From: Andrew Phelps <math_anxiety@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [withholdapadues] APA presidential election
To: withholdapadues@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:16 AM
Hi
There's a message here which seems to be lost to the WITHHOLDAPADUES advocacy, so far anyway. When Paula Caplan and I delivered it to the PsySR business meeting for the DC APA 2005, it was "trumped" by the agenda that "treatment is OK." They went on to the "business" that the Bush regime was "meddling with the integrity of science." And to the agenda of what we know now as the "PENS process."
There is "bias in psychiatric diagnosis." Paula (with Lisa Cosgrove) edited a book on that, with the support of the AWP. That implies that the objectification system promotes "trauma of treatment" a.k.a. torture. It's part of how learned helplessness is built into behavior management ideation and practice today. It produces what Bryant Welch explains today as "gaslighting."
What is "drapetomania?" It's the 19th century diagnosis that a slave wanting to run away from the master is a diagnosable disorder.
Since then Paula has taken a position in Gender Studies at Harvard.
On Fri, 12/5/08, Pqr wrote:
Hi Ghi, she is indeed the favorite of the APA higher ups. Pqr
On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Ghi wrote:
I too am surprised that Carol Goodheart won. She was the keynote speaker at the MD. Psychological Assn. annual conference last month, and the title of her talk was something like mind-body medicine, but it wasn't on it and was so basic that it told us nothing. Also, she wasn't a very dynamic speaker.
I wonder if it is possible to ask for a recount, even though the numbers aren't at all close. It is just improbable and I wonder if there was a mistake or monkey business.
[Yet] I don't think "monkey business" is the best language usage, given the ethnic sensitivities involved.
Andrew Phelps
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