Breggin 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. 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

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

Peter Breggin

#4. I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine

Leon Russell

#5. The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Gene Kelly

#6. Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#7. 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

#8. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

Fran Lebowitz

#9. Be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses

Elif Shafak

#10. Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

Teju Cole

#11. The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

William James

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

Peter Breggin

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

Peter Breggin

#15. Volcker relied on public opinion, integrity, and persistence to overcome the political pressure to finance government spending the easy way, by printing money rather than by taxation.

William L. Silber

#16. Often of late she has accused herself of being a hard woman. As if she will not suffer her soil to be raw and tender, will not submit to the vulnerability of the new green shoot.

Glenn Haybittle

#17. 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

#18. As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.
The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

Patrick Ness

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

Peter Breggin

#20. Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.

Peter Landesman

#21. Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

William J. Clinton

#22. Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

Magnus Carlsen

#23. Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

Christopher Plummer

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

Peter Breggin