Hi Nick.
It's a Sorrow that there's so much that's 'Dictated' by the
'whispering campaigns' that underpin 'stigmatization', when all
that's necessary is to say, "Yeah, folks disn't understand, and
errors were made."
It's not past errors that are important.
What's important is the errors impacting the Present, and the errors
that'll impact the future, if the errors of the past are not
addressed Forthrightly.
Lack of Forthrightness with respect to such actively perpetuates the
error-condition that'll inflict harm that can be prevented.
Anyway, this sort of allowing-past-errors to dictate what can be
done, 'now', is what this discussion is evoking, at least for me.
Part of it derives in the 'legalistic-lottery' predisposition of
'modern' U. S. 'society'.
Folks've come to view 'getting-rich' by sicking-lawyers on folks who
erred because they were nothing other than aligned with the
generally-prevailing ignorance in which their professions were
immersed.
And the ramifications of all that are like the 'monkey-wrench thrown
into the gears' of endeavor.
It's so Sorrow-Filled.
No one cares about anything other than 'getting-theirs' and\or
'covering their butts'.
It's part of why I openly discuss all of my 'foibles' - want to show
folks that, in reality, there's always a lot of 'stumbling-around' in
the midst of actually getting-anywhere.
But, the way things have become 'expects' everything to be devoid of
its historical basis in-error - failed-attempts, trial-and-error
experience - everyone's living in the False 'expectation' that 'all
is perfect', and any hint of 'error' is 'scandalous'.
Truth is, error is always in-there because, as is discussed in AoK,
Ap8, one cannot "see 'round the bend".
So rather than existing in the reality that the Need for Forgiveness
is built-right-in, folks 'deny' such [deny reality :-], and 'feign'
perfection.
It's 'hilarious' - it's in my everyday experience to witness folks
'saying' that NDT's stuff has been 'their view all along' - when all
one has to do to see that that hasn't been the case is to go to the
older books.
Why do I 'whine' about such?
If any one thing I've accomplished in the work I've done would've
been publicly-acknowledged, I could've given all the rest of the work
I've done - there's so much Waste in all the 'squirming'-around that
displaces simple, Forthright publication, in 'normal' ways.
Folks need to learn Forthrightness.
Folks need to learn that overcoming errors is a cause for
Celebration, not 'retribution'.
And folks need to understand that it's the absence of such that
requires one to 'jump up and down', not a spirit of 'retribution'.
If I didn't 'jump up and down', then it'd be me who'd be responsible
for the perpetuation of 'error'.
"Damned if I do. Damned if I don't."
All the Waste, inherent, needlessly exhausting energy that,
rightfully, should be going into the doing of useful Work.
I'm not 'seeking retribution'.
I'm just 'begging' folks to 'get their heads out of their butts'.
So that Neuroscience can Do what is in-Neuroscience to Do.
k. p. collins
Nick Medford wrote in message ...
>In article <3d64408d.177492917 at news.erols.com>, Ian Goddard
><igoddard at erols.mom> writes
>>>> IAN: Well, I can't say that I've met Harold Koplewicz,
>> but he's a leading proponent of bio-psychiatry and I'd
>> say he speaks for psychiatry's new paradigm. He said
>> this at the White House Conference on Mental Health:
>>>> "It's hard to believe that until 20 years ago we still
>> believed that inadequate parenting and bad childhood
>> traumas were the cause of psychiatric illnesses in
>> children. And in fact, even though we know better today,
>> that antiquated way of thinking is still out there, so
>> that people who wouldn't dream of blaming parents for
>> other types of disease, like their child's diabetes or
>> asthma, still embrace the notion that somehow absent
>> fathers, working mothers, over-permissive parents are
>> the cause of psychiatric illness in children. ... the
>> only way we can change that is through more public
>> awareness. I mean, essentially, these are no-fault
>> brain disorders.
>>>These diseases are physiological, they
>> respond to medicine."
>>Well, of course there is some truth in that last sentence, although
it would
>be more accurate to say they *sometimes* respond to medicine.
>>I'm not completely convinced that he is actually saying
environmental
>causes are irrelevant, the quote seems to have more to do with the
>important public-relations work of reducing stigma and blame, and
it's
>not clear from the above exactly which disorders he's talking about.
But I
>do take your point- if he's not actually saying that environment is
>irrelevant, he's certainly *close* to saying it.
>>I still find it hard to imagine that an otherwise intelligent (one
assumes)
>person can think that physiology and environment have no
interaction, but
>perhaps it is so. I'm pleased to say that I have not come across
this kind
>of extreme position in UK psychiatry though.
>>--
>Nick Medford
