This section contains a selection of Dr. Breggin’s scientific articles spanning 1964 to the present.
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
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
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
“Lobotomy.” (co-authored by Daniel Greenburg). Science and Government Report, March 15, 1972, Volume II, No. 2, pp 1-4. lobotomy.pbreggin.1972.pdf
Breggin, PR. (1971). Psychiatry 34:59-75, 1971. Values and the modification of values are at the heart of psychotherapy. psychotherapyas.pbreggin.1971.pdf
Archives of General Psychiatry 12:255-259, 1965. sedativelike.pbreggin.1965.pdf
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
