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I’m going to expand on this perspective, but I think it is very
important. Especially as a follow-up to my post putting the
myth to rest from the 24th.
editorial from the Richmond, VA Times DispatchMayberg/CMHDA made a choice when they did Realignment, of creating a narrow ‘partnership’ that oppressed professionals, family members, and clients who were ‘controversial’. The game behind this was a kind of strategy of how to defend against the NAMI/TAC agenda of liquidating traditional mental health [reference: speech by Fuller Torrey, 1996]. Mayberg et al. chose a ‘center strategy’ because they could sell it, they figured, to the legislature/governor. For the time being, this was successful — despite the devastation caused to the client activists and others who were subject to the McCarthyist hate campaign included in this approach.The Richmond Times Dispatch October 25, 2000 In a little-noticed but hugely significant policy speech delivered on June 15 called the “New Freedom Initiative,” Governor Bush laid out his compassionate-conservative approach to treatment for mental illness. Significantly, these policies are endorsed by .. the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (the nation's leading mental health advocacy organization). Thus the initiative combines the best of conservative policy and compassionate advocacy. Fuller Torrey in Freudian fraud exhibits the essentially McCarthyist nature of his anti-mental health agenda. With Bush in power, this kind of ‘crazy-bashing’ is IN: It is, in fact, ‘compassionate’. The strategy of Mayberg et al. WILL NOT WORK in the new climate, it is plainly L not W. It is going to be necessary to stand up directly to the Bush/Torrey trauma-promotion agenda. In order to be ‘moderate’ it will require the revisiting of the system of attacks on people who want to raise the issue of ‘trauma of treatment’. That means that the present “us v. them” hate campaign which dominates the ‘partnership’/‘recovery’ agenda today is going to have to be restructured. There is going to have to be a move from their exclusionary control process over to finding the parameters which will admit sensitivity into the management. What elsewhere I’ve argued amounts to a union recognition approach to independent client organizing, for instance. There is going to have to be serious dialogue about accountability. Respectfully Andrew Phelps | ||||||||||
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