To my eye this is a kind of fait accompli. There is
essentially nothing about the responsibilities related to
helping people well. I.e. the intention is to create more
of the ‘same-old, same-old’ traumatic control arrangement
in the name of treatment. There is talk about ‘focus on
recovery’ and the like, but we know this refers to the
system’s agenda of cosmetic upgrade — where’s the beef?
Many years of the clients movement asking only for
token accommodation of self-help and patients rights
in lieu of a broader program of fighting trauma has
come back to haunt us.
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It’s still open season on people of Vision.
‘Adjustment’ is still the purpose, compliance the
measure.
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I hope people will present their concerns to the
public ‘input’ sessions coming up. And I hope
people will reflect on what
kind of re-networking
is needed if real responses to our expectation
of respectful interaction are to occur.
We are going to have to learn a lot about how to
be accountable to client values. And we are going
to have to learn how to assert that the society
deal with madness in a more real kind of way.
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Mission & Philosophy