Annual Conference
Dr. Peter Breggin’s EmpathicTherapy.org Welcomes You



Outstanding Topics and Conference Presenters Include:

~Learn to enjoy your work and make the most of your abilities in helping others
~Learn to be an effective 'first responder' for persons in emotional crisis
~How to bring out your best when working with children, adults, and families
~How to love your work as a therapist, counselor and teacher
~Core principles of counseling, therapy and teaching
~Empathic strategies in classroom manaqement
~How to successfully conduct your own drug-free patient-oriented private practice: It’s
easier than you think and you can do it part-time at low cost
~How to help yourself and others to raise happier and more effective children
~How to reach and to teach difficult children.
~Understanding and communicating the dangers of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs
~How to practice and to teach without psychiatric diagnoses and drugs
~How to safely stop taking psychiatric medications.
~How the principles of therapy and the principles of a good life are one and the same
~How to develop a clinic


Best Selling Authors:  Peter Breggin MD, Charles Whitefield MD, Howard Glasser,
Melanie Sears,  Wendy West Pidkaminy, Pamela Glasner, Hemant Thakur MD

International Experts: Alberto Fergusson, MD, Bart Billings, PhD, Peter Breggin MD

Professors and Educators:  Gerald Porter PhD, Adrianne Johnson PhD, Barbara Streets, PhD, Rosemary Barnes, PhD

Innovative Practitioners: Douglas Smith MD, Deborah Denome, Cindy Perlin,
Daniel Mackler, Michael Shaw MD, Sarton Weinraub PhD

Advocates: Sharon Hoffman, Mathy Downing, Attorney Karl Protil, Susan Schellenberg




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 will no longer be involved in its conferences.

Copyright 2010 Peter R. Breggin, MD
Bring out the best in yourself!
Join us at our Conference!  April 8-10, 2011
Syracuse, New York

Dr. Peter Breggin's new Empathic Therapy organization is sponsoring an exciting, informative and inspiring conference April 8-10, 2011 in Syracuse, NY and will feature presentations by Dr. Breggin and some of his closest colleagues and exceptional speakers.  The theme of Bring Out the Best In Yourself! relates both to individual growth and life improvement as well as specifically addressing ways that counselors, social workers, psychotherapists, teachers, psychiatrists and others can be their very best professionally with their clients, patients and students. The conference is oriented to serve the needs of professionals including offering continuing education credits.  Interested laypersons, and individuals and families who have encountered biopsychiatry and are seeking better ways of improving and enhancing their lives are also welcome.

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 October conference.   Peter Breggin and many of his closest colleagues will be holding their new annual spring conference April 8-10, 2011.  Details are available at the new Breggin reform website: http://www.empathictherapy.org.