PETER BREGGIN

IS THERE ONE SINGLE SHRINK ANYWHERE THAT CAN BE TRUSTED ? REBECCA MERHAV'S KNOCK BACKS, AND HER FATHER'S ON HER BEHALF PROVIDE A NEGATIVE REPLY !

by Justice Lover

The so called "good psychiatrists", namely, those who claim to oppose the psychiatric atrocities, and have been honest enough to expose psychiatric deceptions and the subservience to Big Pharma, are only 90% honest. Therefore, no shrink can be fully trusted.

Take, for example, the top of the 90% honest shrinks : Dr. Thomas Szasz and Dr. Breggin. The first established the CCHR which is an arm of the Church of Scientology, and consequently subordinated to its diktat. Also, as is well known, Szasz has been for many years a tenured Professor of psychiatry, until his retirement, and consequently obliged to train new shrinks who would perpetrate the same psychiatric atrocities which he has exposed and condemned ! He refused to offer any help when Rebecca's father appealed to him, neither did the CCHR of which he still is the head !

Breggin too did not reply to any of the many appeals for his help emailed to him by Rebecca's father. Instead, he has been busy extending his influence on other shrinks. He has been busy making plenty of money too out of people's trust in him, as is correctly pointed out in the brief article below.

Rebecca's father failed to get the support of the knaves who run the organisations which claim to represent the interests of survivors of psychiatry, their members. Could it be that the 90% honest shrinks are behind that refusal too ? Or is it perhaps the long arm of Big Pharma that bought them over ?

A lawyer on behalf of the local shrinks has threatened by a letter to take both civil and criminal actions against Rebecca's father if he won't stop complaining against the 30 years of psychiatric torture of his daughter ! The letter also demnands that he should stop "inciting" other people to
protest her compulsory torture !

Here is the article by Dr. Dan Edmunds :

http://danledmunds.blogspot.com/2008/05/peter-breggin.html

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

PETER BREGGIN

I was recently asked by colleagues about my thoughts in regards to Peter Breggin. While some of his books have opened the door to discussions about humane psychiatry, I have a number of issues with Breggin.

First, he is out of touch. His clients have been the rich and elite who can afford his extravagant fees. He does not truly know the issues of disadvantaged children because he does not see them in his practice. In a phone conversation with Breggin where I asked him to simply see a foster child once to help with withdrawal from stimulants, he asked for $500 before he would do anything.

Second, Breggin is intellectually dishonest and profits highly for being a critic. Much like the biopsychiatrists he claims to oppose, he will distort information if he is paid the right fee.
I do not believe this is the way the cause for a humane psychiatr should be. We should not turn any way who need help and we must always be persons of ethics and principle.

Dan L. Edmunds,Ed.D.
www.humanepsychiatry.info