Psychiatric medications Books by Dr. Breggin on psychiatric drugs: Nearly all of Dr. Breggin’s books deal with psychiatric medications. They attempt to demonstrate that these psychoactive substances too often do more harm than good and that better alternatives are available. At the same time, they provide critical evaluations of contemporary […]
Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2001). A tribute to Dr. Steve Baldwin, who believed wholeheartedly in speaking up for vulnerable persons exposed to the hazards of biological psychiatry. tributestevebaldwin.pbreggin.2001.pdf
An excerpt from Dr. Breggin’s book, Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons, outlining his philosophy that mental illnesses should be treated from a pyschological and social perspective rather than a biological one. spearheadingatransformation.pbreggin.1996.pdf
A very brief summary of Dr. Breggin’s CV. resume.pdf
“Psychotherapy in Emotional Crises without Resort to Psychiatric Medications,” The Humanistic Psychologist Vol 25 No 1 (1997). Mental health professionals are pressured to rely upon the medical model, but there are many reasons not to turn to psychiatric drugs in emotional crises, including their impact on the brain and mind, […]
“Psychiatry and Psychotherapy as Political Processes,” American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1975. A therapist’s every action reflects his own attitudes toward political issues: Therapy is applied politics. psychiatryas.pbreggin.pdf
The first ‘Politics, Practice and Breaking News’ column in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 8 No. 1, Spring 2006., touching on tardive dyskinesia. politicspractice.pbreggin.2006.pdf
“Iatrogenic helplessness in authoritarian psychiatry,” The Iatrogenics Handbook. Robert Morgan, ed. IPI Publishing, Toronto, Canada 1983. To the extent that psychiatry promotes its own moral and political authority, it also promotes helplessness and fear in patients and the public. iatrogenic.pbreggin.1983.pdf
Selected chapters from Dr. Breggin’s 1997 book The Heart of Being Helpful, laying out Breggin’s empathy-based approach to therapy. heartofbeinghelpful.ch1.8.9.pbreggin.1997.pdf
Social workers, and their human bonds with their patients, are the answer to psychological suffering– not pills. empoweringsocial.pbreggin.2001.pdf
