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Parents and other adults are the source of the problem with troubled children--not the "child monsters" whose mug shots we see on the evening news for school shootings, murders, and other tales of modern-day juvenile delinquency. That's the case made by Peter R. Breggin, a Maryland-based psychiatrist who has written widely on the overuse of psychoactive drug; in Reclaiming Our Children he takes aim at what he considers the root of all the trouble: today's families. Overly permissive parents, absentee fathers, working mothers, disconnected families--they all take the blame in Breggin's well-reasoned argument for renewing the importance of children in our lives.
The 1999 Columbine High School shootings figure prominently in Breggin's dissection of how society has abandoned its kids. He calls a White House conference held after the massacre a "missed opportunity" because politicians and health advisers were quick to blame the student shooters' actions on genetic and biochemical conditions beyond our control. As Breggin has written in many of his other books, he believes parents are too eager to turn to Prozac, Ritalin, and other chemical solutions for problems that should be sorted out with old-fashioned therapy. His accounts of treating young patients and their parents are delightful passages, though his diagnoses at times seem a bit simplistic. He offers self-help solutions near the end of the book, with suggestions on how parents can avoid serious conflicts with their kids. His views on child-rearing tactics sometimes go against the grain: he's not an advocate of time-outs as a means of discipline, for example. And his child-centered ideas may frustrate some parents in the throes of dealing with a 2-year-old's tantrums or a disrespectful teen's defiance. But his plea for making children a priority is a much-needed, logical voice that should cause some parents to pause and rethink their hectic lives. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
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In response to the eruption of teen violence in our schools, noted psychiatrist Peter Breggin delivers a passionately argued yet highly prescriptive blueprint for healing our relationships with our children
Children have been sliding down our priority list for too long. Busy parents give children leftover time-those few remaining minutes after work and recreation. Stressed teachers have put conformity and good grades ahead of stimulating children to love learning. The many adults who are motivated to do their best often find themselves at a loss over what to do. Our children, desperately missing us in their lives, look in the wrong places for solace and support. While only a few become openly violent, many more feel humiliated, frustrated, lonely, and angry.
From recasting our attitudes as parents and getting more involved in schools as volunteers, to restructuring class sizes, limiting homework, and fostering honest dialog about the pressures in our society, Reclaiming Our Children shows us the way to lasting peace with and among our children. Beginning with a dramatic shift in adult priorities that places children at the center of our lives, Peter Breggin demonstrates how we can create loving, disciplined, and inspiring relationships with all of our children.
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blame the parents?.......2006-10-08
Peter Breggin has written an hysterical attack on biopsychiatry and efforts to reduce stigma toward mental illness in children. "These extraordinary pronouncements rendered parents irrelevant, gutted family life of any meaning, and rejected common sense..." and "shut the door on children." He claims that there are not enough adults involved in children's lives, but then criticizes all the efforts made by the adults who are in fact involved with children. "So many (children) are signalling their suffering in so many ways, with hardly anyone taking notice." "Should the threat of violence lead the nation to turn its schools into mental hospitals - or are there better approaches...?"
His approach toward biopsychiatry is all-or-nothing: either you're one of THEM who "support drugging increased numbers of pupils" or you wholly reject "this celebration of psychiatric drugs." Breggin's approach leaves no room for any biological explanation for any mental illness. His laundry list of culprits includes parents, work stress, divorce, parental absence, personality clashes with parents, envy of parents or siblings, suburbia, technology, stressful academic experiences, religion, and "false accusations" of a biologically-based mental illness.
A compassionate critique of the mental health industry.......2003-12-04
Dr. Breggin has written extensively about the dangers of pharmaceutical treatment. In this book, he expands his discussion to look at the social context for how the society has been driven toward dangerous quick fixes rather than healing the society in ways that nurture children. One reviewer calls Breggin a Christian Scientist due to his anti-drug stance, when in reality he seems to have connections to the Jewish faith. Pure Christian Science opposes any medical drug treatments (which Breggin doesn't), including for seemingly purely physical symptoms and illnesses, since it sees physical reality as completely a product of mind and spirit. Breggin makes many valuable observations, although I perceive his parenting ideas as overly libertarian in some instances. Breggin also is unrealistic about the ability of ordinary psychotherapeutic and parenting methods to address very challenging child symptoms and difficulties. Theoretically, all mental health issues can be resolved without using medications to suppress symptoms. However, in our society few people have the knowledge or skills to facilitate holistic healing methods and access subconscious levels of mind that often trigger biochemical and psychological dysfunctions. Every cell, tissue, organ, and system in our bodies is guided by some level of consciousness, and even seeming "biochemical" issues can be resolved by accessing the consciousness that controls biological functioning and reorienting it to direct the body to function in a balanced manner. Since almost no one in the health care professions is trained to facilitate this, and only a minority of professionals are even trained to use nutrition, massage, hypnosis, and some other less invasive alternatives, then many people mistakenly assume that certain people absolutely have to be medicated. Breggin focuses mostly on the social ills of our society and the social and political context of mental health approaches to children, doing a solid job in this regard. However, a more expansive understanding of health, healing, and reality is needed to help more people realize the wealth of alternatives to drugs.
What kind of solution do we want?.......2003-03-15
Has "A reader from Wisconsin, United States" (first reviewer) actually read the book?
Do you want to chemically zonk children into performing and behaving up to our standards or do we want to find out the CAUSE of their problems and address that?
