A Profession Without Reason

A Profession Without Reason
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Publisher : AK Press
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781849354615
ISBN-13 : 1849354618
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Book Synopsis A Profession Without Reason by : Bruce E. Levine

Download or read book A Profession Without Reason written by Bruce E. Levine and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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