Even in college, when Dr. Breggin was director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Mental Hospital Volunteer Program, he opposed the coercive practices so rampant in psychiatry, which include misinformation, authoritarianism, and involuntary treatment. He began criticizing coercion and involuntary treatment in his earliest scientific publications (1964 and 1965). This collection of papers makes available his earliest papers on the subject. Following the initial scientific articles, additional ones were published in magazines and journals that are not scientific in orientation. He also writes about psychiatric coercion in his book Toxic Psychiatry and then more systematically when he describes the three dynamics of love, voluntary exchange, and coercion in his book Beyond Conflict. He suggests that the reader take a good look at his seminal paper on the role of psychiatry in the Holocaust (1993) published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, which concludes with a systematic look at the inherently oppressive principles of genetic and biological psychiatry. This paper was delivered in Germany at the first-ever conference on Medicine in the Third Reich.
A Libertarian Psychology: Self Ownership - A Condition for Happiness. (1979)
Oct 11, 1979 | freedom-and-coercion
Breggin, PR, (1979). Humanist, v39 n3 p28-31 May...
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Psychosurgery for the control of violence: a critical review (1975)
Jan 28, 1975 | psychosurgery lobotomy-and-psychosurgery psychiatry-racism-coercion-and-social-control scientific-papers freedom-and-coercion
Breggin, PR. (1975). In W. Fields & W. Sweet (Eds....
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Psychosurgery for political purposes (1975)
Jan 01, 1975 | lobotomy-and-psychosurgery psychiatry-racism-coercion-and-social-control selected-scientific-papers freedom-and-coercion
Duquesne Law Review 13:841-862, 1975. Several o...
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Psychosurgery (1973)
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 226(9...
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The second wave of psychosurgery (1973)
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M/H (Mental Health) 57:10-13. LOBOTOMY and ...
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Psychotherapy as applied ethics (1971)
Jan 01, 1971 | therapy-counseling-and-life selected-scientific-papers psychology-life-and-overcoming-negative-emotions freedom-and-coercion
Breggin, PR. (1971). Psychiatry 34:59-75, 1971. ...
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Book Review: The Borderland of Criminal Justice: Essays in Law and Criminology (1965)
Oct 11, 1965 | freedom-and-coercion
Beggin, PR (1965). Journal of Nervous and Mental D...
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Coercion of voluntary patients in an open hospital (1964)
May 15, 1964 | psychiatry-racism-coercion-and-social-control scientific-papers freedom-and-coercion
Breggin, PR. (1964). Archives of General Psychiatr...
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Contribution to the Social Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill (1962)
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Breggin, PR. (1962). The College Student and the Mental Health Patient...
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