Robert Whitaker

Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

May 3rd, 2025

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 […]

Posted in Bruce Levine Blog | Tagged anti-psychiatry, Awais Aftab, Cooper Davis, establishment psychiatry, Joanna Moncrieff, Laura Delano, psychiatry criticism, Robert Whitaker

Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love

March 28th, 2025

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 […]

Posted in Bruce Levine Blog | Tagged Ellen Barry, establishment psychitry, Laura Delano, New York Times, NYT, Robert Whitaker, Unshrunk