Category Archives: psychiatry

The Death Place

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

I didn’t kill myself yesterday—almost, though.  Almost. Here’s what happened:  about three and a half weeks ago I discovered that my glucose level was 423.  It’s supposed to be around 100.  I used to be able to control my diabetes … Continue reading →

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Surviving without Dr. Peter Breggin

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

— On Sat, 12/24/11, ginger breggin <grbreggin@hotmail.com> wrote: From: ginger breggin To: “Anne Woodword” Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011, 11:54 AM Dear Anne, This is Peter, as well as Ginger writing to you. Ginger and I both love your writing. … Continue reading →

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Breggin Conference 2013, and Why to Not Attend

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

I got a shock this morning.  While checking out the latest on Facebook, I came across a post from Peter R. Breggin, MD, about the Empathic Therapy Conference 2013.  Then I discovered that Dr. Peter and Mrs. Ginger Breggin have … Continue reading →

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Mind, Spirit or Soul

Posted on May 6, 2012 by

The issue is soul murder.  The psyche is defined as “mind, soul or spirit.”  Psychiatry has claimed the mind, but ignored the spirit or soul part.  If you are hospitalized on a medical floor then the hospital will give you a Holy … Continue reading →

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Solid Gray Gunk

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

Stephen King should envy me my dreams—so creative, so horrible. I wake and am dreaming, as always, about my sisters—one bank officer and two ordained Methodist ministers.  They never visited me.  They visited each other; they took vacations together; they … Continue reading →

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Women and Power

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

 I do not have bipolar disorder, type II. Students are being taught that bipolar disorder, type II, is a genetic, congenital condition consisting of episodes of depression alternating with periods of hypomania.  I have never had hypomania; I have had … Continue reading →

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Getting Fired

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

According to Richard Gottlieb, MSW and Diplomate with a capital D, last year at the Empathic Therapy Conference Dr. Peter Breggin said, “If you haven’t been fired at least once, you’re not doing your job.” Dick and I had been engaged in … Continue reading →

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“All we have to offer . . .”

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

THE EFFECTS OF MEDICATING OR NOT MEDICATING ON THE TREATMENT PROCESS Bertram P. Karon, Ph.D. Michigan State University and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council As Johanna Tabin (2003) pointed out, medicating or not medicating has meanings for psychoanalysts and patients, including transferences and countertransferences. Helpful are … Continue reading →

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SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY:  A User’s Manual by Anne C Woodlen This 60-page collection of 23 essays recently sold out at Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference and now is available for sale to you. “The great jazz bassist Ron Carter once … Continue reading →

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Life-Saving at the Empathic Therapy Conference

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

Before the “Treating the Psychiatrically Maltreated” workshop at the Empathic Therapy Conference, a young man approached me, hand outstretched.  He was slender, had long dark hair, and was wearing a black shirt and dark pants.  He thanked me for saving his … Continue reading →

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