TROUBLED SEA AT RUSSIAN GULCH
To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com
From: target@batstar.net
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:44:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] Re: Fwd: A Middle East Update, 9 Aug 2008
Yes.
Phil Cushman moved from history to psychology, by way of being the "cult deprogramming" counselor for the S.F. Jewish Community Center. He came to a strong perspective on 'dialogue', rather akin to Mahmoud's advocacy below. In 2001 I served as consultant for Santa Clara County M.H. and organized a 1-day
Educational Retreat. I had Phil as keynote speaker. We had 20 client/survivor activists train 20 senior managers of the Silicon Valley M.H. system in .. dialogue. The discussion was on "trauma of treatment" where .. civility was considered "a lot to expect." That was a transformative experience but next month 9-11 upstaged it.Still, there is something to say for a new "dialogics" in "behavioral science."
Andrew Phelps
Quoting Ooo:
Not meaning to diminish the beauty and significance of Mahmoud's poetry in the Middle East, I can't help but relate the following lines to those psychologists who fear to see the truth in our profession's battle against torture:
Small wonder that those who would insist on their univocal image of the world would be scared stiff when understandings converge through the meeting of tongues. As one who paid the price of attempting to build bridges through the dangerous, yet inevitable act of translation, I witnessed the fear of those who shunned his greatness: those who would not have his poetry incorporated in the curriculum of Israeli students; who would not have his tongue touch the hearts of those daily exposed to its dangers and beauty, its menace and promise of concord.