A Profession Without Reason by Bruce E Levine

A Profession Without Reason by Bruce E Levine

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.

Bruce E. Levine is a regular contributor to CounterPunch, Truthout, Z Magazine, AlterNet, Salon, and the Huffington Post. He is a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, and he is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry and on the scientific advisory board of the National Center for Youth Law. A longtime activist in the mental health treatment reform movement, he is a member of the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry. His books include Get Up, Stand Up; Surviving America's Depression Epidemic; and Commonsense Rebellion.

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ISBN 13	9781849354608
ISBN 10	184935460X
Title	A Profession Without Reason
Author	Bruce E Levine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	AK Press
Year published	2022-10-06
Number of pages	270
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