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

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: "Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working." The field requires a completely fresh look, and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine-a man often at odds with his profession-enlists the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch de Spinoza to help work through the problem. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. Levine compares the radical/moderate divide among Enlightenment thinkers to a similar divergence between contemporary critics of psychiatry, siding historically with Spinoza in order to bring an equivalent intellectual force to bear upon our modern crisis and calling for new forms of free and enlightened thinking.

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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.