From: Andrew Phelps <math_anxiety@yahoo.com>
To: withholdapadues@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [withholdapadues] Re: The still-growing NPR "torture" controversy
Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 4:36 PM
Ooo:
My approach remains a grand manipulation and has absolutely nothing to do with the patient’s own preferences EXCEPT to serve the purpose of accomplishing the practical outcome of his/her "compliance" with what I think is his/hers and the public’s best interests. Baldly stated, that may seem too Machiavellian for you bleeding hearts, but that is my responsibility as a professional.
These two sentences are the essence of what this doctor believes, it seems, and so much of the rest is gift-wrapping as well as doublethink. I don't know that anyone could change his self-righteous stance.
Well said. At the S.F. APA our "Social Accountability Work Group" did a skit on the street corner, across the street from a different (and collaborative) skit with the Act Against Torture group. We had signs that said "Compliance is Ethics." The skit itself is
online.When Jancis Long spoke [at] the "client/survivor" demo in front of the ApA in S.F. this May, I brought one of those signs.
:-) I was pleased to have Jancis [collaborating with us] and pleased to be able to communicate [thus] with the "self-righteous" psychiatric community.
Best
Andrew Phelps