Another way to look at this is that our movement has historically under-rated the role of 'fighting the medical model'. Either we tend to focus on the fashion of overdrugging or we tend to focus on accommodating the prevailing psychiatric proclivities. Of course it is hard to pay direct attention to the long-term historical problem of "changing the paradigm" in science; still we need to.

This Law Symposium seems to me to be the result of those who are committed to the 'medical model' finding that the times are "good" for them. The general crisis of society has everybody, including us, off balance. So the "old habit" looks better, and maybe (they think) this is the moment to get somewhere, to stuff our "client/survivor" advocacy back into its hole, properly labeled, too.