Dr. Peter Breggin's
Center for the Study of Empathic
Therapy, Education & Living
Bring Out the Best In Yourself!
The Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living
has a stellar group of Advisory Council members
who are participating in the launch of our new
organization and the expansion of our reform work.
The new Advisory Council for the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living already includes more than fifty outstanding members with more than seventeen medical doctors (including twelve psychiatrists and two neurologists), four present or former chairpersons of graduate departments of counseling, members of the clergy, public advocates, active duty military, veterans, and professionals and professors in the fields of psychology, counseling, psychotherapy, social work, nursing, addiction and education. Meet them here.
Peter R. Breggin, MD, Director
Ginger Ross Breggin, Executive Director
Advisory Council Members
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD ~ Neurology
Bart Billings, PhD ~ Psychology
Doug Bower, PhD ~ Counseling & Clergy
Pat Bracken, MD ~ Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow, PhD~Psychotherapy
Joanne Cacciatore, PhD ~ Bereavement Trauma Specialist
Dorothy Cassidy, MEd ~ Special Education
Ty C. Colbert, PhD ~ Psychology
Thomas P Cushman, PhD ~ Counseling & Education
Nadine De Santo, EdS ~ School Psychology
Anthony DiGiovanni, MD ~ Psychiatry
Mathy Downing ~ Drug Safety Advocate
Kathryn Douthit, PhD ~ Counseling and Human Development
M.N.G (Graham) Dukes, M.D. ~ Medical Ethics and the Law
Alberto Fergusson, MD ~ Psychiatry
Robert Foltz, PsyD ~ Psychology
Mark Foster, DO ~ Family Medicine physician
Pamela Glasner ~ Author
Howard Glasser, MA ~ Psychotherapy & Education
William Glasser, MD ~ Psychiatry
Richard F. Gottlieb, MSW ~ Psychotherapy & Social Work
Robert J Grimm, MD ~ Neurology
Ross Halpern, PhD ~ Psychology & Chronic Pain Specialist
Adrianne Johnson, PhD ~ Counseling & Education
Bob Johnson, MD ~ Psychiatry
Bertram Karon, PhD ~ Psychology
Jennifer L Kinzie, MS, LMHC~ Counseling
Terry Lynch, MD ~ Psychotherapy & General Practice
Mary Maddock ~ Advocate & Psychiatric Survivor
Jodi Weinstein Mullen, PhD ~ Counselor & Educator
Brian J Pidkaminy, MA, MBA ~ Military Chaplain
Wendy West Pidkaminy, LCSW ~ Social Work
Gerald Porter, PhD ~ Counseling & Education
Dee Ray, PhD ~ Counseling and Education
Elizabeth Root, MSW ~ Social Work
Olga Runciman, BSc, RN ~ Psychiatric Nurse
Jay Salwen, MD ~ Radiology
Melanie Sears, RN MBA ~ Psychiatric Nursing
Michael Shaw, MD ~ Obstetrics & Gynecology
Stuart Shipko, MD ~ Psychiatry
Rebecca Shipman Hurst, MA ~ Human Services
Douglas Smith, MD ~ Psychiatry
John A. Snyder,EdD., Psychologist ~ Insight Oriented Psychotherapy and Supervision
Tony Stanton, MD ~ Psychiatry
Barbara F. Streets, PhD, LP ~ Counseling
Grace Karen Sweet ~ Advocate
Hemant Thakur, MD ~ Psychiatry
Tom and Diane Vande Burgt ~ Advocates for Military and Veterans
Frank van Meerendonk ~ Consumer Activist
Clemmont E. Vontress, PhD ~ Counseling
Sarton Weinraub, PhD ~ Psychology
Piet Westdijk, MD ~ Psychiatry
Barbara Harris Whitfield, RRT CMT ~ Author
Charles L Whitfield, MD ~ Addiction
J. Diederik Wolsak, RPC, MPCP ~ Counseling
Peter R. Breggin, MD is no longer affiliated with the Center for the Study of Psychiatry, informally known as International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, which he founded and led from 1972-2002, and Dr. Breggin is no longer involved in its conferences.
Copyright 2011-2012 Peter R. Breggin, MD
