Bruce Levine
How Psychiatry Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers
Viewing depression as a “brain defect” rather than a “character defect” is supposed to reduce the stigma of depression, according to the American Psychiatric Association, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the rest of the mental health establishment. But any defect can be stigmatizing. What if depression is the result of neither a […]
How the “Brain Defect” Theory of Depression Stigmatizes Depression Sufferers
Viewing depression as a “brain defect” rather than a “character defect” is supposed to reduce the stigma of depression, according to the American Psychiatric Association, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the rest of the mental health establishment. But any defect can be stigmatizing. What if depression is the result of neither a […]
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment Technology is worshipped in U.S. culture, but when it comes to transforming depression and emotional suffering, is this predilection for technology justified? Technology worship means a reverence for machines, manipulations, and manuals designed to control. It also means valuing the objective and the quantifiable over the […]
How Technology Worship Keeps Americans Ignorant about Depression Treatment
Technology is worshipped in U.S. culture, but when it comes to transforming depression and emotional suffering, is this predilection for technology justified? Technology worship means a reverence for machines, manipulations, and manuals designed to control. It also means valuing the objective and the quantifiable over the subjective and the non-quantifiable, and prizing the synthetic versus […]
Nelson Algren, Phil Ochs, Marginalization, the Mental Health Industry Racket, and the Occupy Movement
How America’s Obsession With Money Deadens Us
A preoccupation with money is nothing new in our culture, but have Americans become even more “money-centric,” and does this deaden us, making us incapable of resisting injustices? A money-centric society is one in which money is at the center of virtually all thoughts, decisions, and activities. While capitalism certainly gives rise to money-centrism, any […]
How America’s Obsession With Money Deadens Us
A preoccupation with money is nothing new in our culture, but have Americans become even more “money-centric,” and does this deaden us, making us incapable of resisting injustices? A money-centric society is one in which money is at the center of virtually all thoughts, decisions, and activities. While capitalism certainly gives rise to money-centrism, any […]
Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem
In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them […]
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill, and How This Helps America’s Illegitimate Authorities Stay in Charge
In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them […]
Will the Young Rise Up and Fight Their Indentured Servitude to the Student Loan Industry?
In October 2011, the White House announced, “Currently, more than 36 million Americans have federal student loan debt.” By the end of 2011, student loan debt had exceeded $1 trillion. Two-thirds of college seniors graduate with student loans, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. According to the The Project on Student Loan Debt, […]
