Knowledge and Hope Foundation

Articles and Interviews
Emotional suffering is not a defect to be medicated away
Dr Peter Breggin is called the “conscience of psychiatry”. In this recent interview he revisits arguments he has spent decades advancing: that modern psychiatric practice relies too heavily on medication, misunderstands how those drugs work, and too often overlooks the human dimensions of emotional suffering. Dr Breggin’s perspective stands firmly outside the mainstream. Yet his…



