This Week: Bruce Levine on SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC, and more…
October 18th, 2007
Clinical psychologist, Bruce E. Levine, joins us to talk about his book, SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007).
Also, a preview of a conversation with George Monbiot we’ll be airing later in the season about his book, HEAT: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (South End Press, 2007).
The rate of clinical depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years. Is this epidemic properly being addressed by the insurance, pharmaceutical, and governmental powers-that-be or exacerbated by a failing system focused on instant results and high profit margins? In SURVIVING AMERICA’S DEPRESSION EPIDEMIC, Dr. Bruce E. Levine argues the latter and provides a compelling alternative approach to treating depression that makes lasting change more likely than with symptom-based treatment through medication.
And in our preview clip of the interview with Monbiot, Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue talk with him about Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Monbiot applauds the acknowledgment of the climate crisis in awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, but criticizes recipient Al Gore for undermining the Kyoto Protocol when he was in office. Writer’s Voice co-produced this interview with Corporate Watchdog Radio, which posted it to the CWR website this week. So if you want to hear the interview now, click here.
This show airs first on WMUA 91.1 FM-Amherst, MA on Friday, October 19 at 4:30 PM. Tune in here for live-webstreaming. The podcast will post here on the Writer’s Voice site by Tuesday, October 23.
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