Peter Breggin Quotes

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

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

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

I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

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

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

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.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

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