Resisting Illegitimate Authority (eBook)

A Thinking Person's Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian—Strategies, Tools, and Models

Bruce E. Levine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
AK Press (Verlag)
978-1-84935-325-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Authoritarianism is on the rise. It’s time to “depathologize” noncompliance. Here’s one clinical psychologist’s tool kit for fighting back.

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The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarianspeople comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, asResisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.Profiling a diverse group of U.S. anti-authoritariansincluding Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Brucein order to glean useful lessons from their lives, No Badges is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for ';freedom' are often its most obedient and docile citizens.Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

Autor

Bruce E. Levine is a regular contributor to CounterPunch, Truthout, Z Magazine, AlterNet, Salon, and the Huffington Post. He is a practicing clinical psychologist often at odds with the mainstream of his profession, and he is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry and on the scientific advisory board of the National Center for Youth Law. A longtime activist in the mental health treatment reform movement, he is a member of the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry. His books include Get Up, Stand Up; Surviving America's Depression Epidemic; and Commonsense Rebellion.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: AUTHORITARIANS AND ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS
1. Authorities—and My Path to Resisting Illegitimate Authority
2. The Compliant, the Noncompliant, and the Anti-Authoritarian
Defining Terms
The Percentage of Americans Who Resist Illegitimate Authority
The Authoritarian and Anti-Authoritarian “Personality” and Left-Right Politics
PART TWO: THE ASSAULT ON U.S. ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS
3. Great Contributions Do Not Prevent Marginalization
Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, and Malcolm X
4. Criminalization of Anti-Authoritarians
Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, and Edward Snowden
5.Genocide of an Anti-Authoritarian People: Native Americans
6. Psychiatric Assault and Marginalization: Not Just Frances Farmer
7. Schooling’s Assault on Young Anti-Authoritarians
PART THREE: TRAGEDY OR TRIUMPH
8. Lessons from Anti-Authoritarians Who Have Hurt Themselves, Others, or the Cause
Self-Destructive Anti-Authoritarians: Phil Ochs, Lenny Bruce, and Ida Lupino
Violent Anti-Authoritarians: Alexander Berkman, Leon Czolgosz, and Ted Kaczynski
9. Political, Spiritual, Philosophical, and Psychological Lenses for Anti-Authoritarians
Anarchism
Buddhism
The God of Spinoza and Einstein
The Enneagram
10. Lessons from Anti-Authoritarians Who’ve Helped Themselves, Others, and the Cause
Counterculture Beacons: Henry David Thoreau and Scott Nearing
Two Strike Hitters: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Helen Keller
Modern Models: Jane Jacobs, Noam Chomsky, and George Carlin
11. We Don’t Need No Badges
Depression
Relationships
Mutual Aid
Parenting
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Chico
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: anxiety epidemic • Chomsky • counterpunch • Depression epidemic • Emma Goldman • Iconoclasts • Malcolm X • Mental Health • radical pyschology • Ralph Nader
• ISBN-10: 1-84935-325-5 / 1849353255
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-325-0 / 9781849353250