The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - A Shift of Mind - 05/22/13
Mel Schwartz, a therapist, and for me a brilliant philosopher of science and psychology, brings Emergent Thinking to everything from how we envisionthe physical universe to how wecan improve our lives and ourmarriages. Good listening; good stuff.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - The Meaning of Dreams -...
Kelly Bulkeley, PhD provides a window into our dreamsand their relationship to empathy, personal growth and psychosis. Very enlightening. Formy brief intro, I respond to the escape of three Cleveland women from sexual slavery and suggest a “National Day of Male Atonement.”
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 05/01/13
My guests are wife and husband Geri Carter and Tim Evans, bothAdlerian psychologists and family therapists. After celebrating our great empathic therapiesconference this past weekend, we spend most of the show talking about the importance of relationship and how to make a good marriage the center of our lives.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/24/13
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/17/13
My guest Thomas Fewer is a New Orleans counselor who has spoken out against the diagnosing and drugging of children. We talk aboutoffering meaningful therapy for adults from an existential, spiritual,and depth perspective.Mayother therapistsbe inspired to speak out and to practiceaccording to what they know is right.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 04/10/13
Mike and Hope Bundrant represent, in my judgment, the real future of “mental health services.”Working outside the system, they focus on delivering genuine help.A lively sharing about self-sabotage and finding the freedom to love.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - ADHD - 04/03/13
Lebron James, Tiger Woods and one-fifth of high school boys now labeled ADHD. Tie it all together with me andsports trainer Dr. Chris Stankovich in a wide-ranging discussion of sports, emotional crackups, broken bones, and life. Wow! And don’t forgetour Empathic Therapy Conference April 26-28 in Syracuse (www.empathictherapy.org).
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/27/13
My guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD exemplies and lives what it means to be a therapist. Workingwith returning combat soldiers and their families, she describes the impact of war on everyone who is touched by it, and devotes herself to providing thoughtful, caring,and innovative services. MeetGayle and learn about many frontier empathic therapiesat ourupcoming conference April [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/20/13
BAM! The fed’s billion dollar Brain Activity Mapping project. Neuroscience at its best?Listen to my highly informed guest Jon Rappoport as we talk about psychiatry in the service of social control. The political left andright are turning to psychiatry as means for controlling violence. Listen, learn andthen link to my latest blog, “Never Again!” http://www.naturalnews.com/039560_psychiatry_real_history_school_shootings.html
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/13/13
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Tony’s Story - 03/06/13
This is the most difficult and most heartfelt radio interview I have ever conducted. I talk with the surviving wife and the surviving mother of Tony Orban, an outstanding soldier and police officer driven to tragic violence and then to suicide by the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline).As Tony’s medical expert I grew to know and to [...]
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Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Crazy Like Us - 12/12/12
My guest Ethan Watters is the author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. This is a don’t-miss show, filled with insights and new information about the invasiveness of Western psychiatric diagnoses and drugs, as well about what other cultures have to teach us. A really interesting conversation between the two of [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02/20/13
My guest Bob Moylan, LCPC triumphed over a very challenging childhood–12 siblings, poverty,and an alcoholic father–to become a student, an athlete and an counselor with fresh and interesting ideas about therapy and life.We have an enjoyable and inspiring time together. Join us!
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02/13/13
My guest is Ninu-Alexandri Quirk, MD who transformed her ordinary medical practice into empathic Holistic Medicine. She offers eye-popping insights into the current practice of medicine and describes the latest holistic medical approaches to physicaland psychologicalproblems.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02/06/13
My guest is Robert K. Ferrie, MD, from the Toronto area. He’s a medical doctor who became an empathic psychotherapist specializing in trauma. A lively discussion with some friendly debate about EMDR and also orthomolecular psychiatry which he utilizes for drug withdrawal.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 01/30/13
Dr. Dathan Paterno, a very wise Chicago-area psychologist, talks with meabout children and family life, his books, and his clinic that serves children and families. This is a very educational show about both therapy and life.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 01/23/13
My guest is Boston/Cambridge area psychologist Frank McNamara. Therapists can learn how to enjoy their work and to do the most possible good without resort to psychiatric drugs.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 01/16/13
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - A Top Drug Safety...
