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.

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