Peter Breggin Interview Peter Breggin, M.D., has written 20 books, been on 20-20, 60 minutes.Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical companies teamed up to claim that every ..... had biological basis and drug...Worked with ending lobotomy... most were done on women. medication spellbinding;; when somebody's brain is .... one of first things to be impaired is judgment as to the effect on the intrusion. All the drugs the impair the a

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Peter Breggin Interview
Peter Breggin, M.D., has written 20 books, been on 20-20, 60 minutes.

Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical companies teamed up to claim that every ..... had biological basis and drug...

Worked with ending lobotomy... most were done on women.

medication spellbinding;; when somebody's brain is .... one of first things to be impaired is judgment as to the effect on the intrusion.

All the drugs the impair the ability to judge what is happening. People who don't even know the need defending. Children... are always at the mercies of the medications.

risk of psychiatric medications to African American children==
Book  war against the children of color-- about program we discovered that was going to be legislation in congress to organize all federal agencies concerned with mental health-- in order to evaluate the genetic and biological causes of inner city violence. Frederick Goodwin, at time umbrella guy in charge of all mental health agencies-- in speech, compared inner city children to rehsus monkeys that just want to kill each other, have sex and reproduce.

John Conyers got us transcript which disclosed racist remarks and whole program to look for biologic and genetic causes in inner city children.
Our work resulted in cancelling of a big conference on genetics and violence and the resignation of Frederick Goodwin, who was probably, at the time, the most powerful psychiatrist in the world.

Basis I start from, I work from a very, very scientific basis...

The politics I come from cuts across the political spectrum.
All volunteer work I don't make any money from the reform work. Support was from the left and right. On the left, from the black caucus, led by John Conyers, and also worked with Ron Dellums, but also on the board was a conservative senator, Steve Simms, and conservatives who felt that lobotomy was immoral-- to tamper with the human brain...

In recent years, dealing with ADHD, the support has been across the board-- Hannity brought me on and Colmes who questioned me. I've gotten support from many people on the left.

The right not to be abused, the importance of not abusing minority groups-- women have been in that category and children have always been .

When i medical school, very unusual for a child to be medicated.
This is really a matter of marketing.
THe whoe concept of ADHD was a marketing strategy for selling drugs-- originally CIBA Geigy. Since hyperactivity was the focus, it was 90% boys. THen they added inattention.

If list of diagnostic manual it's a list of things that require attention of teachers, or... that annoy teachers.

Drugs block spontaneity and increase obsessive behaviors. Talks about this in TALKING BACK TO RITALIN. Drug diminishes and narrows learning, increase of obsessive stuff and over-focusing. None of this is good for the child's brain, learning or development-- child gets terrible message he can't control himself. The main development is independence. We're telling teachers, for a huge number of kids that they have to drug the kids.

How to deal with kids who have been sent home and have been told the child is ADHD, needs medication.

If there's a problem, you may need family counseling.

Help the child identify what he or she loves.
The goal is to get free of doing boring things.

The mothers act-- would make it if not mandatory practically inevitable that after delivery, all mothers would be screened.

It's always about taking responsibility for your own growth and development.

Truly mentally healthy person is....    when we are the most loving we can be in the most areas of our lives and take responsibility for that and I define love as joyful awareness.

It's pretty hard to have a happy life, because we're such social people, without loving other people.

The people with the happiest lives....

involuntary hospitalization, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, hypomanic episode

Paolo Freiri Pedagogy of the oppressed and patients oppressed by Psychiatry, pharma and govt.

Authors Bio:

One theme has run through my work for the past 40 plus years-- a desire to play a role in waking people up, raising their consciousness and empowering them.
I was the organizer founder of the Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology and StoryCon Meetings and president of Futurehealth, Inc., with interests in Positive Psychology as well as being involved in the field of biofeedback/neurofeedback since 1972.
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In 2003 I founded www.OpEdNews.com , where I've written over 1800 articles and have published over 100,000 other people's writings, with the goal of raising people's consciousness in political and activist ways.