From: Andrew Phelps <dis_course@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [cnmhc] NAMI national conference report
To: cnmhc@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 8:47 AM
Zzz:
Of the approximately 2,000 attendees there is 500 consumers. I haven't heard any of the incorrect language that many say that NAMI promotes. In fact, it is Recovery language.
When reorganizing "behavioral science" is not on the table, when what one is working for is 'compliance' rather than creative maladjustment, when the voices of truth are cast aside, when Big Pharma pays and gets what it pays for, then "recovery" talk is more like "day treatment upgrade."
What do you mean by "recovery talk?" You use that term like that's the ideology we ought to swear by. I was one of the 12 "plank facilitators" at the 1999 Portland National Summit. [3 were from CA, the other two being Jay Mahler "Recovery" and Sally Zinman "Forced Treatment."] I never agreed with Jay's recovery plank, although it was embraced by the CMHDA and a version written into the MHSA.
Andrew Phelps