Post-Woke #39: Does psychiatry do more harm than good? w/Bruce Levine
Plus: Monkeypox mania & a positive no-vax story
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Bruce E. Levine is a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession. He writes and speaks widely on how society, culture, politics, and psychology intersect. His forthcoming book is A Profession without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry―Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment (2022).
His previous book was Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian―Strategies, Tools, and Models (2018). Earlier books include: Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (2011); Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (2007); and Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy (2003).
You can learn more about him right here on his website.
Pre-order his book, A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry―Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment, right here! (Release date: July 5, 2022)
(Side note: To appreciate Bruce’s new book does not require any previous knowledge of Baruch Spinoza.)
Here’s the website Bruce referenced a couple of times: Mad in America
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Post-Woke #39: Does psychiatry do more harm than good? w/Bruce Levine