My guest Thomas J. Moore is a premier researcher indrug safety. From NSAIDs to psychiatric drugs, hesharpens our ability to evaluate drug research and alerts us todangers, including his cutting edgestudiesofviolence caused by prescription drugs.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - In school trenches -...
My guest Michael Gilbert, PhD labors the trenches ofurban schools. He has insights on many levels from helping individual students to how the school system is failing.And did you know, its our poverty schoolsthat drag down our international educationalratings? Learn more by listening…
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Psychiatry and Mass...
Fear of gun massacres has led to calls for more psychiatric power over people, including involuntary treatment and a national mental patient registry. My Guest is attorney Jim Gottstein, a pioneer in patient rights. Learn about the menace to everyone from giving more power to psychiatry.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Raising Good Kids - 12/19/12
My guest, Carolyn Crowder PhD, is an extremely skilled educator who specializes in helping parents to respectfully raise empathic, caring children. This is a very good show for anyone interested in children and family life.
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Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Cutting Edge Neuroscience -...
Dr. Bruce Perry, neuroscientist and child psychiatrist, coauthor of Born to Love and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, presents the latest science onthe interface between brain biology, empathy, and the provision of genuine help. A unique and very informative discussion.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Robert Neimeyer - 12/05/12
Robert Neimeyer, PhD, an expert in grief and bereavement, shares profound insights with me on the natureof loss and how to integrate it into our emotional and spiritual lives. This moving hour is about life itself.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Innovative Approaches to...
My guest, Bob Nikkel,former director of mental health and addictions for the State of Oregon, talks with me about innovative approaches toserious mental health problems includingfamily interventions for early psychosis and dual diagnosis twelve step programs that actually succeed in helping recovery.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Walter E. Jacobson MD -...
My guest is Los Angelespsychiatrist Walter E. Jacobson MD, author of Forgive to Win!, who shares his remarkable journey to his current positive spiritual approach to life and to therapy. Inspiring for Thanksgiving 2012!
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Reform Work Part I -...
This hour is Part I on the history of my reform work, with emphasis on lessons for the present time. I take the listener through my work as a college volunteer, then medical school and psychiatric residency, showing the dramatic transformation from a profession with a psychosocial wing to a profession that pushes nothing but [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Antidepressants & Pregnancy...
A landmark in medicine show.My guestObGyn Adam Urato, MD describes the enormous risks of taking antidepressants when pregnant or nursing,and the broader implications for taking them at all. Probably the most informative discussion ever available.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Almighty Doctor - 08/27/12
Let’s bring an end to “medication compliance” and the Almighty Doctor. We need a whole new approach to emotional well-being. Based on my new book, “Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal,” I advocate for the empowerment of therapists, patients, and families in a person-centered team effort. The focus is on drug withdrawal, but the overall approach [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Alan Cassells - 08/20/12
Researcher Alan Cassells, author of Seeking Sickness,looks atdangeous myths behind screening for and treating hypertension, high cholesterol, and prostate cancer, as well as mammograms and bone density studies for women. Get this info before you take or respond to another screening test. Every adult should listen to this show and pass it on to others. [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Craig Wiener - 08/13/12
My guest Craig Wiener, PhD and I talk about ADHD-like behaviors, their sources, and how to help change them through changingspecific parent-child interactions. A practical, useful, and insightful hour for therapists, teachers, and parents; and evenforolder children andadults who think they have “ADHD.”
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Jason Hartman - 08/06/12
My guest Jason Hartman and I range over topics from how the FDA protects drug companies to how to live and to invest in an unsafe world. With entrepreneurial spirit, he also eloquently critiques psychiatric drug use. Stimulating.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Stephen Madigan - 07/30/12
Are personal responsibility and free will mirages? Is there a better “post-modern” approach to therapy? My guest Stephen Madigan and I express opposing views on how to empower people.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Lisbeth Cooper - 07/23/12
My guest is Lisbeth Cooper founder of the Mother Bear Community Action Network and the visionary behind the CooperRiis Healing Community. Hope and an expectation of recovery are the guiding lights for this shining star in the reform movement.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Chrisanne Gordon - 07/16/12
Can recovery from head injurylead to greater emotional and spiritual awareness and well being? Myguest Chrisanne Gordon, MD who recovered from head injury shares enlightening experiences about personal transformation followingphysical and emotional trauma. Avery special hour!
