Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:52:48 -0800

To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com

From: "feb7th71" <target@batstar.net>

Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky Has Never Seen Anything Like This

There is an obvious answer here, to "bring the war home."

Ikm wrote:

I learned as a psychology undergraduate that Chomsky was responsible for rendering the "rat psychology" model for human behavior inoperative. I also spent years in cog-sci seminars hearing his student George Lakoff explain the implications therefrom, as he saw them.

My view is that we need an advocacy against the "behavior object" model of "behavioral health." I do not regard myself as an "object to be managed." I do understand that the "treatment" I've received has rendered me subject to such a social dynamic.

That's personal. In terms of taking social responsibility, if we can nurture a movement to "build cultures of peace" which aims at overcoming the "gaslighting" dynamic of behavioral management, then we can engage this "U.S. end of the road" in a creative and potentially powerful way. We can do the "Tea Party" much better if we empower the modality of being that ML King Jr. called "creative maladjustment" and associated with changing the way we do 'behavioral science'.

Can we go that way? What is the basis for common agenda for the client/survivors and the ethical psychology movement?