The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour

Dr. Peter Breggin Hour 11-12-25 Maximizing the healing potential of a life-changing stroke

Fifteen days ago, we left our home to travel to a specialized clinic that treats people who have suffered brain injuries, including strokes, Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), or other neurological damage. Twelve hundred miles later, we arrived at The Villages in Florida. We met with our dear friend and courageous patriot, James Thorp, MD, tonight to discuss our continuing odyssey, both the physical journey and the spiritual and emotional one we are embarked upon, as we seek to maximize the healing potential for Peter following his stroke in August of this year. Join us as we share this continuing adventure with Dr. Jim Thorp and you all, our wonderful audience.  You can never know what life may have in store for you next! ______   Learn more about Dr. Peter Breggin's work: https://breggin.com/ [https://breggin.com/]   See more from Dr. Breggin's long history of being a reformer in psychiatry: https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control [https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control]   Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, the how-to manual @ https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/ [https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/]   Get a copy of Dr. Breggin's latest book: WHO ARE THE “THEY” - THESE GLOBAL PREDATORS? WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PLANS FOR US? HOW CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST THEM? Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey Get a copy: https://www.wearetheprey.com/ [https://www.wearetheprey.com/]   “No other book so comprehensively covers the details of COVID-19 criminal conduct as well as its origins in a network of global predators seeking wealth and power at the expense of human freedom and prosperity, under cover of false public health policies.”   ~ Robert F Kennedy, Jr Author of #1 bestseller The Real Anthony Fauci and Founder, Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense.

Dr. Peter Breggin Hour 11.05.25

There is something about a journey. Whether it is a long-anticipated vacation or an emergency that calls you away from all that is familiar, a journey is a new beginning. One moment you’re in your own home, surrounded by all the things that have collected to facilitate your daily activities and routines. The next moment, you’re in a car, a train, an airplane flying across the landscape toward the unknown. Sooner or later, we each find ourselves on a journey. This life teaches us again and again that what is familiar today can be upended in a moment. We sew the fabric of our lives to cradle and support us, but the threads are fragile, and eventually, there will be a tear. Patterns vanish, routines deteriorate, and we are suddenly forced to re-create what we need—in effect to re-create who we are. It is at those moments that we rediscover our hidden reserves as we consciously evaluate and determine what, indeed, matters most in our lives. Tragedy and disasters can also offer unanticipated blessings. In a generous act of grace and kindness, our guest on The Breggin Hour invited Peter Breggin to share his perspectives on being a head injury patient. After over 60 years of helping patients and vulnerable persons to understand and overcome head injuries and brain damage from psychiatric drugs, electroshock, and lobotomy, Peter suffered a stroke in August of 2025. The damage has been serious enough that the Breggins have traveled to Florida to be evaluated for participation in a cutting-edge program for patients with brain injuries of various kinds. For the Breggins, Peter’s injury and the symptoms he is experiencing are so fresh that he has not talked publicly before about his subjective reactions to the experience. That changed when this week’s guest, screenwriter Steve Miller, said, “This is fascinating—please tell me more.” Steve Miller has been a writer for film and TV for over 25 years—he lives and breathes stories, and knew he was hearing a unique one in this interview. A personally thoughtful and caring man, he is also wide awake to the evils of our world and the nefarious goals of globalists who want to control the world. Covid Unmasked: 2020 and Beyond is Steve Miller’s excellent documentary, which exposes the underlying motives and hidden puppet masters who brought us all to the brink of global economic disaster while setting in motion the events of the Covid era that continue to claim lives today. With this broad shared background, the conversation turned to the personal. What followed may be the most intimate hour with the Breggins ever recorded.   ______   Learn more about Dr. Peter Breggin's work: https://breggin.com/ [https://breggin.com/]   See more from Dr. Breggin's long history of being a reformer in psychiatry: https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control [https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control]   Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, the how-to manual @ https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/ [https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/]   Get a copy of Dr. Breggin's latest book: WHO ARE THE “THEY” - THESE GLOBAL PREDATORS? WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PLANS FOR US? HOW CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST THEM? Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey Get a copy: https://www.wearetheprey.com/ [https://www.wearetheprey.com/]   “No other book so comprehensively covers the details of COVID-19 criminal conduct as well as its origins in a network of global predators seeking wealth and power at the expense of human freedom and prosperity, under cover of false public health policies.”   ~ Robert F Kennedy, Jr Author of #1 bestseller The Real Anthony Fauci and Founder, Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense.

