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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.

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

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

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

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Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

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Peter Breggin

Peter Breggin

Born: May 11, 1936 (age 88)
Bio: Peter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and controversial critic of biological psychiatry and psychiatric medication.
Known for:
  1. Your Drug May Be Your Problem

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