From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>

To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Mon Dec 22 7:42AM PST

Subject: Re: [RadPsyNet-Members] Re: Kant and morality

 

Hi

On Mon Dec 22 14:11 GMT, Lmn sent:

Words are like pockets in this respect, one can always stuff new meanings into them!

I'm into the Echinodermata. Sea stars have "behavior" (observable on slow-motion camera) and no "brains" (~20 nerve cells total, no ganglions). Of course as a "client/survivor," behavior w/o brains is "par for the course."

My hope for this list is that people will start to value each other strengths rather than undermine those whose strengths are different to their own.

Sometimes that happens. That's what "makes a difference." Venting also happens, too. It turns out the neocon psychology of "stealing everything" (Leo Strauss has an appropriate comment on killing the poor man's lamb) has been the FIRST TARGET of our experience these last 15 years on the Radical Psychology list(s).

I urge all of you to put your strengths together within the common aim of creating a psychological praxis that is helpful for the people you serve and which is respectful of (and perhaps even curious about)

The obvious immediate task is to get the attention and interest of the Ethical APA group.

This network here was founded in 1993 at an APA meeting. I wasn't there, but I gather there was dissatisfaction with the direction of psychology at the time. NOW that dissatisfaction has matured. One of the lead founders of the APA Practice Org. has defected. NOW we can talk torture instead of just talk with the agony of torture in our voices.

Maybe this list's "elder status" can be acknowledged by the "Ethical APA" folks and maybe our advocacy can be brought into the circle in the Native American sense.

 

Andrew Phelps

The Sidwell Friends School Class of 1961