A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry--Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment

by Bruce E. Levine

Book Overview

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: "Whatever we've been doing for five decades, it ain't working." The field of psychiatry requires a completely fresh look, and Bruce E. Levine finds that needed perspective in the seventeenth-century works of Baruch Spinoza. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by his life and the modern relevance of his radical philosophical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184935460X
• ISBN13: 9781849354608
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Radical

This book illuminated a new paradigm for me. It revealed many of the problems of modern-day psychiatry through reason (Spinoza) and evidence (cited many studies). This has helped me think more critically about mental health in general, how it is used as a means to support hierarchies, and the costs of this current conceptualization. I think this is an incredible read for anybody that is struggling with mental health or knows someone who is, especially if you enjoy a dash of philosophy.