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🗓️ 15 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist, has written more than a dozen bestselling books on psychiatry and the drug industry. He's frequently referred to as “the conscience of psychiatry” because he was able to successfully reform the psychiatric profession, abolishing lobotomies and other harmful experimental psychosurgeries.
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0:39.0 | Welcome everyone, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by the imminent Dr. Peter Bregan who is notable in the area of psychiatry he was trained at |
0:56.2 | Harvard and taught there and at Johns Hopkins author of over a dozen best-selling |
1:01.5 | books in Piedom all the major media. |
1:04.3 | Oprah 60 minutes, 2020 Larry King, you name it. |
1:07.3 | He's been called the conscience of psychiatry and has really been a pivotal pioneering force in the mental health fields. |
1:16.0 | And you may recognize him as being instrumental as a physician who first came out against |
1:22.4 | lobotomy in psychosurgery and took a public stand about it when everyone else was was really embracing it. |
1:29.6 | So he you know because lobotomies took the brains of about 50,000 people, and he had amazing efforts in that and |
1:36.0 | his sit largely because such a catalyst that he was, it's been, we don't do that surgery anymore. So he's taking a new venture now and I'm really interested in going deep and exploring with him, but he's really focused on the |
1:55.0 | and the fear around that and in some of the details on why it's happening. |
1:56.5 | So we're gonna dive deep on that and I'm sure you're like I am gonna really enjoy this discussion. |
2:02.0 | So welcome, thank you for joining us today. |
2:04.4 | I'm so glad to be with you and thank you very much for covering our work so amazingly on your website. |
2:11.6 | It's a courageous thing to do and I think it's a great benefit. Thank you. |
2:17.1 | Well, you're welcome. So the first question I have is the obvious one. You've got this |
2:22.4 | incredible history in the mental health field, a pioneer in |
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