Wednesday, October 24, 2007

A united voice

I visited a NGO, self-advocacy group for people with learning disabilities today. Their approach is state of the art compared to mental health practice in Malaysia. It is an organisation run by serves users and the non-service user staff report to the ‘bosses’ it is soaked in empowerment and anti-oppressive practice. They follow the strategy ‘nothing for us without us’ – extremely inspiring!

And so to the writing. Today I further developed my thinking on the rise of CBT and the implications for social work and the service user. All roads lead back to Laing as a defence against the rational-scientific reduction of the human being by the expert.

Received the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (thank Ganesha for Amazon), which included all additional reading on a CD, fuelling the temptation to study the MA...

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