- Bruce Levine
Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical
psychologist in private practice inCincinnati, Ohio . He has been in practise for more than two decades.Fact|date=October 2007Levine's most recent book is "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy" (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007), which argues that by not seriously confronting societal sources of depression, American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution. The book provides an alternate approach that encompasses the whole of our humanity, society, and culture, and which redefines depression (as a problematic strategy to shut down pain) in a way that makes enduring transformation more likely.
Levine is also the author of "Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations and a World Gone Crazy" (New York-London: Continuum, 2003), a protest book. The 26 alphabetically ordered chapters of "Commonsense Rebellion" detail Levine's contention that the high national rates of
mental illness in theUnited States are really just natural reactions (e.g., discontent and disconnectedness) to the oppression of what he terms an "institutional society," which he argues causes many to break down psychologically. An earlier edition was released in2001 with the subtitle "Debunking Psychiatry, Confronting Society — An A to Z Guide to Rehumanizing Our Lives".Levine is a regular contributor to "Z Magazine" and "The Huffington Post" and his articles have appeared in "Adbusters," "The Ecologist" and many other publications. His website is www.brucelevine.net
Dr. Levine is a member of
MindFreedom International , and on the Advisory Council of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP).ee also
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Anti-psychiatry External links
* [http://www.depressionisachoice.com/essays/failure.html DepressionIsAChoice.com] - 'A history of failure: Author and psychologist Bruce Levine pummels psychiatry, psychotropic drugs and the role both may have played in the case of Andrea Yates', Amy Benfer (July 11, 2001)
* [http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/feattalvi_141_p.html LiP Magazine] - 'Mad, Mad Nation: Mental Illness and the Drugging of Rebellious Tendencies', Silja J. A. Talvi (Interview of Bruce Levine, October 29, 2001)
* [http://www.radpsynet.org/journal/vol3-1/melstark.htm RadPsyNet.org] - 'A review of "Commonsense Rebellion"', Mel Starkman
* [http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/march02levine.htm ZMag.org] - 'Psychiatric Medications, Illicit Drugs, & Alcohol', Bruce Levine
* [http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2004/levine0504.html ZMag.org] - 'Eli Lilly, Zyprexa, and the Bush Family: the Diseasing of our Malaise', Bruce Levine (May, 2004)
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