{"product_id":"resisting-illegitimate-authority-a-thinking-persons-guide-to-being-an-anti-authoritarian-strategies-tools-and-models-9781849353243","title":"Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person's Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian--Strategies, Tools, and Models","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are \u003cem\u003e anti-authoritarian\u003c\/em\u003es--people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as \u003cem\u003eResisting Illegitimate Authority\u003c\/em\u003e reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfiling a diverse group of U.S. anti-authoritarians--including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce--in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, \u003cem\u003eResisting Illegitmate Authority\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eResisting Illegitimate Authority\u003c\/em\u003e is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce E. Levine is a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eCounterPunch, Truthout, Z Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlterNet, Salon, \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eEthical Human Psychology and Psychiatry\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Psychiatry. His books include \u003cem\u003eGet Up, Stand Up\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSurviving America's Depression Epidemic\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eCommonsense Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50475935006994,"sku":"9781849353243","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da00e396-2d53-4985-9c6c-47efea1e7eeb.jpg?v=1730240760","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/resisting-illegitimate-authority-a-thinking-persons-guide-to-being-an-anti-authoritarian-strategies-tools-and-models-9781849353243","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}