Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine

What Liberal Admonishers of Left Psychiatry Critics Get Wrong

CounterPunch September 9th, 2022

The primary reason why there are today so many Left-identified ex-psychiatric patients and practitioners such as myself—along with research scientists and investigative journalists—who are critical of the institution of psychiatry is that psychiatry has done an increasingly lousy job in helping people.

The Best Books for Freethinkers About Psychiatry

Shepherd August 28th, 2022

From Shepherd: Discover the Best Books.

Behind Rolling Stone’s Hatchet Job on a Psychiatrist Critical of Neoliberal Capitalism

CounterPunch August 11th, 2022

Welcome to the Twilight Zone of the political landscape of psychiatry, where faux-left liberals are clueless that they have unwittingly become right-wingers, where shameless right-wingers exploit anything in an attempt to hold on to their AR-15s, and where anti-authoritarian left critical thinkers know that if they are not careful—or even if they are—they will find […]

Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened?

Mad in America July 26th, 2022

Psychiatry has historically promoted dogma—not science—and dogma tends to be boring for freethinkers who can smell its odor even before they can deconstruct it. The challenge then is this: How can psychiatry be examined in a novel way that might intrigue freethinkers and critical thinkers of science, philosophy, politics, and history who would not ordinarily […]

Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry

CounterPunch July 7th, 2022

Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural. If a population believes that its […]

Coffee With Comrades: Episode 167: “Care without Fear” ft. Bruce E. Levine

Pearson Bolt interviews Bruce E. Levine to talk about his new book A Profession without Reason. June 9th, 2022