Commonsense Rebellion

Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy

By: Bruce Levine

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Paperback | 1 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Institutional mental health's "illnesses" and "treatments" are contrasted with commonsense explanations and solutions. In recent years the mental health industry has been attacked for the invalidity of its illnesses, the unreliability of its diagnoses, the dangers of its treatments, and its corruption by drug companies. Commonsense Rebellion integrates those critiques and goes further. Nearly 1 in 4 American adults take psychiatric drugs, and Ritalin production has increased 800 percent since 1990. Yet the mental health industry laments the fact that two-thirds of us with diagnosable mental disorders do not seek treatment. This book argues that "institutional mental health's" ever-increasing diseases, disorders, and drugs have diverted us from examining an important rebellion against an increasingly impersonal and coercive "institutional society" which worships speed, power, and technology. This has created fantastic wealth--at least for some--but its disregard for human autonomy, community, and diversity has come with a cost. Depression has reportedly increased tenfold since 1900, and suicide levels for teenage boys have tripled since 1960. Have human genetics and serotonin levels changed that much, or has society?

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: "Why do we need Commonsense Rebellion?"	p. 1
The A to Z Guide
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) "Do we really want our bored kids drugged?"	p. 14
Bad Boys: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder "Is noncompliance really a disease?"	p. 28
Chemical Dependency "What facts are being hidden from us?"	p. 39
Depression "Antidepressants--miracle drugs or snake oil?"	p. 52
Education "What is really learned in school?"	p. 67
Food and Fat "Is this a medical or a cultural problem?"	p. 81
Gambling "How is it taking over our society?"	p. 90
Health Care: Hospitals, HMOs, and Heteronomy "How are we, at every level, giving up control over our own health?"	p. 98
Incarceration "Why has the United States become the world's leading jailer?"	p. 108
Jobs "Are we finding meaning and satisfaction in our worklife?"	p. 118
Konsumerism, Kommercials, and Kids "Is consumerism America's true religion?"	p. 130
Lucre: Money and Hypocrisy "Do we think critically when it comes to money?"	p. 140
Mass Society "Why is it that the bigger our institutions get, the unhappier we are?"	p. 147
Newest Nomenclature: The DSM-IV "Scientifically, are psychiatric diagnoses of any value?"	p. 157
Online "Should we have any concerns?"	p. 166
Pavlov, Punishment, and Positive Reinforcement: Behavior Modification "Is a manipulative society a healthy one?"	p. 174
Quantities and Quotients: IQ "Why do we need to rank, and how do we define intelligence?"	p. 183
Road Less Traveled? Institutional Psychotherapy "Does institutional mental health offer a truly humanistic alternative?"	p. 192
Schizophrenia and Success "Have we jumped the gun on our assumptions about people who act crazy?"	p. 201
Television "What are its true dangers, the ones the media don't address?"	p. 216
U.S. Government "Why don't we vote or do so with little enthusiasm?"	p. 226
Viagra and Venus: Selling Sex and Relationships "What's wrong with technologizing our sexuality and relationships?"	p. 237
Web: The Institutional Illness Web "What does it look like?"	p. 247
Xanax and Anxiety "How are we becoming a drug-dependent society?"	p. 248
Y2K Compliance: Technics and Machine Worship "Should we worship technology--or assess each technology for potential dehumanizing effects?"	p. 257
Zero Except Some Zinsser and Diseasing "Do we all disease that which we dislike?"	p. 268
More Commonsense Steps to Commonsense Living	p. 269
Regaining Autonomy
Restoring Community
Reclaiming Our Humanity
The Struggle against Coercion and Manipulation
Better Living without Chemicals
Helping Another Human Being
When to Fire My Helper
Knowing Early on If You Have the Right Helper
Remembering Who You Are
Final Thoughts: Morale
Notes	p. 294
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