Peter R. Breggin MD

Prominent Trial Attorney, Jack Girardi interviews Peter R. Breggin, MD, who has been called “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his efforts to reform the mental health field. He has created a new organization to bring together professionals and laypersons concerned with a critical analysis of biopsychiatry and with more effective empathic approaches in mental health and education. Dr. Breggin often acts as a medical expert in criminal, malpractice and product liability suits. A recent precedent-setting case in Canada was based on Dr. Breggin’s testimony and written report. On September 16, 2011 in Winnipeg, a Provincial judge concluded that Prozac caused a sixteen-year-old boy to knife a friend to death. Recently Dr. Breggin was the medical expert in the first psychosurgery malpractice suit and also the first ECT malpractice suit ever won in court. He has been a medical expert in many courtroom victories for individuals injured by medications, including numerous cases of tardive dyskinesia caused by neuroleptic drugs.