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From: Andrew Phelps <no-action@cwnet.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:41:52 -0800
Subject: Re: Re: [s-acc] Re: Jericho
Abc:
Oh, my! I've spent about 40 years working on this matter. That includes my website http://batstar.net/piper which contains articles I've written and references.
On Fri Feb 12 11:44, Abc sent:
Andrew do you have any citations where there is informed discussion of the medical model being 'pre-scientific'?
The social constructionist approach of Ken Gergen is built on "what one must do to get past this stuck place." See his
antidiagnosis website where the heading on the website is "Resources for replacing 'mental disease' with democratic dialogue."A more critical handle on the same matter is displayed throughout British critical psychology, for instance. That includes Shotter's "Social Accountability" but much else, too. I'm pleased that there are three people on S-ACC who have direct training in the U.K. in that tradition.
:-)The "cognitive science" perspective which Jln has introduced here via Lakoff has assumptions in it of that sort. The "clinical gaze" philosophy of Foucault is the focal argument of the history of the 'medical model' and why it is prescientific, and is thus the basis for Trieste Mental Health and its abolition of forced treatment there. It also relates to the critiques of Lacan and DeLeuze and Guattari and the like, which are parallel with those of Foucault, and which have been mentioned on this listserv.
In my own professional activity, I teach statistics knowing that the assumptions underlying "hypothesis testing" go back to the cognitive errors that render the present practicum of 'social science' pre-scientific.
Be well
Andrew