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In this jeremiad about the mental health industry, society more than psychiatry takes the brunt of Levine's criticism. He cites psychiatric critics Thomas Szasz and Peter Breggin in support of his opposition to overdiagnosis, medication, and excessive psychiatric influence. Yet a large proportion of the mental health establishment would agree with his indictment of TV, guns, alcohol and tobacco, gambling, overeating, advertising, mass education, managed care, Viagra, prisons, and employment trends. Well read, thoughtful, and idealistic, Levine wants to humanize science and technology, not abolish them. But he goes overboard at times, exaggerating the evils of psychiatry, itself a divided profession (see J. Allan Hobson's Out of Its Mind, LJ 6/15/01). He thus blights his own argument, as when he argues that "the behavior modifiers have today taken over culture as totally as the Nazis had once taken over Europe." The book merits attention despite these faults and belongs in most libraries in a category bridging social criticism and self-help. E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Summer 2002
"Levine’s voice is clear, concise, and captivating...The book...is more than just common sense. It is expressed wisdom"
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In this jeremiad about the mental health industry, society more than psychiatry takes the brunt of Levine's criticism. He cites psychiatric critics Thomas Szasz and Peter Breggin in support of his opposition to overdiagnosis, medication, and excessive psychiatric influence. Yet a large proportion of the mental health establishment would agree with his indictment of TV, guns, alcohol and tobacco, gambling, overeating, advertising, mass education, managed care, Viagra, prisons, and employment trends. Well read, thoughtful, and idealistic, Levine wants to humanize science and technology, not abolish them. But he goes overboard at times, exaggerating the evils of psychiatry, itself a divided profession (see J. Allan Hobson's Out of Its Mind, LJ 6/15/01). He thus blights his own argument, as when he argues that "the behavior modifiers have today taken over culture as totally as the Nazis had once taken over Europe." The book merits attention despite these faults and belongs in most libraries in a category bridging social criticism and self-help. E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Summer 2002
"Levine’s voice is clear, concise, and captivating...The book...is more than just common sense. It is expressed wisdom"
See all Editorial Reviews
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