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...group, people against Psychosurgery (PAP), tentatively scheduled a forum for may 4. Participants will include Dr. Peter A. Breggin '58, professor at the Washington School of Psychology, a staunch opponent of all surgery that modifies behavior...
There are those who believe that brain surgery has sinister implications. Dr. Peter Breggin, a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist, thinks that any operation that alters the personality partially kills the individual and should therefore be outlawed. He also suggests that doctors are operating on the emotions, indiscriminately calming down prisoners, mental patients and hyperkinetic children to make them easier to handle, and tranquilizing neurotic housewives...
...grant last June by the Institute and funds from local groups financed the preparation of the yet unpublished report by Carter C. Umbarger '59, James S. Dalsimer '59, Andrew Morrison '58, and Peter Breggin '58, members of the PBH committee...
Tentatively titled The College Student and the Mental Patient: An Analysis of a Volunteer Program, the book was started last spring by Andrew P. Morrison '58, Peter R. Breggin '58, Carter P. Unbarger '59 and Dalsimer...
Three students suggested the course to Talcott Parsons, chairman of the Social Relations Department, last spring. The three were: Peter R. Breggin '58 and Michael C. Dohan '58, co-chairmen of the PBH mental hospital program, and Andrew P. Morrison '58, head of the program's case work committee...