Dr. Peter Breggin Hour 10.15.25 - Who will continue civilization?

Birthrates are declining worldwide, including in the US, Canada, and European nations, with some projections forecasting [https://news.sky.com/story/global-birth-rates-crisis-people-do-still-want-to-have-children-but-many-cant-heres-why-13381290] that 97% of the world’s countries will have fertility rates too low to sustain their populations by 2100. This population deficit not only threatens economic growth and the well-being of older members but also limits opportunities for younger people to develop in thriving communities. These population declines are an overall disaster for civilization, human well-being, and survival. In a fascinating conversation with journalist Elizabeth Nickson, [https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/] we examined some of the greatest pressures and roadblocks faced by young women today that lead to the deferment or rejection of parenthood.

Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 10.29.25 America, American boys, and Jesus: Where did their power go?

Our once robust and brash young country has been lassoed and roped into a Gordian knot over the last hundred years or so. We are only beginning to see a shift since Trump authorized Tom Holman to implement return-to-sender policies on the millions of illegal aliens who have crossed into the US. Likewise, our American boys have been burdened with so many false concepts about culturally acceptable rules of conduct, while being viewed with negative expectations, that many boys and young men have built a shell for themselves and crawled inside. In earlier episodes, we have examined issues faced by American girls, here, here, and here. And there are many. Today, we spoke with J. J. Carrell, a former Border Patrol Officer, patriotic American, and Christian. He voiced what we believe many Americans feel: Can traditional America ever be recovered? Can the Constitutional Republic created by our Founders be rescued? And most importantly, who will do the rescuing? The election of President Trump has provided us all with an opportunity to turn the American ship around and begin the process of reclaiming America. But one man cannot rescue the entire nation. And like a great ocean liner, the ship of America won’t be able to turn on a dime. Saving America will take decades. Saving America is a calling and an odyssey that many generations will need to embrace if it is to come to pass. Our generations—we grandparents, and J.J.’s generation currently raising young men and women, can fight to strip away the false expectations, the unscientific cultural concepts (there really are only two sexes), the barbaric medical and technological procedures, from genital mutilation of our young to electroshock and psychosurgery, various implants, and technical advances [https://breggin.com/article-detail/post_detail/Elon-Musk-Rolls-Out-His-Neurolink-Technology-for-the-Physical-Control-of-Brains-and-Minds] designed to alter humans into transhumans—who despite the claims are neither “superior” “superintelligent” or “transcendent” to natural human beings. Our children and our children’s children will still be fighting to fully reclaim liberty and freedom to be their normal, strongest selves. They need the lies stripped away and truths about human nature affirmed. The masculine nature of boys becoming men needs to be affirmed and honored. Strong, courageous, tenacious men, able to protect and care for a family, are needed. Likewise, the miraculous natural gift of conception, birth, and nurturing the next generation, which is the endowment of girls, needs to be acknowledged and respected. Strong, prevailing, nurturing women, able to raise their next generation within a core family with their husbands by their sides, will be needed. America needs to cut the Gordian Knot of globalist totalitarian [https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/predatory-rulers-moving-the-world?r=ae2lk] assault on strong individuals and families: Strand by strand, slicing regulations, false concepts, debilitating expectations, demoralizing concepts, and destructive laws. We may not get this done, but this is what we must attempt to save America.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 9.24.25

