Levine is the author of several books, including Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up,[4]The Child in the City,[5]Youth and Contemporary Religious Movements: Psychosocial Findings,[6] and Tell Me It's Only a Phase!: A Guide for Parents of Teenagers.[7]
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.[8]
Youth and Contemporary Religious Movements: Psychosocial Findings, 1976, Canadian Psychiatric Association, ASIN B0007AZZLC
Articles
"Alienated Jewish Youth and Religious Seminaries—An Alternative to Cults?", Saul L. Levine, Adolescence, v19 n73 p183-99 Spring 1984
"Youth and Contemporary Religious Movements: Psychosocial Findings", Saul V. Levine & Nancy E. Salter, 21(6) Canadian Psychology Association Journal 411-20 1976
"Radical Departures", Saul V. Levine, Psychology Today, August 1984, 27.
"Brief Psychotherapy with Children: A Preliminary Report", Alan J. Rosenthal and Saul V. Levine, Am. J. Psychiatry 1970 127: 646–651
"Brief Psychotherapy with Children: Process of Therapy", Alan J. Rosenthal, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. 94305, Saul V. Levine, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Staff Psychiatrist, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Am. J. Psychiatry 128:141–146, August 1971,
American Psychiatric Association
"Life in the Cults" in Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the
American Psychiatric Association, ed.
Marc Galanter (Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1989).
"The Urban Commune: Fact or Fad, Promise or Pipe Dream", Saul V. Levine, et al., 1971, Toronto University, ERIC #: ED067571
^"Brief Psychotherapy with Children: Process of Therapy", Alan J. Rosenthal, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. 94305, Saul V. Levine, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Staff Psychiatrist, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Am J Psychiatry 128:141–146, August 1971,
American Psychiatric Association
^The Canadian Encyclopedia, James H. Marsh, editor, original material from 1985, on internet 2001, regularly updated, article: "New Religious Movements", subsection: "The Brainwashing-Deprogramming Controversy", 2006 Historica Foundation of Canada. 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.