>Hello everyone. What an interesting conversation. Let me toss out some of
>my half-baked thoughts.
>
>If we are relying on any singular pseudospecialist term designed explicitly
>for use by and among professionals, are we not continuing to imply that we
>are more experts at knowing what plagues our clientele than they are? What
>if we simply did what other non-professionals do, and described persons
>using adjectives from everyday language? This would certainly move us away
>from relying on fancy terms that, in my view, tell us little about the
>client's relationships and personal meanings, but tell us a whole lot about
>the professional's need for some kind of (elusive) overarching system for
>comprehending others.
>
>Szasz might argue that it doesn't matter what we call it, especially if
>"it" is simply a matter of the more powerful person defining/naming the
>less powerful one.
>
>JON
>
>
>At 01:10 AM 11/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi
>>
>>Resuming the original discussion, why don't use a word like "methanoia"?
>>(Maybe I'm misspelling it). It was the original proposal of the English
>>antipsychiatry movement. (I don't know if it was Thomas Szasz' or R. D.
>>Laing's idea). It focuses on the process aspect of the "schizophrenic"
>>events, therefore placing the weird symptoms in a time perspective. (This
is
>>somewhat parallell to what Salvador Minuchin calls "bringing the symptom
>>back to normal").
>>But then again, methanoia was given a try -and it failed. It has its
>>advantages: is a single word, with a shareable construction, and it's not
>>easily turned into a stigma.
>>Unfortunatelly, it's not the preemptive "diagnosis" the medical model (and
>>their insurance counterparts) seem to enjoy...
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Esteban Laso
>>eslaso@ibm.net
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>>
>>
>>
>Jonathan D. Raskin, Ph.D.
>Dept. of Psychology-JFT
>State University of New York at New Paltz
>75 S. Manheim Blvd.
>New Paltz, NY 12561-2499
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