# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-breggin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:58:22.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-breggin"
name: "Peter Breggin"
slug: "peter-breggin"
description: "Peter Roger Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services."
tagline: "American psychiatrist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Breggin_donnant_une_interview_par_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9conf%C3%A9rence_en_2022.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1936-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.250832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.breggin.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Peter Breggin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پیتر برققین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin"
    title: "Peter Breggin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin"
    title: "Peter Breggin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ピーター・ブレギン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin"
    title: "Peter Breggin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin"
    title: "Peter Breggin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Бреггин, Питер Роджер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2656715"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump