Co-authored by Ginger Ross Breggin

The most vulnerable among us are the littlest victims. Young children, torn from their birth families through various, often unspeakable tragedies. These children end up in state supervised foster care and too often are passed from hand to hand, house to house. There were

Shortly after Prozac became the best-selling drug in the world in the early 1990s, I proposed that there was little or no evidence for efficacy, but considerable evidence that the drug would worsen depression and cause severe behavioral abnormalities. I attributed much of the...

Jail Sentence Shortened Due to Role of Prozac in Causing Murder

Final sentencing for the teenager who inexplicably murdered his friend while on Prozac occurred November 4, 2011. The case involved a Winnipeg, Canada teenage high school student with no prior history of...

The diagnosing of millions of children with ADHD in order to medicate them with stimulants and other psychoactive chemicals is an American tragedy, growing into a worldwide catastrophe. Never before in history has a society attempted to deal with its children by drugging a significant portion of them into conformity...

My October 3, 2011 blog on The Huffington Post described a recent precedent-setting criminal case in which a Winnipeg, Manitoba judge confirmed my written opinion and courtroom testimony that Prozac adverse drug effects drove a 16-year-old boy to stab a friend to death. I have now made the

The headline from the Winnipeg Free Press in Canada tells the story: "Judge Says Prozac Factor in Teen Murder." Provincial court judge Robert Heinrichs listened to my testimony as a psychiatric expert on behalf of the defense and weighed it against that of a Canadian psychiatrist...

Drug companies stop making antidepressants? The possibility is not so farfetched.

A headline in Britain's Guardian puts it this way: "Research into brain disorders under threat as drug firms pull out." The subhead explains, "Scientists warn of big financial and social impact while fear of litigation and expenses...

Almost exactly one year ago, my wife Ginger and I, and a number of friends and colleagues, began to form the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living. We also began to plan its first annual Empathic Therapy Conference, scheduled to take place shortly on...

On Saturday morning April 9th of this year, a panel discussion will be held for the public and professionals on the theme of "Psychiatric Drug Tragedies: Personal, Legal and Medical Perspectives."

The two-hour presentation focuses on suicide and murder potentially caused by antidepressant medications. It is part of the...

It's part biological and part psychological and spiritual. But there's no doubt about the direction that humankind must go in--toward empathic individual relationships and ultimately a more empathic culture. Until human beings truly learn to love and to understand one another, and to adopt empathic attitudes and practices, the world...

With advice and guidance from 20 advisory council members of the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living, I have formulated 15 guidelines for empathic therapy. Advisory council members include psychiatrists, neurologists, addiction specialists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, educators and advocates.

These guidelines...

Friday afternoon, January 28, 2011: The FDA's panel for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) voted to place ECT machines in Category III for all but one indication. If the FDA accepts the panel's recommendation, the agency will require testing for all uses except "catatonia" which was recommended for Category II, requiring less...

Duff Wilson provided a service by presenting both sides of the controversy when he wrote his report "F.D.A. Is Studying the Risk of Electroshock Devices" in the January 24, 2011 New York Times. The FDA is proposing to move ECT from the high risk category to the medium...

For decades the FDA has allowed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to be used without requiring any proof of safety or efficacy. The machines and the treatment have been "grandfathered" into use rather than tested. A few years ago the FDA proposed to test the treatment but heavy pressure from the American...

Want to be helpful to almost anyone under almost any circumstances?

Want to be a better friend, husband or wife, doctor or teacher, therapist or police officer?

Maybe you just want to make this holiday season as pleasant as possible for everyone around you.

Almost every kind of help...

Every society has found its own methods to abuse its most vulnerable members: children; women; the elderly; ethnic, racial and religious minorities; the poor; the mentally distressed or distressing; the physically disabled; those with unconventional lifestyles. All of these have been widely abused and all remain victims of abuse to...

Remember not so long ago when Prozac became the world's largest selling medication of any kind, and then for years how Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft took over many of the top 10 spots? Remember the explanations at the time--that they were wonder drugs and that 15-50 percent or more of...

I am best known from my critiques of biological, mechanistic psychiatry with its cookie-cutter diagnoses and brain-disabling drugs and shock treatment. Establishment and institutional psychiatry can be like a dark shadow that crowds out the light. Even as we grow in awareness of the harm perpetrated by biological psychiatry, we...

Today I am reproducing for my readers a letter that we recently received from a woman I will call "Janice." My wife Ginger reads and responds to most of the many communications that come to us each day through email and the networking sites she has joined. Several times a...

"I have a biochemical imbalance."
"My kid is ADD."
"I'm Bipolar."
"I suffer from Clinical Depression."
"I have Panic Disorder."

Is there anything wrong with diagnosing ourselves or even accepting the mental health diagnoses of psychiatrists, family doctors, psychotherapists and other health professionals?

Psychiatric diagnoses are...