According to three 2022 comprehensive research reviews, there is no scientific evidence for what we have long been told by psychiatry—and the…
Bruce Levine
Former NIMH Director’s New Book
Claims of anti-authoritarian exclusivity inhibit the exchange of ideas and prevent diverse anti-authoritarian subcultures from the kind of mingling which, a century ago, created pleasurable “scenes”
A sane society would also be asking this: What is it about U.S. society that creates so many abusive and neglectful adults?
Establishment psychiatry has historically been supported by the ruling elite in return for meeting the elite’s needs to maintain the societal hierarchy and political status quo
Dissent without disobedience is essentially no threat to authoritarians in power
In my training to become a psychologist, I discovered that students, trainees, and subordinate mental health professionals who challenged authorities routinely got labeled as having “authority issues”
The Internet creates fears, lowers self-esteem, and divides them—all of which weakens their capacity to resist injustices
Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?