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HiNancy Pena the M.H. Director for Santa Clara County (San Jose/Silicon Valley) recommended to me the following article: Organizational forms as moral practices: the case of welfare departments, as a starting point for m.h. administrators & staff to look at their own system and understand what they have to work with.
¬ click here for article Many years ago when I was first trying to explain what was fundamentally the problem with the system, I came up with the formulation ‘institutionalized abuse’. This was based on an analogy to the formulation ‘institutionalized racism’. Hehehe I guess some people knew what I meant, but really this way of putting it didn’t take off. Today I refer to this as ‘trauma of treatment’, which I think gets thru better, but still is kind of challenging for system practitioners. Now however Nancy’s formulation hits close to what I really wanted to achieve, a sense of how the dialogue on the way the system works really does look internally. It reminds me of a paper Phil Cushman wrote recently, Beyond a postmodern ‘decorated’ self and identity politics: toward a moral and political psychoanalysis. In both cases it is the way morality is institutionalized that becomes the subject of our interpretations. Andrew Phelps | ||||||||||
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