Jancis Long speaks at ApA

 

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From: Andrew Phelps <math_mad@yahoo.com>

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:12:33 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: [Client Discussions] Never before seen pictures of last years protest of APA

 

Vvv:

These are nice pictures, but the same rap still applies to your advocacy. At the May ApA demo ("p" is the usage standard for psychiatry rather than psychology) the Social Accountability Work Group presented a major breakthrough in "client/survivor" advocacy. And you have totally failed to note/depict that.

We arranged for Jancis Long, the President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, to speak there. She compared the ethical breakdown of ApA (which caters to Big Pharma) and the ethical breakdown of the APA (psychology) which caters to military intelligence/torture. We are reaching out to the human rights struggle in a different manner than you expected, and one long denied/under-rated in our movement.

As usual, you continue the disgraceful MindFreedom claim that the Social Accountability Work Group is an advocacy "for money." [That group] is an advocacy against the 'medical model' as the ethical and philosophical basis for the oppression of the "client/survivors." To the shame [of MF], they refuse to challenge the 'medical model' on principle; when they say they do so, they speak "with forked tongue." They actually only challenge the present bio-bio-bio fashion whereby Big Pharma dominates psychiatric practice. That's important to challenge, as is the "torture denial" of the present system, but it's also central to our advocacy to challenge the pretense that the pre-scientific approach to behavior management is "science."

Do you have the principles to challenge the 'medical model'?

 

Andrew Phelps

 

 

On Fri, 3/12/10, Vvv wrote:

I just now got the pictures that I took last year at the awesome nonviolent protest that MindFreedom held in May 2009 in front of the huge psychiatric drug exhibit at Moscone Center in San Francisco at the start of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. It’s been a busy year what can I say.