Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (2008):
Drugs, Electroshock, and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex
By Peter Breggin, M.D.
Hardback Published by Springer Publishing Co.

Renowned psychiatrist Peter Breggin documents how psychiatric drugs and electroshock (ECT) disable the brain. He presents the latest scientific information on potential brain dysfunction and dangerous behavioral abnormalities produced by the most widely used drugs including Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Ritalin, and lithium.

Your Drug May Be Your Problem:
How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
by Peter Breggin M.D. and David Cohen Ph.D.
Paperback 2007 updated edition by Perseus Books

The first book to expose the shortcomings of psychiatric drugs and to guide patients and doctors through the process of withdrawing from them.

The Heart of Being Helpful:
Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence

by Peter Breggin, M.D.

Paperback published 2006 by Springer Publishing Company

Dr. Breggin illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond, or healing presence, between helping professionals and their clients. He provides useful vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help beginning and experienced therapists develop more empathy in therapeutic relationships.

"After years of detailing the myths and abuses of biopsychiatry, Peter Breggin comes full circle. With this profound and often poignant work from his own heart, he puts soul back into psychotherapy."
— Kevin McCready, Ph.D., Clinical Director, San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center

"Dr. Breggin passionately captures the heart of psychotherapeutic healing. A prolific and provocative writer, his thoughts are powerful, imaginative, inspirational, and wise. Not only would I recommend this book to professional psychotherapists, but also to the lay reader who will learn the meaning and intricacies of living and loving."
— Clemmont E. Vontress, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, George Washington University
Counselor of the Year — American Mental Health Counselor's Association

The Antidepressant Fact Book:
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Luvox
by Peter Breggin, MD
published by Perseus Books, 2001

Known as "the Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Dr. Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless court cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and  correspondence files, information from which informs this straight-talking guide to the most prescribed and controversial category of American drugs: antidepressants.

Toxic Psychiatry:
Why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the “new psychiatry.”
by Peter Breggin, M.D.

Paperback published 1991 by St. Martin's Press

Toxic Psychiatry remains Dr. Breggin's most complete overview of psychiatry and psychiatric medication. It has influenced many professionals and lay persons to transform their views on the superior value of psychosocial approaches compared to medication and electroshock.

The War Against Children of Color:
How the drugs, programs, and theories of the psychiatric establishment are threatening America’s children with a medical ‘cure’ for violence.
  by Peter Breggin, M.D.
co-authored with Ginger Ross Breggin
Updated paperback published in 1998

In 1992, Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Ross Breggin inspired a national campaign against the proposed federal "Violence Initiative," that aimed at identifying inner-city children with alleged defects that would make them violent when they reached adulthood. Many of the research plans, which are still in operation, involve searching for a "violence gene," finding "biochemical imbalances," and intervening in the lives of schoolchildren with psychiatric drugs. This book is an updated version of the Breggin's 1994 The War Against Children, with a new chapter that includes information on the federally funded fenfluramine studies done on inner city boys.

Talking Back to Ritalin, Revised :
What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD
by Peter Breggin, M.D.
with a forward by Dick Scruggs, JD
Paperback published by Perseus Books, 2001

Dr. Peter Breggin's book: Talking Back to Ritalin details the side effects and potential problems with Ritalin and other stimulants. It also thoroughly and critically examines the condition and diagnosis of ADHD and ADD, explores the economics and who profits from the diagnosis and the prescribing of stimulants for children, and offers six chapters for parents and other adults on how to help children in their care without resorting to Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs.

The Ritalin Fact Book:
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About ADHD and Stimulant Drugs
by Peter Breggin, MD
Paperback Published 2002 by Perseus Books

This book is the easiest and most direct way to get information on the stimulant drugs including Ritalin, Ritalin SR, Adderall, Adderall XR, Dexedrine, Focalin, Concerta, Metadate ER and Cylert. It contains the latest research on side effects, including permanent brain damage and dysfunction, and guidance on how to help out-of-control children without resort to drugs.

Talking Back to Prozac

By Peter Breggin MD and Ginger Breggin

Authors Peter R Breggin MD and Ginger Breggin have re-released their seminal book Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants with a new introduction and new information about the SSRI antidepressants, including the granddaddy of them all—Prozac.

This is the Breggin book that blew the whistle on the skewed science of the “new” antidepressants, including Paxil, Prozac, Luvox, Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin.

Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons
Peter Breggin and E. Mark Stern, Editors

Cloth published 1996 by Haworth Press, Inc.

 
“Makes a critical contribution by offering humanistic and caring alternatives for people who have long-standing histories of oppression and maltreatment.”  Fred Bemak , Ph.D., Chairperson for the Department of Counseling and Human Services, The Johns Hopkins University

"A humanist approach to treating 'psychotic' patients focusing on psychological and social therapeutic techniques rooted in the contributors' own practices working with deeply disturbed individuals. The 11 essays discuss contrasting therapeutic approaches, schizophrenic realities and modes of being, hallucinations and terror, communities for psychotic persons, illustrative therapy with schizophrenics, co-counseling, and working with the families of schizophrenic patients...." SciTech Book News, November 1996 

Beyond Conflict: From Self-Help and Psychotherapy to Peacemaking

by Peter Breggin, M.D.

paperback published 1992 by St. Martin's Press

“This book addresses the very core of what it means to be human.”
—Emilio Viano, Ph.D., professor at the School of Public Affairs, The American University

Reclaiming Our Children:
A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis
by Peter Breggin, MD

Dr. Breggin was motivated to write Reclaiming Our Childre by witnessing , along with millions of other Americans, the events surrounding the shootings at Columbine High School as they unfolded  first on television and then in the print media.   Dr. Breggin’s book begins with a description and analysis of these tragic events in Littleton, Colorado, and then moves on to examine our government’s response at the White House Conference on Mental Health.   He criticizes biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as a solution to the suffering and rebelliousness of America’s children. He also presents strong evidence that psychiatric drugs commonly cause psychoses and aggression in children, and that they probably contributed to individual cases of school violence.