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Peter BregginPeter R. Breggin, M.D. began private practice in the field of psychiatry in 1968, and is now in full-time private practice in Bethesda, Maryland, where he treats children, adults and families. Dr. Breggin is most well known as a leading critic of biological psychiatry, and as the author of Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Ritalin, and Talking Back to Prozac. Dr. Breggin is among the world's foremost critics of psychiatric drugs, and an advocate for psychological and social human services. However, Breggin's credentials are questioned by some of his critics, as he as never passed the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination. Though not a requirement in Maryland, certification by this board is attained by most psychiatrists in the US. For over three decades, Dr. Breggin has campaigned against the myriad dangers of psychoactive drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, coercive involuntary treatment, and biological theories of psychiatry. Breggin has scorned the pharmaceutical industry for propagating disinformation, alleging drug companies have built largely fabricated markets by relentlessly spreading a false message that only good can ensue from psychiatric drug treatment. Throughout this period, Dr. Breggin has served as a medical expert in both civil and criminal suits, including individual malpractice cases and product liability litigation against the manufacturers of psychiatric drugs. Dr. Breggin's work provided the scientific basis for the original combined Prozac suits, for the more recent Ritalin class action suits, and for label changes in many psychiatric drugs. He generally opposes the use of psychiatric medication. He picks on side effects to promote his anti-medication agenda. Naturally, during the era of medication free psychiatry, prior to the 1950's, people spent years in asylums, waiting for the spontaneous remission of their episodic symptoms. A good example of the consequence of discontinuation of medication took place in the case of Andrea Yates. . Since 1964 Dr. Breggin has published many peer-reviewed articles and medical books in his subspecialty of clinical psychopharmacology, and has authored dozens of scientific articles and nineteen professional books. Many of his published works deal with psychiatric medication, the FDA and drug approval process, the evaluation of clinical trials, and standards of care in psychiatry and related fields. He has not posted the list of all the lawsuits in which he has testified, in any readily available location, the fees he charges, which suits were won, lost, and various remarks made about him by judges, some quoted by commentators. and . In 1972, Breggin founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP), a nonprofit research and educational network. The Center is dedicated to shedding light upon the impact of mental health theory and practices upon individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values. He also founded the peer-review journal, Ethical Human Sciences and Services. Dr. Breggin's background includes Harvard College, Case Western Reserve Medical School, a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School, a two-year staff appointment to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and a faculty appointment to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Counseling. Breggin has withstood unmerited criticism for alleged links to Scientology, which he has refuted, and for direct quotes from literature he has authored, perhaps most nobably comments pertaining to inevitable childhood sexual inquisitiveness in 'The Psychology of Freedom'. See Also External links Some Notes on ADHD and Peter R. Breggin's Unfair Attack on Ritalin, by Stephen Barrett, M.D. * MedKB.com - Breggin Revealed
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