This article was previously published September 27, 2020, and has been revised with new information.

Dr. Peter Breggin, a therapist, has written more than a dozen bestselling bibles on psychiatry and the medicine industry. He’s often referred to as “the conscience of psychiatry” because he’s been able to successfully reform the psychiatric professing, rescinding one of the most harmful rules, namely lobotomies and other experimental psychosurgeries.

He was the first to take a public stand against lobotomies as a young man, and was able to change the field as a result. He’s featured in Aaron and Melissa Dykes’ excellent documentary, “The Minds of Men.”1

Now 83 year olds, Breggin has read a good deal, and in this interview, he shares his own evolution and knowledge as a analyst. His interest in psychiatry was initiated in the age of 18, when he became a volunteer at a regional government mental hospital.

“It was a nightmare, ” he says. “It was like my uncle Dutch’s descriptions of liberating a Nazi concentration camp. The target stank. People were sitting in these naked, barrens material corridors.

They had a TV set that wasn’t working … and bolted down tables and chairs so the people couldn’t throw them at one another. No attention being given to them at all. Often simply to stay here; some hallucinating, and somebody told me that the girl in the reces coiled up in a clod on the flooring by a radiator had been a Radcliffe student …

The doctors were heartless, the aids were callous, there was just no kindnes in the place at all. I could tell, even though I didn’t certainly have much know growing up with love, I could feel that what was missing was love, upkeep, encouraging. It was so clear.”

Toxic Psychiatry

Breggin eventually became the leader of that volunteer platform. He and 200 other students depicted the walls and took patients for strolls. He invited the superintendent to assign one patient per voluntary facilitate, to build real relations. The superintendent balked at the relevant recommendations, but eventually payed in. Breggin tells this story in his book, “Toxic Psychiatry.”2

“We culminated up getting almost every patient out of that hospital, ” he says. “We got them placed in different places that were much better. We got some back with their families. It was so clear to me that this was the way to go …

I watched electroshock and insulin coma offend where people would come in and they’d give them overdoses of insulin to send them into coma. They’d be frothing at the mouth, subconscious, having convulsions and getting ready to die, literally. Then they would give them orange liquor or carbohydrate irrigate and they would become alert again.

It was so clear to me what was going on. People would come in full of energy — furious, depressed, anxious and often resistant … They’d get this injection of insulin to thump them out, killing them, basically, but when they came awake they were like puppies. They were grateful, they said ‘Thank you, I feel like you saved me.’ They’d be pliant … There’s no fooling about what this was. I knew exactly what it was.

I knew what shock treatment was … I’ve been fighting this, but we’re still doing it … It’s when they made electrodes on the forehead of the ability … You get a shock of a voltage … 10 times what you need to give contractions … and it prepares docility. It makes people out of touch with themselves. It makes people unable to complain …[ Elevated mood] is the artificial euphoria[ is generated by] brain damage. This is very brain damaging.”

All of this is something that motivated Breggin to go into psychiatry, in order to help reform the profession from the inside. Interestingly, as early as 1963, Jerry Klerman, who later became the highest-ranking psychiatrist in the federal government and a prof at Harvard, told Breggin there was no future in helping people strengthen their mental resilience.

The future, Klerman told him, was in medications, and using computers to decide which remedies to use. After his first time at Harvard medical clas, Breggin left and went back to the Upstate Medical Center( University) in New York, where he had already done internship.

“Then I went on to the National Institute of Mental health issues … for two years. There I find clearly what was happening. Psychiatry was leaving the psychosocial simulation behind.

My volunteer program had already been described by the last large-hearted Federal Commission on Mental health issues. It’s mentioned two or three times and described as one of the solutions to the immense mental institution troubles … Nothing about stimulants, medicine and offending people in it.

It was much more real, so much better about what was really going on with human beings and human sufferings, spiritual, mental. I could just see this writing on the wall and I was not sure what to do. I was invited to stay at the National Institute of Mental Health.

I consented briefly, in the child division. I was very interested in helping children. Then I made, I can’t do this. I made them cautioning without even having a job that I was leaving. I didn’t know what else to do, so I went into private practice.”

Breggin Spearheaded Drug-Free Psychiatry

Breggin focused on helping people without remedy. “I learned very quickly that the most perturbed beings would calm down and relate when person cared about them, wasn’t afraid of them, was interested in them and realized no feigning of being superior to them, ” he says. Drugs, he asks, were simply stifling the patients. While they might ease some of the lose, that relief came at the expense of brain damage.

Breggin goes on to tell the story of how he frustrated the return of lobotomies and psychosurgeries — strategies in which the ability is purposely detriment through electric shocks, radium chip embeds or puncturing the prefrontal area of the brain with an frost collect placed next to the eyeball, for example.

Breggin refers to lobotomies as a crime of the being, the permanent mutilation of an individual’s selfhood, as damage caused to one place of the psyche will harm the integration of the whole brain. As noted by Breggin, you cannot “plop out aggression” like a pit out of an olive. The brain doesn’t work like that. It’s an integrated part and mental processes arise from integrated operations involving many different areas of the brain.

