MindFreedom International News - 18 November 2007

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What to do about America's epidemic of despair? Bruce E. Levine:

psychologist & author.

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Bruce E. Levine, PhD is author of a new book, "Surviving America's

Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World

Gone Crazy." Phone in with your questions & comments live. Host: David

Oaks.

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The USA Population is in Crisis of Despair -- What to Do?

Ask Bruce E. Levine:

"The rate of depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in

the last fifty years. By not seriously confronting societal sources of

despair, American mental health institutions have become part of the

problem rather than the solution. The good news is that age-old wisdom

and legitimate science -- uncorrupted by the profit- margin pressures of

pharmaceutical and insurance corporations -- have much to inform us about

revitalizing depressed people and a depressing culture.

"Surviving America's Depression Epidemic provides an alternate

approach that encompasses the whole of our humanity, society, and

culture, and which redefines depression in a way that makes enduring

transformation more likely."

Remember:

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BRIEF BIO OF GUEST:

Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist author of

Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and

Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007). Dr.

Levine has been in private practice since 1985. He is also the author of

Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks,

Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy (Continuum, 2003)

Dr. Levine has been a regular contributor to Z Magazine and The

Huffington Post, and his articles and interviews have been published in

Adbusters, The Ecologist, and numerous other magazines. Dr. Levine is on

the advisory council of the International Center for the Study of

Psychiatry and Psychology and on the editorial advisory board of the

journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. Bruce's website is

http://www.brucelevine.net

ADVANCE PRAISE:

"Surviving America's Depression Epidemic inspired me as I was reading it

and a few days later I even noticed that some of my own ideas and

behaviors have actually changed. There are many brilliant insights

throughout, forgotten in our modern helping culture. The book would be

just as—or even more—useful for helping professionals as for laypersons.

It's the best self-help book I've ever read and I'd recommend it to

anyone." — DAVID COHEN, Ph.D., co-author of Your Drug May Be Your Problem

"A distinct pleasure. A thoughtful, compassionate and refreshingly

humble look at what we call depression—well-written, easy-to-read,

original—a philosophical treatise on the nature of 'being,' what it means

to be alive, and the debilitating nature of our corporate society."

—ROBERT WHITAKER, Winner of the George Polk Award for Medical Writing,

author of Mad in America

"Dr. Bruce E. Levine reminds us to take a broader view and

incorporate historical analysis, social criticism, cross-cultural

perspectives, creative insights, and spiritual wisdom into any future

public discourse about why so many in our culture are so unhappy, and how

we can best help them thrive instead. Surviving America's Depression

Epidemic is a bold, intelligent, courageous, and insightful book that

will enlighten and inspire many individuals who count themselves as among

'the depressed' (including myself)." — THOMAS ARMSTRONG, Ph.D., author of

The Myth of the A.D.D. Child

"Surviving America's Depression Epidemic bravely connects much of the

overwhelming despair in our society to society itself, and offers

innovative remedies. I encourage anyone who has ever asked, ‘What are the

alternatives to the current mental health system?’ to read this book.

Bruce shows us an array of specific, practical options to fight the good

fight on our increasingly demoralized planet. As a psychiatric survivor,

I highly recommend that mental health professionals read this book." —

DAVID W. OAKS, Director MindFreedom International

REVIEWS:

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