There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field requires a completely fresh look, and clinical psychologist Bruce Levine—a man often at odds with his profession—enlists the early Enlightenment philosopher Baruch de Spinoza to help work through the problem. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by the modern relevance of hi...

With the rise of Donald Trump and other authoritarian leaders around the world, there is an increased interest in both authoritarians and anti-authoritarians.Written by a respected clinical psychologist, this book is the first to serve both as an overview of the cultural assault upon rebellious behavior from childhood through adulthood and as a self-help manual for the people who are the object of that assault.While written for the general public, the book’s messag...

The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.Profilin...