Madness and Medicine - Featuring Dr. Peter Breggin - 1977

"Madness and Medicine" has been suppressed and Locked Away for Decades...

“Madness and Medicine” is a 1977 special presentation by ABC which interviewed psychiatrists, former medical patients, other medical specialists and opened the door just a crack to the awful realities of the psychiatric abuse of people in emotional crisis, the barbaric condition of mental hospitals, and some of the most brutal psychiatric “treatments” including electroshock and psychosurgery (the physical destruction of healthy brain tissue.)

The film helped to bring greater exposure to the mental patients’ rights movement as well as to Dr. Peter Breggin and other psychiatrists calling for psychiatric reform in the 1970s.

“Madness and Medicine” was one of the most important and revealing specials to be carried by the legacy media in the 1970s, prior to the stranglehold which psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry established in the 80’s and 90’s. Dr. Peter Breggin documented the growth and influence of Big Pharma in his bestseller, Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry.” Toxic Psychiatry ripped off the façade of modern psychiatry, exposing the graft, corruption and profit motives of psychiatric care and revealing the devastating and sometimes deadly damage inflicted upon patients suffering emotional crises.

“Madness and Medicine” alerted millions to the hazards of psychiatry before being suppressed and locked away under copyright infringement threats for decades. See it now, copy it, and share it widely.

Featuring:
Peter R. Breggin MD, Psychiatrist
D.M. O'Conner Psychiatrist
Dr. Jonathan Cole Psychopharmacologist
Judi Chamberlin, Advocate, former patient (deceased)
Ted Chabaskinski, Attorney, former patient
Leonard Cohen, former patient (deceased)
MaryLou Haddett, former patient
Arlene Sen, former patient
Pete Calagna, former patient
Dr. David Richmond, "Dr. Caligari"
Dr. Robert Gibson, President American Psychiatric Association (circa 1977)
Dr. Seymour Kety, Psychobiologist
Dr. Lee Coleman, Psychiatrist
Dr. Paul Blachly, Psychiatrist
Dr. Robert Grimm, Neurologist
Marilyn Rice, former patient
Ellen (?) former patient
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, Ward Psychiatrist