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From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:56:58 -0800
Subject: Re: [s-acc] changing behavior
Efg:
Having met Uts and having corresponded some with you, I'd have to say that his "Buffalo ambience" is way different than your "Phoenix ambience." In fact that's a major part of the sentiments we are now discussing. What empowers Ttt as a young person in West Virginia is specific to that Appalachian environment, and so forth.
Foucault works to place the verbiage historically and politically but I kept telling people that at various clinics and they were still mean to the people they were supposed to serve. Oh, and the 500 or so Recovery Trainings that were mandatory, appeared to fall on deaf ears.
One question is how to talk across the divide of the "clinical gaze."
You are (amazingly!) going eyeball to eyeball with behavioral managers. Uts (I think I've got this right) is operating in an academic/peer advocacy context, which has a way different dialogical structure.
Maybe trying to explain the dialogical structure of the world of behavior managers would be instructive for us.
Best regards
Andrew