Bruce E. Levine

A Profession Without Reason (eBook, ePUB)

The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry-Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• A Profession Without Reason offers a description of psychiatry's crisis with respect to poor outcomes, its jettisoning of the DSM diagnostic bible, its retreat from its "chemical-imbalance theory" of mental illness, and other admissions, reversals, and controversies; and an explanation of how beliefs about mental illness are products of fear, which fuel superstitions and what Spinoza called "inadequate ideas"-confused and vague conceptualizations that are partially or completely false.
• Levine portrays a description of Spinoza's life that will intrigue readers unfamiliar with him as well as easily understandable explanations of key elements of his ideas that are relevant to contemporary psychiatry.
• Levine's professional experience as a clinical psychologist that combines not only three decades of patient care and extensive knowledge of the empirical research but a personal familiarity of radically enlightened mental health professionals and former patients-a familiarity that will give readers access to a fascinating underground movement which offers alternatives to psychiatry with respect to paradigms and remedies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849354615
• Artikelnr.: 62497599

Autorenporträt

Bruce E. Levine is a practicing clinical psychologist and author. His books include Resisting Illegitimate Authority and Surviving America's Depression Epidemic. He is a regular contributor to CounterPunch, Truthout, and Mad in America, and his articles have been published in the New York Times, Skeptic, Salon, AlterNet, Adbusters, The Ecologist, High Times, and Yes!. Levine is on the editorial advisory board of the National Center for Youth Law.