Bruce Levine
Celebrating Lenny Bruce’s 100th Birthday: “The World is Sick and I’m the Doctor”
At the time of his death, Bruce was blacklisted by almost every venue in the United States, as owners feared that they too would be arrested for obscenity. One of the New York district attorneys who prosecuted Bruce’s last 1964 obscenity case, Assistant District Attorney Vincent Cuccia, later admitted, “We drove him into poverty and bankruptcy and then murdered him. I watched him gradually fall apart. . . . We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill him.”
Celebrating Lenny Bruce’s 100th Birthday: “The World is Sick and I’m the Doctor”
At the time of his death, Bruce was blacklisted by almost every venue in the United States, as owners feared that they too would be arrested for obscenity. One of the New York district attorneys who prosecuted Bruce’s last 1964 obscenity case, Assistant District Attorney Vincent Cuccia, later admitted, “We drove him into poverty and bankruptcy and then murdered him. I watched him gradually fall apart. . . . We all knew what we were doing. We used the law to kill him.”
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
This deterioration from bad science to no science has created a dilemma for critical thinkers. On the one hand, society today takes psychiatry’s claims more seriously than ever, and thus many critical thinkers may feel a social obligation to debunk its claims. However, given the obvious nonscientific nature of these claims, critical thinkers who become consumed by these cla
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
This deterioration from bad science to no science has created a dilemma for critical thinkers. On the one hand, society today takes psychiatry’s claims more seriously than ever, and thus many critical thinkers may feel a social obligation to debunk its claims. However, given the obvious nonscientific nature of these claims, critical thinkers who become consumed by these claims and by the social obligation to debunk them can find themselves intellectually impoverished.
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend
Many people from very different groups do not like establishment psychiatry. Some of them are my friends, however, some of them belong to authoritarian groups that I dislike as much as I dislike establishment psychiatry. Who are enemies of establishment psychiatry that are not my friends? What kind of dealings—if any—does it make sense to […]
Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend
Many people from very different groups do not like establishment psychiatry. Some of them are my friends, however, some of them belong to authoritarian groups that I dislike as much as I dislike establishment psychiatry. Who are enemies of establishment psychiatry that are not my friends? What kind of dealings—if any—does it make sense to […]
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its […]
Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its […]
Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and its Big Pharma partners, who in recent years could count on the mainstream media to ignore books and films that cost them status and business. However, the mainstream media, including the New […]
