$1.5 Million Awarded in Antipsychotic Caused Tardive Dyskinesia Legal Case
Huffington Post – March 3, 2014 By Peter Breggin On Feb. 11, 2014, a Chicago jury awarded $1.5 million to an autistic child who developed…
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Dr. Breggin rides again: the dangers of psychiatric drugs
Jon Rappoport’s Blog February 24, 2014 By Jon Rappoport In court, the tide may be turning against psychiatric-drug damage. A recent jury decision, in which…
Making a Market in Antipsychotic Drugs: An Ironic Tragedy
Remember not so long ago when Prozac became the world’s largest selling medication of any kind, and then for years how Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft took over many of the top 10 spots? Remember the explanations at the time–that they were wonder drugs and that 15-50 percent or more of Americans would need them some time in their lives? To many people this seemed like a scientific breakthrough when in reality it was … a triumph of marketing.
Psychiatrist Peter Breggin: The Study of Empathic Therapy—Human Connection versus Psychiatric Control
I am best known from my critiques of biological, mechanistic psychiatry with its cookie-cutter diagnoses and brain-disabling drugs and shock treatment. Establishment and institutional psychiatry can be like a dark shadow that crowds out the light. Even as we grow in awareness of the harm perpetrated by biological psychiatry, we need more focus on the light — on the life-giving principles that have moved me and so many others to take up the cause of reform in psychiatry and psychotherapy. These underlying principles try to capture what is good and important in human relationships beginning with empathy, love and respect for each individual’s unique life.
Just a great article: The Huffington Post—A Psychiatric Drug Story of Tragedy and Triumph by Dr. Peter Breggin
Today I am reproducing for my readers a letter that we recently received from a woman I will call “Janice.” My wife Ginger reads and responds to most of the many communications that come to us each day through email and the networking sites she has joined. Several times a week we will get a communication that tells us that our reform work “saved my life.”