The assassination of American Charlie Kirk has led much of our society to examine what a civilization is and to ask what creates a civilized society. Charlie Kirk was a strong and determined advocate for Judeo-Christian values, committed marriage, and the well-being of children and families. One of the most destructive moral influences upon American civilization was, and continues to be, Alfred Kinsey [https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/alfred-kinsey-redefining-agony-as?r=ae2lk]. In the span of his lifetime, Kinsey managed (with the aid of Deep State forces through the Intelligence services) to extensively upend the ethical forces that held in check baser human instincts. Civilization is in many ways the management of human appetites to maximize freedom for all members of the community. The mores of American culture in the 1940s, rooted in Judeo-Christian values, emphasized the respect and even sacredness of marriage, as well as the encouragement and affirmation of marital fidelity. Kinsey tore through these traditional [https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/alfred-kinsey-redefining-agony-as] values with a chainsaw—promoting promiscuity [https://www.amazon.com/Kinsey-Crimes-Consequences-Queen-Scheme/dp/0966662415/138-4019834-0763054?pd_rd_w=igwWy&content-id=amzn1.sym.c5dee08d-b11d-4c8c-b272-714fd8f96f22:amzn1.symc.1ce8a41e-053b-4bdc-9570-9f81c17d9d85&pf_rd_p=c5dee08d-b11d-4c8c-b272-714fd8f96f22&pf_rd_r=T2NJB2XSRZCADFNE69AK&pd_rd_wg=FVb6f&pd_rd_r=9e490e83-6414-4158-af28-c2f4c252bf44&pd_rd_i=0966662415&psc=1] and declaring that if a sexual act could be physically performed, it was acceptable and natural. He included both adult sex with children, as well as sex with animals, in this definition. Kinsey’s books: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male [https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Behavior-Human-Male-Anniversary/dp/0253067464?crid=22HLHGC0NU7JH&keywords=Alfred+Kinsey&qid=1707616185&sprefix=alfred+kinsey,aps,110&sr=8-9](1948), followed by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JHWHCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP3&dq=Celebrating+the+50th+anniversary+of+Sexual+behavior+in+the+human+female&ots=JZ3yXsHkkg&sig=MBHPTRVEbR_jLLDCfxxeEn7A3JY#v=onepage&q=Celebrating%2520the%252050th%2520anniversary%2520of%2520Sexual%2520behavior%2520in%2520the%2520human%2520female&f=false] (1953), included chapters purporting to prove the sexuality of infants and prepubescent children [https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Honor-Innocence-Betrayed-Scientist/dp/1937102025?crid=2K1TZO680QNGA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wMWTqxn7S7I0HhiStYtwcxuv1ScL0H2i03WUPlgW7JV0tBll2ZMFzggcXf9sYjYYIK5_4u0VfsEuPjI2cnvQu02EbRc1euHrrIkF11b0kB3gYKVXx1o2GG3cClDsJM2K0-pE2lgib6Ytyp5UJoKZrceVSLTxy7AAjDt93jzBU7bXEEusGSwhDffK9MY2nSejBF4IQ1P2vJ_LT0xjMgErO-gDn8YDy1apCA496w9QPJk.-SFMFfLUjobScRnpoocRVmoDpm7HiFnT9qfBZTybfb4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Judith+Reisman&qid=1709173382&sprefix=judith+reisman,aps,174&sr=8-1] with charts documenting what he called children’s orgasms. His sources for large portions of his data were predatory pedophiles, from whom Kinsey collected data for his hypotheses rather than reporting them to the authorities. These pedophiles, in turn, have been protected by the Kinsey Institute, a nonprofit affiliated with Indiana University. The data he collected from the sources he protected has continued to be locked away, supposedly to protect the privacy of the reporters who were abusing children. What an irony! That Kinsey, who advocates the removal of all boundaries upon sexuality, has one ironclad boundary of privacy protecting his research against the independent examination of the foundational sources of his data, including child abusers. Kinsey’s work inspired Hugh Hefner and spawned the entire Playboy empire, leading to the explosion of pornography, pedophilia, and the hook-up culture so prevalent in America today, and shaking the civilizational foundation of marriage and family to its core. The unraveling of the American family has, in turn, fractured the foundations of our very civilization. Even worse, Kinsey encouraged sexual acts and engagement between adults and children, including infants. As we reported in our earlier column on Alfred Kinsey: The [Kinsey] institute contains, in its archives, the stories of hundreds, if not thousands, of acts of sexual abuse against children. Many of these accounts involve the physical rape of very small children. These reports include precise details of the children crying, resisting, and making other efforts to fend off their assailants. These details are included because Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Father of the Sexual Revolution, believed in collecting detailed “scientific” accounts of every kind of sexual act between human beings, including violent sexual acts committed upon children by adults. On their official website, the Kinsey Institute denies that Kinsey and his colleagues hired, collaborated with, or persuaded people to carry out experiments on children. But Dr. Reisman’s research and evidence, along with the evidence of others, prove otherwise. Furthermore, a 1995 Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/12/08/kinsey-report-fast-and-loose/b058e754-34c5-4c62-87fb-7ee1cd42d625/] article [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1995/12/08/kinsey-report-fast-and-loose/b058e754-34c5-4c62-87fb-7ee1cd42d625/] reported: Yesterday, the director of the Kinsey Institute revealed that Kinsey’s conclusions on the sexuality of young children were based not on scientific study but on the secret history of a single pedophile who kept a diary of his experiences with 317 pre-adolescent boys. The Kinsey Institute director in 1995 was John Bancroft, who “clarified” Kinsey’s research approach at a press conference in Washington, DC, called by a Representative of Congress investigating Kinsey’s methods of research, their legality, conclusions, and effects upon school curricula and American culture. Bancroft went on to declare that no one will ever know what happened to the children whose orgasms are reported in the Kinsey Tables in the Sexual Behavior of the Human Male. The Post article continued quoting Bancroft: “There was no contact with any of the boys by anyone at the institute, only with the man’s notes,” he said. The institute “has never carried out sexual experiments on children.” As for the pedophile — who was not paid — he is catalogued at the Kinsey Institute under a pseudonym, which could be decoded but will not be if Bancroft has anything to do with it. “The man is long dead. He died around 1955,” the director said. The 50th Anniversary edition of the Sexual Behavior in the Human Female includes eighteen closely typed pages in justification and defense of Kinsey’s work, written by the Director of the Institute at that time, John Bancroft. Kinsey believed in a concept he termed ‘total sexual outlet.’ Bancroft declared: The fact that he [Kinsey] combined orgasms from six principal sources, masturbation, nocturnal emissions, heterosexual petting, heterosexual intercourse, homosexual relations, and intercourse with animals, to derive his ‘total sexual outlet,’ in no way means that he regarded each of these sources of orgasm as of equal value in social or interpersonal or emotional terms, for either men or women. His lack of comment on the moral value of any form of sexual behavior was central to his non-judgmental approach, without which his long-running project, which he envisioned as continuing for many years longer than it did, would not have been viable. We regret that he made no such moral comparisons, because without them he describes sexual behavior in something of a moral vacuum which others have been quick to fill with their own interpretations of Kinsey’s moral standpoint… Bancroft goes on to discuss critics of Kinsey’s work. What he fails to observe is that in this vacuum, which he describes, many new liberties and assumptions were indeed taken, and many moral protections, however imperfect, which had been in place for generations for women and for all children (and for that matter, animals) were gravely weakened. Most egregiously, Kinsey declared in 1953 in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female: There are, of course, instances of adults who have done physical damage to children with whom they have attempted sexual contact… But these cases are in the minority, and the public should learn to distinguish such serious contacts from other adult contacts that are not likely to do the child any appreciable harm if the child’s parents do not become disturbed. Our radio guest, Rhonda Miller, is CEO of Purple for Parents [https://purpleforparentsindiana.org/], a nonprofit dedicated to protecting children from the harmful agendas in government schools, from indoctrination to sexual grooming. She is leading members of her organization along with other international groups with shared goals to lobby in Washington, DC in order to finally have the Kinsey Institute and the institute’s foundational sex research locked away within the institute fully investigated. Listeners who wish to support and follow her work can go to purple4parents.org [https://purpleforparentsindiana.org/].     ______   Learn more about Dr. Peter Breggin's work: https://breggin.com/ [https://breggin.com/]   See more from Dr. Breggin's long history of being a reformer in psychiatry: https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control [https://breggin.com/Psychiatry-as-an-Instrument-of-Social-and-Political-Control]   Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, the how-to manual @ https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/ [https://breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/]   Get a copy of Dr. Breggin's latest book: WHO ARE THE “THEY” - THESE GLOBAL PREDATORS? WHAT ARE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PLANS FOR US? HOW CAN WE DEFEND AGAINST THEM? Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey Get a copy: https://www.wearetheprey.com/ [https://www.wearetheprey.com/]   “No other book so comprehensively covers the details of COVID-19 criminal conduct as well as its origins in a network of global predators seeking wealth and power at the expense of human freedom and prosperity, under cover of false public health policies.”   ~ Robert F Kennedy, Jr Author of #1 bestseller The Real Anthony Fauci and Founder, Chairman and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense.