Breggin Peter Quotes

#1. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

#2. Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

Peter Breggin

#3. It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level.

Mpho Koaho

#5. By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#6. Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

Peter Breggin

#7. The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.

Peter Breggin

#8. I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?"
He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you ... "
"I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.

Lani Diane Rich

#9. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

Peter Breggin

#10. Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no way relieving us of the responsibity to understand and improve ourselves.

Peter R. Breggin

#11. Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Peter Breggin

#12. There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and tell them they need drugs and these children are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years-old being treated in this manner,

Peter Breggin

#13. It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect.

Hunter Shea

#14. Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Peter Breggin

#15. People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

Glenn Danzig

#16. The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

Peter Breggin