Practicing clinical psychologist Dr. Bruce Levine, a freethinker, examines how modern psychiatry has lost its way—medicalizing natural human traits like curiosity, defiance, and rebellion, often treating them with medication rather than understanding them as rational responses to an irrational world.

Howl in the Wilderness Podcast hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James. Howling about ketamine, magic bullet cures, psychiatric bullsh*t and traumadelic culture with clinical psychiatrist and writer Bruce E. Levine.

Psychologist, writer and activist Bruce Levine. Dr. Levine writes and speaks widely on how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His most recent book is A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry―Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment (2022).

Discussion with PhD clinical psychologist, Bruce Levine. Dr. Levine recognized decades ago problems with the dominant biomedical model that focuses heavily on the theory of biochemical imbalances in the brain as the primary cause of psychological distress.

Dr. Wes Robins interviews Dr. Bruce Levine. They discuss the oppressive and abusive aspects of Psychology and Psychiatry and begin to look at ways that past movements, i.e. the anti-psychiatry movement and peer to peer help/ mutual aid community work can help us heal modern-day suffering. Dr. Robins and Dr. Levine discuss youth work the future of psychology and what it truly means to truly rehumanize mental health.

Bruce Levine's new book is A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment.

Bruce Levine discusses: critiquing the "defect model" of mental illness; how psychiatry resembles religion; financial motivations of Big Pharma; that SSRIs are no more effective than placebos in clinical trials; the lack of connection between depression and seretonin levels; how Big Pharma load the dice in their studies; how Big Pharma influences the DSM; the subjectivity of diagnosing mental health issues; when anti-authoritarian people are diagnosed as "mentally ill;" how blaming individuals for their mental difficulties gives systemic factors a pass; the role of trauma in adversely affecting mental health; the importance of community and its role in healing; the recent legalization of psilocybin mushrooms in Oregon; and his recent book, "Resisting Illegitimate Authority."

Author Bruce Levine and His New Book-Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person's Guide to Being An Anti-Authoritarian: Strategies, Tools and Models. The capacity to comply with human abusive authority is humanity's tragic flaw. Fortunately there are anti-authoritarians, those comfortable with rejecting—for themselves and for others—an unquestioning obedience to authority, and they believe in challenging and resisting illegitimate authority.

Dr. Bruce Levin discusses his book Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian―Strategies, Tools, and Models. We talk about authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism, how dissent has been pathologized by power structures in the past, how it is pathologized today, and how anti-authoritarians can fruitfully resist and dissent against oppressive power structures.

Graham Elwood interviews Dr. Bruce E. Levine on the horrors of psychiatry and it's attempt to quell anti-authoritarianism.

The National Empowerment Center presents - Bruce Levine: "The Anti-Authoritarian Movement to Rehumanize Mental Health".

Dr. Bruce E. Levine writes and speaks widely on how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect.

Bruce Levine writes about the mental health profession's increasing trend to treat healthy challenges to authority and a dysfunctional society as abnormal.

Psychotropic drugs are designed to blunt and hurt your internal life. That's why they "work". You're left stupefied. A huge part of your emotional functions is neutralized, the exact same happening for the higher integrative functions in the neo-cortical tissues. Higher, abstract reasoning is dimmed down, and with it goes creativity. Empathy, depending on emotional response, is absolutely blunted. This takes a very heavy toll on your moral functioning, the moral conscience. You still know right from wrong, you can still reflect on moral principles, but you don't really feel bad when doing wrong, or good when doing right. It all tends to becomes grey, dull, insipid.

Bruce E. Levine, author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic, speaks about how the drug industry's fixation on profits, marketing, and quick-fix psychotropic drugs is damaging the health of Americans.

Bruce E. Levine, author of Get Up, Stand Up discusses the characteristics of democracy movements for change and the connection with the "psychiatric survivor" movement for rights, holistic alternatives, and transformation of mental health systems. This talk took place at the Creating Connections through Dialogue Conference in Beverly, MA - June 10-12, 2011.

Bruce E. Levine tells the story of how he became a dissident psychologist, opposing the dominant paradigm in mental health and promoting holistic, person-centered alternatives. This talk was given at the Creating Connections through Dialogue Conference, Beverly MA - June 10-12, 2011.

Bruce E. Levine tells the story of how he became a dissident psychologist, opposing the dominant paradigm in mental health and promoting holistic, person-centered alternatives. This talk was given at the Creating Connections through Dialogue Conference, Beverly MA - June 10-12, 2011.

Bruce E. Levine tells the story of how he became a dissident psychologist, opposing the dominant paradigm in mental health and promoting holistic, person-centered alternatives. This talk was given at the Creating Connections through Dialogue Conference, Beverly MA - June 10-12, 2011.

Bruce Levine is the author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy. In this video from Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA, Bruce explains the corruption and lack of common sense he sees in America's mental health care industry.