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 07/09/12
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 07/02/12
My guest Kevin Solomons MD isa British Columbia psychiatrist who became disappointed with medication outcomes and began listening towhyhis patients felt so bad about themselves. Explore with us the originsof low self-esteem and the path to a better life.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/25/12
Wanted: A self-help and peer approach to “Mental Health Recovery” that can be done by yourself or with peers, and that focuses on building your own positive personal strategies for daily growth and overcoming stress and trauma. My guest Mary Ellen Copeland PhD describes the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP).
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/18/12
In this hour, I sharewhat I’ve learned about how to live a good life. I put my heart and soul into thisin the hopeit may inspire you in your life.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/11/12
I really like this hour. My guests Katherine Douthit, PhD, LMHC and Tom Christiansen, LMHC work withelderly anddementia patients. I start out withwhat it’s like for me to be 76 years old and we go on from there to talk about older personsfrom multiple perspectives including agistprejudices, and their needs for autonomy and love.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 06/04/12
My guest is journalist Robert Whitaker, the author of Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is a landmark interview about the present and future of psychiatric reform.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest Tom Garcia and I range over a variety of interesting topics from Aldlerian psychology tothe treatment of addiction. The theme:emotional distress arises from our failures to develop fulfilling human relationships.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
So you think you can’t make a difference? My guest Orly Wahba is a young teacher who made a YouTube video seen by 5 million people. Learn how she’s spreading kindness and empowering people through her organization “Life Vest Inside.”
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest Michael Cornwall PhD exploreshow to help people labeled schizophrenic with empathy and without resort to drugs. Michael has vast personal experience and profound understanding. A “must listen to” show for anyone concerned about madness, its nature, and its healing.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - repeat program - 03/07/11
This show originally aired on March 7, 2011. Howard Glasser is not only a great guest–his goal is to bring out the greatness in you! Howie applies his Nurtured Heart Approach to helping individuals, training professionals, transforming schools and even enhancing communities. This hour with me and Howardcould inspire and guide youto find amore positive [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Fresh from our marvelous 2012 Empathic Therapy Conference, two new friends join me: Diederik Wolsak who runs the Choose Again Attitudinal Empathic Healing Center in Costa Rica and Tony Coates, a psychiatrist from New Zealand. A conversation that goes deeply into the nature of healing.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest Gerald Porter, PhD has a broad and wonderful vision of psychology and psychotherapy. We focus in part on psychiatric diagnosis vs. a genuine understanding of a person’s life.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest Mathy Downing lost her 12 year old daughter to antidepressant-induced suicide. I was a medical expert in her case. Mathy’s story exemplifies how to rise from tragedy and how much can be accomplished by one goodhearted well motivated person.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Good stuff to listen to. My guest Tim Evans is an Adlerian psychologist. Reading Adler helped me understand empathic relationships in therapy and in life. Talking with Tim is very grounding and positive. Join us.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Maybe the best discussion ever about overcoming depression without resort to drugs. My guest Dr. John Snyder is a therapist and author with a marvelous approach to depression.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 03/12/12
Please listen to this show and learn about empathic peer support, a nonprofessional approach that steps wholly outside the psychiatric model, and delivers a caring human service to people in need.My guest, Australian psychologist Tony Gee, will explain how to do it.Then implement it in your own community and help to change the world.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Today’s show is “First Monday of the Month Open Mike,” when I focus on callers. I chat with a man whose “manic episodes” inspire him to deeper understandings, and with a woman whose five year old son was badly damaged by antipsychotic drugs. My friend Doug Bower describes last weekend’s Person-Centered Conference in Georgia and [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest is Alison Bass, author of Side Effects, and a genuine investigative journalist. A very informed discussion of what I call the Psychopharmaceutical Complex. Hear how bad it is, and some differing possible solutions offered by me and Alison. Many new information and insights into the rigging of psychopharmaceutical research and marketing.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Callers from across the country stimulate interesting conversation about psychiatric drug withdrawal, handling anxiety, and the merits (or not) of Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP) and EMDR, not to mention tumeric. We can talk together, you and me, every first Monday of the month. Next it’s Monday, March 5, at 5 pm @ 888 874 4888.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
