From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>
To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun Feb 15 5:40PM PST
Subject: Re: [RadPsyNet-Members] from into the faery woods
Ttt:
On Mon Feb 16 0:49 GMT, you sent:
The original Soteria was in San Jose. This was part of a larger movement including a similar establishment in San Francisco. There was a shrink on the "oversight board" in S.F. which held the operation in "go" as long as it could, whom I later interviewed and helped put on the Berkeley Mental Health Advisory Board. There was a parallel argumentation against labeling which is where I first heard of Tom Scheff. About 1980 Mosher was kicked out of power and the Feds went to the "brain" model; labeling theory went into political decline as well. We got NAMI and we got the problem of "SMI" so-called instead.
Now we are in another stage where our "broken brains" are getting enlarged human content. That's why Tom writes about Socio-Emotional Models for 'Depression', why there's a national organization
http://ncmhcso.org of statewide "csx" organizations, why indeed "trauma" is starting to make inroads in SAMHSA's agenda. In that context some people are following a Soteria revival track. Only I've yet to see if they've fully picked up the "social accountability" a.k.a. "responsibility" construct.Martin Luther King, Jr. writes of the need to promote "creative maladjustment" based on the values of freedom and dignity. "Dignity" still gets short shrift, I'm afraid.
Andrew