A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry - Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking and Radical Enlightenment - Softcover

Levine, Bruce E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184935460X ISBN 13: 9781849354608

Publisher: AK Press, 2022

Synopsis

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: 'Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working.' The field of psychiatry requires a completely fresh look, and Bruce E. Levine finds that needed perspective in the seventeenth-century works of Baruch Spinoza. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by his life and the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. With the help of Spinoza, freethinking, and radical enlightenment, A Profession Without Reason untangles and solves the crisis of contemporary psychiatry.

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About the Author

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 journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, and he is on the medical and scientific advisory board of the National Center for Youth Law. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: AK Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184935460X
• ISBN 13: 9781849354608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270