the progress or development of individual persons or small groups, larger organizations, and society. It attempts to unify […]
Voices (Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists) 23:32-42, Summer, 1987. preciousthecrow.pbreggin.1987.pdf
Psychopharmacology Bulletin 22:476-479, 1986. Because ECT always produces an organic brain syndrome, the proper question, Breggin states, is not “Does ECT cause braind damage and dsyfunction?” but rather “How complete is recovery from this trauma?” neuropathologyand.pbreggin.1986.pdf
Electroconvulsive Therapy, Consensus Development Conference, NIMH, June 10-12. ECT always produces some degree of immediate brain damage and mental dysfunction, and frequently the patient never fully recovers. Permanent brain damage from ECT is demonstrated through clinical evaluations, psychological tests, EEG studies, CAT scans, human autopsy studies, and research on the […]
Behavior and Brain Sciences 7:24-25, 1984. electroshocktherapy.pbreggin.1984.pdf
In Morgan RF (ed): The Iatrogenics Handbook. Toronto, IPI Publishing Company, 39-51, 1983. iatrogenic.pbreggin.1983.pdf
American Journal of Psychiatry, 140:1101, 1983. (Letter) Dr. Breggin protests the publication of pieces promoting lobotomy. whatcost.pbreggin.1983.pdf
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
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 […]
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
