From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>

To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tue Dec 30 7:30PM PST

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

 

Lmn:

Your comment illustrates a misread of "client/survivor" advocacy. I don't have a degree in psychology; in fact I was prevented from going that direction by people associated with Phil Zimbardo.

On Tue Dec 30 20:44 GMT, Lmn sent:

Hi Andrew, would you be able to detail how the work of the cognitive science group solves the problem of working cross culturally re hope?

I don't think that "solves the problem" matches the phenomenon nor their expectations. It's really a distinguished group of U.C. Berkeley professors who put together a long-standing dialogue process.

And I'm pleased to have had a considerable association with that group, despite my "2nd class status" as a person whose "deficiencies" kept him from a professional career in psychology.

I've been on the RADICAL-PSYCHOLOGY-NETWORK list since about 1994 and on this one (its successor) since its inception. Now after about 15 years my voice is occasionally actually being heard by professional psychologists on-list. That's good, and thank you who care to listen and care to note that, in my own way, I've "studied hard."

I actually think that the "critical psychology" space where you and Helen were educated, from where John Shotter derives, is one of the best sources for "working cross culturally re hope."

I would like to know how to develop a suitable radical critique of Zimbardo and his circle. Z. "woke up" after Abu Ghraib and decided that "there are new torture issues" which he'd not noted previously. But, to me, he's still .. sleepwalking. <sigh!>

 

Andrew Phelps