There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: "Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working." The field requires a completely fresh look, and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine—a man often at odds with his profession—enlists the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch de Spinoza to help work through the problem. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. Levine compares the radical/moderate divide among Enlightenment thinkers to a similar divergence between contemporary critics of psychiatry, siding historically with Spinoza in order to bring an equivalent intellectual force to bear upon our modern crisis and calling for new forms of free and enlightened thinking.
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A Profession Without Reason
The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry—Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment
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A Profession Without Reason
The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry—Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment
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Table of contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Freethinking
- Chapter 3: Fear
- Chapter 4: Ultimi Barbarorum
- Chapter 5: Science
- Chapter 6: Unethical
- Chapter 7: Two Bibles
- Chapter 8: Three Noble Lies?
- Chapter 9: Tolerance and Stigma
- Chapter 10: Brain Disease
- Chapter 11: Genetics
- Chapter 12: Coercion
- Chapter 13: Madness and Scientia Intuitiva
- Chapter 14: Icarus and Recovery
- Chapter 15: Pals and Peers
- Chapter 16: Freedom from Bondage
- Chapter 17: Tractatus Psychiatrico-Politicus
- Chapter 18: Bento’s Conclusions
- NOTES
- Copyright
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