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Peter Roger Breggin (born May 11, 1936) is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.

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

Clinton, Involuntary, Said, Teenager, Want

I think the first thing parents need to start doing is absolutely refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of children in school. Schools should not be mental hospitals. Parents should say that the only tests they want their children to have are those respecting their academic subjects and nothing else.

Children, School, Thinking, Tests, Nothing, Thing

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

Consistent, Ethically, Love Is, Love You, Selfishness

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

History, Miracle, Drug, Neuroleptics, Damage

I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of psychiatry; and today that means the "pill" as an ultimate answer. Also, if you have a desire for social control, "benevolent" control and "benevolent" authority, then again biological psychiatry offers a tremendous opportunity.

Control, Family, Mean, Philosophy, Religion, Thinking

It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.

Boys, Children, Mental, Percent, School, Training

I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

Kids, Animal, Issues, Socializing, Stop, Michael

In some cases it is identical because methamphetamine is one of the F. D. A. drugs allowed for children. The three basic stimulants now are amphetamine, methamphetamine, and then Ritalin, which are all in the same class and Schedule Two drugs along with cocaine, the most addictive drug as recognized by all the world's drug agencies.

Agencies, Agency, Amphetamine, Cases, Children, Class

[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.

Away, Children, Educational, Forces, Government, Taken

In part I'm just mystified. Here's a woman, Hillary [Clinton], who wrote a book about it takes a "village" to raise children. It wasn't about a book about "it takes a pill. " There's a "double think" that the modern person often has. Anything that's called "science" is accepted as an absolute and sweeps reason away.

Book, Children, Raise, Sweeps, Thinking, Village

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

Children, Evaluation, Parent, Psychological, School

[ Alfred Kinsey] was sexually abusing those children and had sex abusers working for him to stimulate the babies.

Abusing, Baby, Children, Kinsey, Sex, Working

The N. I. M. H. spent multi-millions of dollars on [Ritalin studies], and they're going to do the same thing now with little kids. And despite the millions spent, the N. I. M. H. study wasn't even conducted according to accepted scientific procedures and is basically worthless.

According, Dollars, Kids, Littles, Millions, Ritalin

[Hillary Clinton] is giving money to N. I. M. H. [National Institute for Mental Health] ultimately to conduct more experiments on two- to four-year-olds. What they're going to do is conduct a lot of clinical studies which actually drug two- to four-year-olds.

Conduct, Giving, Giving Money, Two, Ultimately, Years

The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no attention. It is entirely possible that without psychiatry the holocaust could never have taken place.

Attention, Civilization, Impact, Place, Taken

Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.

Self, Drug, Understanding, Drugs, Impairing, Processes

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

Dangerous, Psychiatry, Psychiatrist, Person, Become

What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.

Damage Control, Drugs, Hypocrisy, Know, Pleasure, Years

There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and tell them they need drugs and these children are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years-old being treated in this manner.

America, Children, Give, Human, Worse, Years

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

Best Love, Create, Fulfillment, Love Is, Passionate, Romantic Love