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Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Best of Series - History as a Psychiatrist- Interview with Dr. Peter Breggin

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

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's been able to successfully reform the psychiatric profession, abolishing one of the most harmful practices, namely lobotomies and other experimental psychosurgeries.

Now 83 years old, Breggin has seen a lot, and in this interview, he shares his own evolution and experiences as a psychiatrist.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to the take control of your health podcast.

0:06.9

This is Dr. Mercola bringing you the latest cutting edge interviews to help you achieve

0:12.3

optimal health.

0:14.0

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0:19.8

because you won't find us on Google or Facebook, we respect your privacy and will continue

0:26.8

to fight the Silicon Valley censorship.

0:30.5

Thank you so much for listening so let's get started with this week's latest program

0:35.4

to help you and your family take control of your health.

0:41.8

So welcome everyone this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today

0:45.5

we are honored to be joined by Dr. Peter Bregan who has a very illustrious career and

0:51.5

I would categorize him as one of the true medical heroes, one of the people who is no

1:00.0

longer with us is David Bowie, an icon in the music industry and he had the song Heroes

1:06.9

which is one of my favorites.

1:09.1

And what is a hero?

1:10.4

A hero has someone with the multiple C characteristics and what are those courageous

1:17.2

and I want to explore the what makes Dr. Bregan so courageous, why was he able to do

1:26.6

what he's done and it will discuss what he's done and he'll summarize it very shortly

1:31.4

but I want you to know he's a massive hero, he's confident and he really knows a difference

1:37.4

between knowing and believing.

1:40.1

When you know something at the fundamental rate and he's clever and creative so when

1:43.9

you combine all these with a passion, you really can become a hero and he's done this

1:48.9

for four decades, he's a psychiatrist, he did his residency training at Harvard, taught

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