#388: When Psychiatry Went Crazy with Dr. Peter Breggin, MD

To Watch The Full Uncensored Version Visit The True North Movement https://www.patrickcoffin.media/the-true-north-movement/ Dr Peter Breggin has been a practicing psychiatrist, author, and legal expert for over 50 years.  he is known as “the conscience of psychiatry” for his tireless work in opposing interventions such as electroshock therapy and the widespread use of psychotropic drugs to treat suffering people.  Breggin has both bitter enemies and strong supporters among his fellow psychiatrists. Groundbreaking work in helping patients wean themselves off medications has made him highly sought after and respected. At age 89, Breggin is going strong, seeing patients, interviewing and being interviewed, and speaking out about medical malfeasance on his weekly radio show, “The Peter Breggin Show.” In this episode: How the psychiatric industry, in bed with Big Pharma, has changed since the 1950s. What drew Dr. Breggin to psychiatry  The real dangers of SSRIs and other antidepressive and anti-anxiety drugs on the brain  The true definition of depression and how to resolve it How the diagnostic and statistical manual is written and used to justify the sale of neurotoxic drugs that promise recovery but that all come with bad side effects The providential ways that Breggin's research and advocacy prepared him to fight the global COVID crisis Resources mentioned in this episode: The website of Peter Breggin, MD: www.breggin.com The substack of Peter and his wife Ginger Breggin: https://substack.com/@gingerbreggin COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey by Peter and Ginger Breggin https://amzn.to/3wpoThY