>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>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.
The plans by the Soros Institute? I haven't heard of them. Any further info?
Yoshie