3:08am June 2, 2014

➸ FWIW (because of an ask I just got)

okideas:

youneedacat:

okideas:

youneedacat:

I can’t stand Thomas Szasz. I can’t stand R. D. Laing. I can’t stand Peter Breggin.

I think they are professionals who have tried to hijack a movement of former mental patients, by becoming “dissident psychiatrists” who then go on to control their patients just as badly as anyone else in the…

That tendency for professionals to take over grass roots self-help movements is toxic. I’ve seen it in the battered women’s movement (now called domestic violence to please finders and run by social workers). It happens in some independent living centers. This tendency is important for allies to understand, recognize, and fight.

I’ve seen it in a lot of CILs, if not most that I’ve encountered.  I think any time something gets government funding it gets even more vulnerable to that than it was before.

Precisely, govt money usually comes w the demand for “accountability,” yet those performance measures are not set in the community. Politicos call this “cooptation,” by the way.

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