Reclaiming Our Children:
A Healing Plan for
a Nation in Crisis
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Peter Breggin’s latest book, Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation In Crisis, is now available. Official publication was planned for February 1, 2000; but it reached the book stores ahead of time. It can also be found on Amazon.com. Perseus Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the publisher.
Dr. Breggin was motivated to write the book by witnessing , along with millions of other Americans, the events surrounding the shootings at Columbine High School as they unfolded first on television and then in the print media. Dr. Breggin’s book begins with a description and analysis of these tragic events in Littleton, Colorado, and then moves on to examine our government’s response at the White House Conference on Mental Health. He criticizes biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as a solution to the suffering and rebelliousness of America’s children. He also presents strong evidence that psychiatric drugs commonly cause psychoses and aggression in children, and that they probably contributed to individual cases of school violence.
Reclaiming Our Children discusses the overall situation of children in America, including the stresses on their lives in the family, school, and community. The author urges parents, teachers, and other concerned citizens to retake responsibility for all our children. He sees the necessity of transforming ourselves and our society in order to meet the needs of all of our children for meaningful relationships with adults, as well as for unconditional love, rational discipline, inspiring education, and play. He makes specific recommendations for improving family and school life based on sound psychological and ethical principles.
About the Author
With a background that Time magazine describes as "pure establishment"--Harvard
College, Case Western Reserve Medical School, and a teaching fellowship
at Harvard Medical School--Peter Breggin, M.D., has become an internationally
known psychiatrist and author of a dozen books, including the bestselling
Talking Back to Prozac and Talking Back to Ritalin. Formerly a member of
the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Counseling, he
is the International Director of
the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, which he founded
in the early 70s. He is in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland.
What Others Are Saying About Reclaiming Our Children …
“Psychiatrist Peter Breggin once again captures the heartbeat of a nation’s
struggle and brings to light one of our darker secrets – that we are sacrificing
our children on the altar of our own adult-based needs and values.
Anyone concerned with the lives of our children should read this book.”
- FRED BEMAK, Ed.D., Professor of Counselor Education,
Ohio State University
“I thought I had read and heard everything there is to say about children
and violence in the wake of Littleton. But this book surprised me.
Peter Breggin has eyes that see the world differently and more clearly.
He shares his unique perspective with us in a warm and challenging way.
I hope the nation can catch his vision.”
- DOUGLAS C. SMITH, M.D., Psychiatrist
“…This very engaging and well-documented book is destined to be a classic
and a boon to parents, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social
workers, teachers, and others interested in getting a handle on a problem
that threatens our whole society.”
- CLEMONT E. VONTRESS, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
of Counseling, George Washington University
“ A bold and insightful work that could only come from the man hailed
as the ‘Conscience of American Psychiatry.’ Instead of quick fixes
Breggin offers realistic, long-term solutions based on spiritual virtues
of love, charity, and nurturing discipline. He both challenges and
ispires us to stop scapegoating our children and to face and overcome the
fatal flaws in ourselves and our society.”
- KEVIN McCREADY, Ph.D., Director, San Joaquin
Psychotherapy Center, Clovis, CA
“Peter Breggin’s courageous, compassionate writings serve as a much-needed
antidote to the genetic determinism and pro-drug bias of modern psychiatry
and psychology.”
- JOHN HORGAN, author of The End of Science
and The Undiscovered Mind
Peter R. Breggin, MD
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