Tag: Bruce Levine
Hopeless But Not Broken: From George Carlin to Protest Music
From CounterPunch: Although people are often pathologized and shamed for feeling hopeless, hopelessness is sometimes a natural reaction to an oppressive political climate. George Carlin...
Video: Bruce Levine on “The Anti-Authoritarian Movement to Rehumanize Mental Health”
Films for Action is now hosting a video by MIA contributor Bruce Levine. In his presentation, taped at his Oct 9, 2015 National Empowerment Center talk,...
ï»ż The “Institutional Corruption” of Psychiatry: A Conversation With Authors...
Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove discuss their new book Psychiatry Under the Influence in an interview with psychologist and social critic Bruce Levine for Truthout. In the book, Whitaker and Cosgrove apply the institutional corruption framework, developed by Larry Lessig, to psychiatry and determine that âjust as elected officials develop dependency on special interests and become beholden to these funders instead of the citizenry,â psychiatry has âhad its social mission subverted by drug companies as well as by the psychiatry guild's self-preservation and expansionism needs.â
Defeating Goliath: Mental Health is a Social Justice Issue, and People...
While I have lived just a few miles away from the Capitol for the last fifteen years, I have been unsure about getting involved in legislative advocacy. Iâve been intimidated by the complexity of the legislative process, and more inclined to leave it up to others who I perceive as having more experience than me. And honestly, I havenât felt very hopeful about effecting change. My cynicism had turned to âlearned helplessness.â And then along came a mental health bill so destructive, so regressive, that I had to step out of my uncomfortable comfort zone.