The Health Wyze Report – Episode 20 (audio edition) – Video

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The Health Wyze Report - Episode 20 (audio edition)
Visit our site at HealthWyze.org The HW detectives interview Bruce Levine, a psychologist, author, and social critic who challenges modern mental health treatments. Bruce is author of, "Get Up, Stand Up", "Surviving America #39;s Depression Epidemic - How to find Morale, Energy and Community in a World Gone Crazy", and "Commonsense Rebellion". He is also the winner of The Health Wyze Report #39;s #39;Trouble Maker of the Year #39; award for 2011. In this interview, we discuss Bruce #39;s insights about mainstream psychiatry, as well as its authoritarian nature. We talk about the brokenness of mental health treatments, including the use of primitive and dehumanizing behavior modification techniques. We discuss the willingness of mental health professionals to pathologize healthy rebellion and any person who questions authorities. The discussion includes how modern psychiatry is utilized to pacify society, as if it were a weapon of social control. Bruce tells us about the inherently authoritarian nature of most psychiatrists that is only exposed in private settings, and how large numbers of potentially great therapists abandoned college due to the scientific corruption. He explains how liberals and conservatives are two sides of the same coin, because they both see psychological treatments as a means to "fix" people who are not usually broken. We likewise discuss how it is those who have no informed consent, such as the elderly in nursing homes and children, who are the most likely to get ...From:HealthWyzeViews:5 0ratingsTime:57:40More inEducation

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