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The Plant Yourself Podcast - Peter Breggin, MD, on Toxic Psychiatry and the Heart of Healing

Peter Breggin, MD, has been known as the "conscience of psychiatry" since his crusade starting in the 1970s to abolish psycho-surgery (lobotomization) and electro-convulsive therapy.

Since then, he's become an outspoken critic of the entire psychiatric profession, largely based on their reliance on neurotoxic drugs instead of humane and effective treatment options.

I heard Dr. Breggin give one talk on the history of psychiatric abuse of patients, and the other on the heart of healing from negative emotions and trauma (he refuses to use the term "mental illness").

With roughly 25% of the US population taking a psych med at any given time, and the known damage that these substances do over time, my fervent wish is that everyone spend a day in the presence of this modern-day prophet of compassion, love, and humanism.

Joining me as co-host for today's episode is my 17-year-old son Elan, who has been fascinated and inspired by Dr. Breggin's work since discovering it earlier this year.

Many of his friends have been treated with psych meds, and he has witnessed their destabilizing and often dehumanizing effects on people he cares deeply about.

I hope he decides to become a regular co-host on shows with issues that light his fire - if you agree, drop us a line in comments :)

Dr. Breggin, Elan, and I discussed:

  • the history of psychiatric human rights abuses

  • the goal of psychiatry: subdued, compliant humans

  • human nature and the abuse of power

  • Dr. Breggin's first peak at the psychiatric industry as a college freshman

  • similarities between mental hospitals and World War II concentration camps

  • the healing power of a caring relationship

  • the shocking FDA rules on drug approval criteria

  • how Eli Lilly conspired to hide the suicidal impact of their drugs from consumers

  • the modern epidemic of ADHD and the first generation to grow up on amphetamines

  • why people think that their meds are helping (intoxication anosognosia, or "medical spellbinding")

  • depressed people are simply more optimistic than normal

  • how to use dialog and compassion to help children change their behaviors

  • the importance of trust in a therapeutic relationship

  • how to democratize mental health initiatives

  • how and why to stop taking psychiatric meds

  • the uses and abuses of empathy

  • how Dr Breggin lost 30 pounds on a plant-based diet, and how his wife Ginger was relieved of decades of painful and debilitating symptoms within weeks

  • the ideal human diet of food and relationships

  • and much more...

Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and psychotherapist. As a medical, psychiatric, and scientific expert, he has testified in more than 100 trials and hearings in the U.S. and Canada, often on clinical psychopharmacology, mass murder, and the drug industry. He has 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications and more the 20 medical and popular books. Known for decades as “The Conscience of Psychiatry,” he and his wife and coauthor, Ginger Breggin, are now exposing and documenting COVID-19 as a cover story for the massive totalitarian shift being imposed on Western democracies. Their new best-selling book is COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey provides the deepest analysis of the global forces attacking America and Western Civilization, and how we can overcome them.

WHO ARE THE “THEY” - THESE GLOBAL PREDATORS?

WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PLANS FOR US?

HOW CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST THEM?

Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey