Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall – Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children – James Moore

This week onMIA Radio, we interview Drs. Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall about their new initiative, Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children (SPAC!).

Peter Breggin, MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and a former consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health who has been called The Conscience of Psychiatry. For decades, he has made successful efforts to reform the field, including bringing a stop to lobotomy and psychosurgery. He has testified before the FDA and Congress, been an expert witness in many court cases involving the pharmaceutical industry and has appeared on Oprah and 60 Minutes, among other programs.

Dr. Breggin continues to criticize psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy, and promotes more caring, empathic and effective therapies. To that end, with his wife Ginger, he founded the Centerfor the Study ofEmpathic Therapy, Education and Living. He is the author of more than 20 books, most recently Guilt, Shame and Anxiety: Understanding andOvercoming Negative Emotions. Dr. Breggin maintains a private practice in Ithaca, New York where he treats adults, couples, and families with children.

MichaelCornwall,PhD has done therapy with children, teens and families since 1980 as well as specializing in therapy with people of all ages experiencing extreme states. He completed doctoral research on medication-free treatment of extreme states and is the editor of a two-volume special edition of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology on extreme states. Dr. Cornwall has been a prolific MIA blogger since 2012 and a frequent Esalen Institute workshop leader on alternative approaches to extreme states. He is the director of the SPAC! project for Dr. Breggins Center for Empathic Therapy.

SPAC! webpage, part of Dr. Peter Breggins Childrens Resource Center

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Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall - Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children - James Moore