Mainstream medicine 99% of the time attacks symptoms, and not causes, does suppressing the cough, runny nose and fever of someone with a cold actually get rid of the virus or is it suppressing symptoms? It is our own immune system that destroys the invader not nyquill or benilyn. Once the virus is gone, then we become well again.
Also remember the cause MAY or MAY NOT be the child him/herself
Our childrens' safety is at stake!.......2000-06-05
Dr. Breggin presents a discussion of how American society does a disservice to our troubled school children by labelling them with psychiatric diagnoses and medicating them rather than critically examining the alienation and abandonment caused by family, schools, and communities. For parents, counselors, and educators, a most important chapter is one which offers suggestions for improving our schools. The book stresses that the most important factor in assisting the positive growth of our children is an individual child's relationship with a loving, mature adult. Even in impoverished communities, children can succeeed if a nuturing adult is there to counter negative effects of such adverse events as drugs, violence, and racism. The book is an alert for parents, counselors, and educators. If this information is acted upon by increasing numbers of caring adults, the quality of the lives of our precious youth should significantly improve. Breggin is but one man, but he
has high hopes for a whole nation.
A Valuable Message.......2000-04-12
Dr. Peter Breggin continues to express his belief in the innate ability of children to heal and move their lives in a positive direction. A key ingredient is for adults to recognize the need for children to have a lifestyle that allows them to be children. I don't believe Dr. Breggin blames parents for their children's problems. I think he sees them as responsible for creating a productive lifestyle for the child. In this day and age it is common for very young children(kindergarten and younger) to spend an eight to ten hour day away from parents and in school or childcare. While this allows parents to increase their income it may produce anxiety and distractiblity in the child. Dr. Breggin does an outstanding job of sorting out how the child is the victim of biopsychiatry while the culture continues to place materialism and income as a top priority. I was impressed by his case studies and his courage in speaking out against the label and medicate phenomena that places children at risk.
I have worked as an elementary counselor for the past twenty-three years. Currently I am in private practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor. In my twenty plus years of working with children and families I have found that strong parents who create a realistic structure for their children overcome most childhood problems. At the same time I have seen many families turn to psychiatric labels and medication only to discover their child was caught in a downward spiral of behavior and emotional problems.
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Biodiversity-related laws and institutions will be key mechanisms for attaining the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. As part of the national biodiversity planning process, legal and institutional profiles should be undertaken to ascertain which laws apply to and affect biodiversity and which institutions oversee legislation and portfolios which intersect with biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and benefit-sharing of genetic resources. Drawing on lessons learned in Bangladesh, Cuba, and The Gambia, this book provides legal practitioners with background information and a suggested analytical road map for reviewing their country's particular legal and institutional situation.
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Killing Our Oceans: Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life
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In his Ark of the Broken Covenant, Kunich showed that Earth's species are concentrated in 25 zones of ecological significance known as biodiversity hotspots, and that we'd go a long way toward saving many species from extinction if we'd focus our protective laws and regulations on these zones. In Killing Our Oceans he extends this analysis to the extraordinary pockets of life in the oceans that are similarly threatened. From coral reefs to recently discovered hydrothermal vents, the oceans contain vast numbers of endangered species. We are rapidly losing these unique, irreplaceable treasures, due in part to an appalling lack of efficacious safeguards. What's in it for us if we intervene to halt this mass extinction? Quite possibly the greatest medical, nutritional, and scientific breakthroughs in all of human history, just waiting to be discovered and harnessed--or forever lost along with the dying species that hold the keys to these secrets. Kunich examines in detail the applicable international laws as well as domestic laws of the nations with key marine resources, and demonstrates the abject failure of these measures to prevent or halt a mass extinction in our oceans. He concludes with a set of legal proposals that could start us down the road to preserving the marine hotspots and, with them, most of Earth's biodiversity. Legal solutions are not the only answer, but they are a beginning.
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An informative, must-read!.......2007-02-05
After his last book focused on terrestial hotspots (Ark of the Broken Covenant (2003)), Professor Kunich has now turned his attention on the extinction of marine life. Starting off with an easy-to-read and informative outline of the marine environment, followed by an analysis of how the current international and national legal frameworks designed to protect it fall short, he once again has brilliantly combined his prior background as a scientist with his current profession of the law. The book is filled with his folksy style of writing and comparison ("The forces that impede the noble parade of failed efforts. . . . are as potent and immutable as those that have conspired tragically for nearly a century to block the Chicago Cubs from a World Series championship.") that make it a joy to read. Devoting the last two chapters to a practical suggestion of how to protect the "marine hotspots" before it is too late, he calls on the United States to take the lead in this endeavor. Let's go!
It's this dual legal and science approach which makes for a top pick, here........2006-12-14
It's long been known humankind is destroying the oceans, and plenty of titles have surveyed the problem: what makes Killing Our Oceans: Dealing With the Mass Extinction of Marine Life different is an extension of the author's prior analysis of threatened hotspots from land to pockets of ocean life. Here also is a focus on international law and regulations pertaining to the ocean, along with efforts and language of domestic laws of nations with such key marine resources - another differentiation which makes KILLING OUR OCEANS a powerful recommendation not just for college-level science holdings, but collections concerned with international legal applications of social issues. It's this dual legal and science approach which makes for a top pick, here.
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Help save our fragile planet!.......2006-11-23
Everyone who cares about life on earth has to read this book. We are ruining the only planet we'll ever have, and it's rapidly becoming too late. Kunich explains the way to solve this enormous problem, and he does it with clarity and brilliance. This is the most important book I have ever read!
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