Nationality Canadian Fields Psychiatry Residence Canada | Role Author Name Saul Levine | |
Institutions Sunnybrook Medical Center
University of Toronto Known for The Child in the City
Radical Departures Books Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up | ||
Academic employer University of Toronto | ||
Saul V. Levine (born 1938) is a Canadian psychiatrist and author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Residency in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School. Instructor, Dept of Psychiatry, Stanford Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 1970–1993. Professor, Chairman of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Science Center, Toronto. Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 1993–2011. Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, 1993–2011. He was department head of psychiatry at Sunnybrook Medical Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Levine is the author of several books, including Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up, The Child in the City, Youth and contemporary religious movements: Psychosocial findings, and Tell Me It's Only a Phase! A Guide for Parents of Teenagers.
Levine's book Radical Departures is cited in The Canadian Encyclopedia article on "New Religious Movements":
University of Toronto psychiatrist Saul V. Levine made a study of deprogramming in his book Radical Departures (1984). He concluded that as a means of changing people's views it was not only a failure but positively dangerous. These conclusions were supported by other scholars who provided civil libertarians, religious leaders in established churches and members of new religions with evidence against the practice of deprogramming. As a result it gradually fell into disrepute.