My guest Michael Cornwall PhD explores how 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. originally aired 05/07/12 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.4MB) | Embed
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My guests are wife and husband Geri Carter and Tim Evans, both Adlerian psychologists and family therapists. After celebrating our great empathic therapies conference 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. Podcast: …
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My guest Thomas Fewer is a New Orleans counselor who has spoken out against the diagnosing and drugging of children. We talk about offering meaningful therapy for adults from an existential, spiritual, and depth perspective. May other therapists be inspired to speak out and to practice according to what they know is right. Podcast: Play in …
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Lebron James, Tiger Woods and one-fifth of high school boys now labeled ADHD. Tie it all together with me and sports trainer Dr. Chris Stankovich in a wide-ranging discussion of sports, emotional crackups, broken bones, and life. Wow! And don’t forget our Empathic Therapy Conference April 26-28 in Syracuse (www.empathictherapy.org). …
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My guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD exemplies and lives what it means to be a therapist. Working with 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. Meet Gayle and learn about many frontier …
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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 and right are turning to psychiatry as means for controlling violence. Listen, learn and then link to my …
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My guest is Aletha Solter, PhD and her book is Attachment Play. It’s so much fun, I read parts of it on the air. Play your way to your child’s heart. It works better than punishment and harsh words. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download …
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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 …
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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! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.4MB) …
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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 physical and psychological problems. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.6MB) | Embed
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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. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.3MB) | Embed
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My guest Gina Nikkel, PhD is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. It is the most interesting, creative and important foundation in the entire field of mental health. She and I talk about its many pioneering projects, including the Mother Bear Community Action Network, a family support …
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Psychiatry Has No Answer to Gun Massacres By Peter R. Breggin, MD December 21, 2012 The Newtown tragedy has sent us searching for answers to mass killings. There are many important questions to be addressed, such as “Is tighter gun control feasible and consistent with the Second Amendment?”, “Can we …
My guest, Bob Nikkel, former director of mental health and addictions for the State of Oregon, talks with me about innovative approaches to serious mental health problems including family interventions for early psychosis and dual diagnosis twelve step programs that actually succeed in helping recovery. Related articles The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – …
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I present the hazards of so-called antipsychotic drugs including Zyprexa, Risperdal, Abilify, Seroquel, Geodon and Invega. Learn about their disastrous and even fatal effects, and their lack of efficacy. Learn about tardive dyskinesia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and the metabolic syndrome. And discover that there are far better empathic approaches to helping people who are deeply …
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