Marta Russell wrote:
> 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
What I meant to criticize is the tendency towards a political stance that gives primary emphasis to the supposedly self-actualizing individual. This can be one of the points at which the right makes inroads on the left. Thomas Szasz is a gross example.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema