From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>
To: Mental Health Activism and Advocacy <actmad@actmad.net>
Sent: Fri Mar 5 17:36 PST
Subject: Re: [Actmad] draft - help with thoughts on 'safe'
Yza:
Robert Okin is a psychiatrist at UCSF who is internationally involved in the "clinical gaze" critique stemming from Trieste in Italy. He was Commissioner for Mental Health in Massachusetts in the late 70s, and fought then
against the development of a "consent" process for psych meds. Now he cites that as an example of his failure to understand how he should have taken social responsibility - but didn't.Perhaps he could give you another way to approach the argumentation and political networking against this "safety" project.
Andrew Phelps
On Wed Mar 3 22:42, Yza sent:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Hgf wrote:
Do not underestimate the impact of jobs that will be created at the facility in California. The concept of "safety" is thus extended to economic conditions as well.
Yes. I just learned the Psychiatric Health Facility is part of the county Economic Development Strategy. I'm still working on how to intervene – ideas, phrases, what to emphasize, ..