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From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:21:19 -0700

Subject: RE: [s-acc] re: classic on communication and conflict resolution

 

Uvw:

You wrote:

I'm not being too narrow, I'm being of full view, oh I'm getting older and my memory is starting to go, but I do remember REAL, as I said I went to a lot of meetings in LA and SF, I also told how Anna Freud knew the MPLM ..

You are still justifying that folks like me, Sylvia Caras and many others should have been excluded from NAPA. Our "lived experience" evidently lacks merit in your eyes.

But in fact that was a grievous outcome and was also directly the result of NAPA intentionally accommodating the "torture denial" system of clinical psychology.

Anna Freud was a famous proponent of torture denial. Jeffrey Masson wrote "The Assault on Truth" and detailed from materials in her possession Freud's denial of gender role abuse, hence the master's failure to come to grips with the issue of "torture." That's what your neo-Freudian "TA" experience taught you, "Anna got it right." But that's not so.

For some reason you think this all amounts to an attack on NAPA, but it's not, it's just a critique that shows its historical limitation(s).

 

Best

Andrew