Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
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> The anti-therapeutic civil libertarian stance often seems to reduce to liberal
> individualism. As my next-to-last post should make clear, I am as much of a
> critic of psychiatry as any, but the notion that people with addictions,
> significant psychiatric illness, character disorders, etc., are potentially
> "informed consumers" in the same way as consumers of toasters is absurd.
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There you go again squeezing everything into a ideological box where it does not fit. Civil libertarians are not "anti-therapeutic". Where do you get this from? The plans I have seen developed by the Soros Institute and others do not dump therapy or medicines from the regimen....what they do is promote community living, community supports, housing, etc. that it make it possible to live with a mental disability without being shut away in some institution. These supports are largely missing now.
Yes Andrew Goldstein sought help - he was not incapable of that. The tragic thing was that help was so incompetent.
Marta