Next MF Web Radio: Bruce Levine vs. USA Despair Epidemic

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MindFreedom International News - 18 November 2007
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    Next on Free MindFreedom Live Call-In Web Radio:

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

    This Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4 pm ET just click on:

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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.

More info on the next MF Radio show:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/next-radio

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:

    This Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4 pm ET just click on:

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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:

http://chelseagreen.com/2007/items/survivingdepression/Praise

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