What’s it like for you as a teenager confined to a residential treatment center? What have you been through? What do you feel about your family? Your therapist? The drugs you are forced to take? My guest, Robert Foltz PsyD from Chicago, really cares about what these youngsters have to say. You will learn from [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest Anne Woodlen spent a total of 3 years incarcerated in various mental hospitals and has since then devoted herself to psychiatric reform. She’s a vivid, cogent and uplifting critic of psychiatric power and its terrible effects upon herself and others.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Guest: Dr. Bart Billings, PhD My guest is Bart Billings, PhD.I call him “The Conscience of Military Psychology and Psychiatry.”Learn how psychiatric drugs are inundating the military with soldiers on dangerous missions overdosed on meds.Bart describes approaches that really help soldiers before and after combat to deal with their normal and inevitable reactions to wartime trauma.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
It’s the day after Christmas and the New Year is upon us. My guest Dr. Gerald Porter and I discuss how to move our lives forward in in the coming New Year. Become the open-hearted, loving and yet strong person you’ve always wanted to be. It works! Then call in with your questions and [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Today was my first “Open Mic Monday.” A great success, I look forward to taking your calls the first Monday of every month. Put it in your calendar. In addition to important questions, callers shared inspiring stories of personal recovery after stopping psychiatry drugs including one mother who successfully tapered her 9 year old from [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Guest: Sarton Weinraub Are you a victim of medical authoritarianism? My guest is Manhattan clinical psychologist Sarton Weinraub. He describes how he empowers patients to take control over their lives and their medical care, including how to manage their withdrawal from psychiatric medication. Empowering to clients and professionals alike.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My marvelous guest Dr. Tim Scott is a former minister, a psychotherapist, a retired professor of psychology, an entrepreneur, scientist, author of a very solid scientific critique of psychiatric drugs, and a man who believes that values derive from God and should be a part of therapy and a purposeful life. He will challenge some, [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
The best discussion ever about ADHD, psychiatric drugs, and what children really need. My guest Martin Whitely has made Western Australia the only place on Earth where fewer children each year are diagnosed and drugged. He shares the latest worldwide information. Please listen and pass it on.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Is what I’ve been teaching about emotional suffering also true about chronic physical pain? Do chronic pain patients need help withdrawing from pain meds and facing emotional issues? My guest Ross Halpern, PhD offers breakthrough insights and solutions that really work.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
You’re five years old, your mother dies, and you and your siblings are scattered into the Foster Care System of New York City. My guest Dr. Nathaniel J. Williams tells us how to make the best possible life–regardless of how our lives got started.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Two new legal cases provide encouraging news for psychiatric reform and patient care. In one case a Manitoba judge has rendered an opinion confirming my testimony and my written report to the court that Prozac drove a sixteen-year-old boy tostab a friend to death. That’s the first time a judge in North America has determined [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Imagine that your former husband so desperately wants to kill you, and to get away with it, that he acts like a terrorist. Shooting from long range, he kills nearly a dozen people during October 2002 to distract attention from himself as a suspect when he kills you in the same way. The [...]
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
My guest, Allison Wilder PhD, is a professor of recreational therapy. Does that sound fluffy to you? Not so. Dr. Wilder’s approach epitomizes what’s good in any and all therapeutic approaches. Learn about this new field–and the essence of all good human services.
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour
Whether you are a therapist, a client, or a person outside the mental health system–my guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD is worth your time and attention. Gayle and her husband Barry, a psychiatrist, run a stress management and therapy center in Savannah, Georgia. Her compassionate, carefully thought out approach to understanding and handling stress, [...]
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