So numerous beings now know that narcotics are dangerous and shock treatment is horrible. But, the ability of psychiatry originates and the stimulant firms proliferate … and more and more people are being recruited by all the ads and all the fake science.

He decided somebody had to stop the madness. And, while he received no reinforcement from any other well-known psychiatrist or professor, and came under ardent attempt by the establishment, including threats of physical violence against himself and his family that at times compelled the use of bodyguards.

Breggin eventually succeeded. It’s a fascinating fib, so I most recommend listening to the whole interview. When asked why he took on this formidable fight, he says 😛 TAGEND

“When I read what was being done to people, I said ‘Somebody has to do this. I got no choice about this.’ I “d no idea” what I was up against. I had no idea that everywhere there would be enemies; that I’d be threatened with violence.

When I was invited to speak by Harvard Medical students, that beings would rend down all the signs about the intersect; that there’d be blowback on the students and stuff like that. I had no idea what I was treading into.”

The Lawsuit That Ended Lobotomies

The end of lobotomies was come about by a lawsuit filed by a young solicitor listed Gabe Kaimowitz on behalf of a chronically hospitalized case who had been promised liberate from the mental hospital if he underwent experimental psychosurgery. Breggin tells the story 😛 TAGEND

“[ Kaimowitz] found out they were going to do a psychosurgery experimentation in the government hospice with a local university, Wayne’s State. It was all set up to go. He occurred. In point, the case is called by his name, which is unusual … Kaimowitz v. The Department of Mental health issues Wayne State University.

A three-judge panel met about the occurrence. This[ patient] had been interviewed by the Commissioner of Mental health issues. He had been chronically hospitalized and then reportedly had sexually assaulted a wet-nurse or something, but there was no record of it and certainly no adjudication about it; no assembles about it. He was a lifetime patient.

The Commissioner told him he could get out if he underwent the psychosurgery. Well, the justices looked over his instance and decided that, first, he was going to be removed because he was being held illegally. They removed John doe. Then the nation said, ‘Well, the case is over.’ They said ‘No. You guys have set up this whole thing. We’re going to look at it.SSSS

Well, I was the go-to person as …[ Kaimowitz] delivered me in. I couldn’t testify the first day because they were filibustering me. They wanted to force me to stay overnight so that … they’d have the whole weekend to review the case with the surgeons. Follow me?

Of course, they’re forcing me into testifying in the afternoon, filibustering in the morning. Gabe said, ‘This is really too bad because now they’re going to have the whole weekend to talk about your testament with the surgeons.’ I said, ‘No , no , no. We’ll filibuster back. I’ll testify on something else for the afternoon.’ He said, ‘How are you going to do that? SSSS

I said, ‘Well, I’ll talk about the history of psychiatry. I’m going to tie it into the extermination camps, which were very much modeled on regime mental hospital. Show the comparison and hopefully the adjudicators will cite the Nuremberg Code, which says that, of course, that worker couldn’t volunteer in a state mental hospital because he’s in a total institute, just like the Nuremberg Code was applied to.SSSS

He said, ‘OK.’ I leave him a few questions and we proceeded that afternoon and did that. Then on the following Monday, I started to talk about psychosurgery. They used to be so unprepared that all they could do was go through this 100 -page paper that I had written …

We won the trial and it stopped, on the spot, all psychosurgery in the mood hospices in the federal programs. NIH stopped; VA stopped and all the state hospices stopped. This was 1972 -1 973. “

It’s important to realize just how important this was, to put a stop to the return of lobotomies and experimental psychosurgeries. It was widely accepted as a practical mixture for different sorts of troubles, including scoot riots and behavioral troubles among young children.

The beginning of the end of psychosurgery was the early 1970 s. At that time, Breggin, who for most of his vocation struggled to get support, got the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, who could see the social consequences of psychosurgery being used on black children, as well as certain republican Senators who thought it was immoral.

“I was the first person to criticize lobotomies in public, let alone the first analyst. It was crazy. I still don’t understand human beings. I working very hard about it, but I keep falling short. I couldn’t believe that I was so alone doing this, ” he says.

The Dangers of Speaking Out Against Prozac

Breggin likewise had a hand in coming the word out about the dangers of Prozac. In his 1991 journal, “Toxic Psychiatry, ” he briefly mentioned Prozac is likely to do a good deal of distres, and that there were already reports of the medication inducing viciou aggression.

He was later asked to be the sole technical expert to put together the science for various dozen prosecutions against Eli Lilly, in which cases or their families claimed the medication had caused brutal occurrences, suicide, homicide, mania or psychosis. The theatre and plot smothering this visitation challengers any good spy novel, so for more details, listen to the interview.

As just one example, at the time of his deposition against Eli Lilly, he, his wife and daughter all developed severe illness. By luck, a plumber they’d called in to fix a problem in the cellar detected the stovepipe for the gas heater had been unplugged and was laying out of view, as if intentionally hidden, shooting gas into the house.

Before that, the family had received death threats, and Breggin had called the FBI. Agents claiming to be FBI had seen his family, but something apparently wasn’t right.

