From: Andrew Phelps <no-action@cwnet.com>
To: SOCIALJUSTICE@LISTS.APA.ORG
Subject: Re: [SOCIAL] Mayer on Seligman
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:26:13 -0700
Cc: Friends
Hi
I listened to Amy Goodman
interview Jane Mayer this morning.Makes me wish I could afford to go to the APA next month.
Last year the radical (left-wing social democratic) group "Act Against Torture" supported the "Ethical APA" demo in San Francisco, and also did a noontime skit on the streetcorner there. I organized the multicultural police shootings group in San Jose, "Coalition for Justice and Accountability" to endorse the "Ethical APA" demo, and then a group of "client/survivor" activists did a noontime streetcorner skit on the other side of Howard in parallel (and in consultation) with the AAT.
Our skit was "The Businessman Has No Clothes" and it spoke to the "learned helplessness"/"positive psychology" dichotomy and its relation to the "clinical gaze" critique, that "treatment can be torture."
Script link.And thank you, Jane Mayer, for your help in bringing up this opening.
Andrew Phelps
On Thu Jul 17 21:35, Www sent:
Here are some excerpts from an article on Jane Mayer’s book The Dark Side (released on Tuesday), and psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman. Jane Mayer is a writer for the New Yorker:
Mayer On Seligman