In this piece for Alternet, psychologist Bruce Levine explores why Mental Health Professionals oftenĀ diagnose anti-authoritarians with mental illness.
‘We are increasingly marketing drugs that essentially “cure” anti-authoritarians.’
“In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by 1) how many of those diagnosed are essentiallyĀ anti-authoritarians;Ā and 2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them are not.”