Disability Awareness Month 10/12/10
To: psysr-disc@yahoogroups.com
From: target@batstar.net
Cc: Onm
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 05:54:37 -0700
Subject: Re: [psysr-disc] Susan McKeown: Singing in the Dark. On madness and creativity
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Susan McKeown has a new show, Singing in the Dark, that is about creativity and madness, using music, poetry and song.).I hope you have a good experience at this event.
I'd note though that the interface between "creativity" and madness/ego psychology is not the clearest way to engage the challenge of truth by the representations of madness. My dear friend Elaine Boyle, for instance, was an Irish peace activist from Dublin who was constantly challenged by the dominance process of ego psychology/professional attitude management. She passed away last spring, following an experience at May Day. Elaine R.I.P. was prominent in posting on the RADPYSNET-MEMBERS list and most recently sought a Ph.D. in gender studies at the University there.
When [I] and other client/survivor activists came to the Boston Conference, we were pleased that we were treated as human beings. But the level of misunderstanding was so high (I called it [there] a kind of "counter-transference") that we all five [client/survivor activists presenting] walked away with our feelings badly bruised. And I'm afraid that Elaine's lived experience with a socially progressive movement (and we corresponded intimately for years) also bruised her. We need a higher quality of social interaction than currently obtains, with the psychologist/clinician "ethical" activists.
Best
Andrew Phelps
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