“When I called the FBI back, they said they had no record of coming to see me, ” Breggin says. “It went very weird … We were in this strange macrocosm. People would get angry at me in the gatherings. By the channel, that never happens, anymore … I want people to know, the environmental issues has changed completely.

So many parties now know that stimulants are dangerous and shock treatment is horrible. But, the strength of psychiatry develops and the drug companies thrive … and more and more people are being banked by all the ads and all the fake science. It is all forge science. You can look at any of my books. If you crave it quicker, “ve been looking for” my YouTube channel.”

In wide-reaching movements, the Eli Lilly inquiry turned out to be fixed in Eli Lilly’s favor and Breggin was set up to fail in his investigation. The plaintiffs lost the case and Eli Lilly was cleared of charges. Eventually, nonetheless, manifestation emerged indicating Eli Lilly solicitors had bribed some of the plaintiffs and arranged for a secret settlement added they lost the case.

A Supreme Court judge in Kentucky showed the tribulation a fraud and deepened the judgment to “a secret settlement with prejudice.” When the magistrate decided to disclose the amount of the secret settlement, he was removed and replaced with another reviewer who decided the settlement amount was not to be disclosed as it might hurt Eli Lilly. The full details of this remarkable case can be found in Breggin’s book, “Medication Madness.”3

Electroshock Treatment — A Real-World Conspiracy

One psychiatric care Breggin has not been able to eliminate is electroshock treatment( ECT ), which is actually starting to be used more and more. Breggin says 😛 TAGEND

“I’ve worked on denting shock treatment. Then ultimately, a class action suit was fetch against car manufacturers. They lost against the first manufacturer. There were two[ makes] in North America, and I wasn’t involved. Then they announced me in. Of direction, they expected, again, to just get it thrown out of court.

I did a technical brief for the adjudicator on brain damage from ECT. The referee decided that there was sufficient evidence for brain damage to make it a jury question. This was huge. The adjudicate be concentrated on the single most important thing he could.

The drug company, within dates, decided and put out a statement to the FDA that ECT can cause brain damage and severe memory loss. All that’s up on my website, and I’ve written blogs about it … to show you the specific characteristics of what is definitely a plot of people working together toward the same aim and being evil about it.

Within epoches, the FDA approved ECT for the first time for treatment-resistant depression, which is nothing. It’s abused more and more. It’s not less. I don’t think we braked it down with this, but we made a big gain. We now have a record of a drug company admit to the FDA it induces brain damage and so on.

Then the FDA with all its superpower comes right back and then approves ECT for the first time. They had never approved it. They tried to and there was so much opposition they didn’t get it on. Then when the dose companies got hurt, it was within daylights that they approved it. Wow.”

On Neuralink and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Breggin also discusses the hazards of transcranial direct current stimulation and Neuralink, a transcranial embed designed by the Elon Musk Company. Elon is probably doing this because he’s concerned about the incorporation of artificial intelligence, which is coming.

He nervousness the human race could become subservient to artificial intelligence. He feels one of the preservation strategies is to allow us to sort of keep pace with these advances. Breggin comments 😛 TAGEND

“This is the new cutting edge that I’m trying to get across to people. I have a brand-new substantiate. If you go to my YouTube channel and look at[ my interview with] the Dykes … I did a show about this saying that this is worse than the psychiatry and we still have preparations. I’m concentrates on all the electronics.

The FDA has approved electrodes on the heads of children to leave them on all darknes long to give them low-spirited voltage stimulant, which is going to go through the scalp, back up the nerves, all the way to the frontal lobes in an solely disorderly hammer-like, subduing action. It’s going to blunt the teenagers. It’s horrendous. They studied it for four weeks and approved it, if you can imagine that.

It’s low-pitched voltage, but we know it stops brain waves. It’s bizarre that they approved this. I started to take this on and then, or actually through Aaron and Melissa, I found out about what was being done by Elon Musk. What’s interesting to me is that while Musk is so brilliant, he’s stupid about the intelligence. That’s probably because the neurosurgeons and psychiatrists he consults are stupid about the brain.

I mean they’re just stupid. He wants to put in multiple threadlike electrodes into the brain, into networks of neurons, and lay in low-grade voltage stimulant. This is insane. The brain can’t tolerate this. He hope to be able to[ be able to] communicate but there’s not going to be any communication.

The brain isn’t going to talk to these electrodes. That’s not how the intelligence use. The brain talks to itself. It’s not going to talk to Elon Musk[ or anybody else] and he’s going to disrupt the brain talking to itself. It’s a horrendous thing to do.

I wish somebody who knows Elon Musk would say, ‘You ought to talk to Peter Breggin. He says your consultants are stupid.’ He’s already planning to try to get FDA approval for some neurological disorders and that’ll be the beginning of the onslaught.

Here’s the really deadly part — a part to really think about and close with — and that is that the defense department, DARPA, is funding Musk.

The Dykes found out that the machine is going to be used to hem in these electrodes … through the funding required of DARPA and work through UCLA, which has always been assassins of the psyche. We shut down planneds at UCLA starting road back. We shut down a lot of different kinds of programs in my anti-psychosurgery campaign.”

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