Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety

""Prozac’s worst enemy.... Many patients rave about the doctor. ’He’s a wonderful person,’ says one satisfied customer. ’He cares so much about his clients. He gave me the will to get better.’" -- Time magazine profile of Dr. Breggin “Dr. Breggin in one of the most amazing, wise and compassionate human beings I have ever known." --Candace Pert, PhD, author of Molecules of the Mind “Breggin’s courageous, compassionate writings serve as a much-needed antidote to the genetic determinism and pro-drug bias of modern psychiatry and psychology." -- John Horgan, author The End of Science and The Undiscovered Mind “Peter Breggin is the conscience of psychology....... He has made a difference in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and mental health [and] to many patients whose treatment has been less destructive and more helpful." -- Bertram Karon, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Michigan State University, APA Psychologist of the Year “Dr. Breggin passionately captures the heart of psychotherapeutic healing. A prolific and provocative writer, his thoughts are powerful, imaginative, inspirational, and wise." --Clemmont E. Vontress, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Counseling, George Washington University, Counselor of the Year, American Mental Health Counselor’s Association (reviewing The Heart of Being Helpful) “His work probably has had much more direct impact on the understanding and behavior of practitioners and patients, perhaps more than all the other theorists [i.e., Laing, Szasz and Goffman] combined." --Thomas J. Scheff, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara “Nobody is as intuitively correct about some of the deepest issues facing psychiatry. --Jeffrey Masson, former Director of the Freud Archives, author The Assault on Truth: The Suppression of Freud’s Seduction Theory “Nowhere is the correct psychiatric thinking more evident than in the books of Peter Breggin." --William Glasser, MD, psychiatrist, author of Reality Therapy