Peter Breggin

Peter R. Breggin MD is known as The Conscience of Psychiatry for his many decades of successful reform work in the mental health field, but has now turned his attention to the misuse of science surrounding COVID-19 and its origins in what he and his coauthor Ginger Breggin are calling global predators. He is currently the medical and psychiatric expert for an injunction against the governor of Ohio for oppressing the citizens with unending emergency decrees related to COVID-19. Dr. Breggin and...See more

Peter R. Breggin MD is known as The Conscience of Psychiatry for his many decades of successful reform work in the mental health field, but has now turned his attention to the misuse of science surrounding COVID-19 and its origins in what he and his coauthor Ginger Breggin are calling global predators. He is currently the medical and psychiatric expert for an injunction against the governor of Ohio for oppressing the citizens with unending emergency decrees related to COVID-19. Dr. Breggin and his wife Ginger R. Breggin have written COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey. Dr. Breggin is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time Consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and part-time for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He has been approved as a medical expert in over 100 legal cases in state and federal courts on issues relating to adverse drug effects, drug approval, the pharmaceutical industry, and the FDA. He is the author of two dozen medical, scientific, and best-selling popular books, as well as dozens of scientific articles. Dr. Breggin's scientific and educational works have provided the foundation for modern criticism of psychiatric drugs, electroshock, and psychosurgery. He is also a leader in promoting more caring and effective therapies. His professional website and his video channels reach millions annually. Due to increasing censorship, it is best to follow his work by subscribing to his Free Frequent Alerts on his professional website, www.breggin.com. From early in his career, Peter has promoted freedom, responsibility, and love in his clinical, educational, professional, and political activities. His values of reason, liberty and love, and his research experience, led him to join others in examining and resisting the oppression behind COVID-19, and in promoting what he calls the Refounding of America.In the arena of COVID-19, along with his wife Ginger as his co-researcher and consultant, he is currently working with three outstanding attorneys in a variety of state, federal, and international cases to protect and advance individualfreedom: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Tom Renz in the United States, and Reiner Fuellmich in Germany and Europe. In these new roles, he draws on many decades of experience as a medical expert in hundreds of legal actions, including landmark cases, on behalf of patient rights in criminal, malpractice, and product liability lawsuits, as well as injunctions to stop abusive medical and psychiatric practices. Peter is in the private practice of psychiatry in Ithaca, New York. His educational background includes Harvard College, Case-Western Reserve School of Medicine, and psychiatric residency programs at both the State University of NY Upstate Medical Center and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center where he was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 24 medical and trade books, including the bestsellers Toxic Psychiatry (1991) and Talking Back to Prozac (with Ginger Breggin, 1994). His most recent three books are (1) Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime (2008); (2) Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: a Guidefor Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their Families (2013); and (3) Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Our Negative Emotions (2014). See less