MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'coercion'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952790&cid=t_114075_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F4jUNFKyD_os%2F By Aaron Ross PowellStephen Metcalf’s prolix takedown of Robert Nozick demands response, not because Metcalf has advanced a novel and Rawls-esque so-interesting-and-powerful-it-must-be-addressed argument, but because he precisely has not. Nozick is, justifiably, a hero of libertarianism (and liberty), and his terrific book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, as well as libertarianism in general, deserve better than Metcalf’s excoriation. My colleague Jason Kuznicki started things off admirably. At the risk of beating what ought to be a dead horse, I’d like to add a word or two of my own. I’ll avoid what Jason’s already covered. Let’s start with Metcalf’s very odd characterization of Nozick’s view of liberty as the primary value. He writes, “Nozick is arguing that liberty is the ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952790 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:26:25 +0100 4952790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813253&cid=t_114075_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_wrupaZeHWs%2F By David BoazPresident Obama has been saying that if the United States government can find and eliminate Osama bin Laden after ten years of searching, it can do anything: Already, in several appearances since the raid, Obama has described it as a reminder that “as a nation there is nothing that we can’t do,” as he put it during an unrelated White House ceremony Monday. On Sunday night, during his first comments about the operation, he linked it to American values, saying the country is “once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to.” This is, of course, nonsense. Finding bin Laden, difficult as it proved to be, was an incomparably simple task compared to using coercion and central planning to bring about desired results in defiance of economic reality. You ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813253 Wed, 11 May 2011 14:01:13 +0100 4813253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977337&cid=t_114075_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F09%2Fthe-psychology-of-hasan-the-ft-hood-shooter%2F I’ve held off in writing anything about the tragic Ft. Hood shooting, allowing some time for details to emerge and for emotions to settle. Random acts of violence always leave us all scratching our heads, but sometimes the violence seems so extreme, the act so irrational, one can’t help but turn and ask, “Why did he do it?” Major Nidal Malik Hasan is now apparently conscious and talking in his hospital bed, after being shot multiple times by Sgt. Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, who selflessly and heroically put herself in harm’s way in order to save countless of others’ lives. Munley is in stable but good condition and is very upbeat, according to news reports. Virginia Tech helped guide Munley’s aggressive response to Hasan’s shooting... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977337 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:07 +0100 2977337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2970278&cid=t_114075_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2FiXWyFI65ONU%2F This appeared in my e-mail inbox this week. You’re not f.ing nurses. Nurses work with doctors. Psychiatrists are not real doctors. So you’re not real nurses. You’re just trumped up prison guards, in prisons that hold the innocent. You poison peoples’ bodies with toxic drugs against their will. You carry out human rights atrocities every f.ing day. How dare you call yourselves nurses. I hope each and every one of you is killed by one of your torture victims. I mean that. Maybe one day you can get a taste of the trauma you cause in peoples’ lives each and every day. Many people could never live the career choice you have made, which is, to hurt people for a living. F. YOU. Your site is offensive, your FAQ is offensive, and you people are disgusting. Okay, which one of you gave Tom ... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2970278 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:43:33 +0100 2970278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2653666&cid=t_114075_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fv4MERyzbrMU%2F The recent focus in Washington on mortgage modifications once again illustrates one of the most fundamental flaws in current political debate:  the notion of using government to threaten or force the “voluntary” transfer of wealth from one group of citizens to another. Just this week Rep. Barney Frank warned the banking industry if they don’t “voluntarily” do more to reduce foreclosures, Congress will step in and make them do so, by allowing bankruptcy judges to re-write mortgage contracts.  This proposal is really nothing more an ex poste transfer of wealth from investors in mortgage backed assets to borrowers. Of course, Rep. Frank and others respond that they are only trying to “bring lenders to the table” in order to keep negotiations going... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2653666 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:42:48 +0100 2653666 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441172&cid=t_114075_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FEaAepPT_Nwk%2F George Will recently accused Obama’s token Republican, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, of being the “Secretary for Behavior Modification” because of his support for programs designed to coerce people into driving less. Speaking before the National Press Club on May 21, LaHood pleaded guilty as charged. In the video of LaHood’s presentation, he was asked if the administration’s “livability initiative” is really “an effort to make driving more tortuous and to coerce people out of their cars.” His answer: “It is a way to coerce people out of their cars, yeah.” The next question was, “Some conservative groups are wary of the livable communities program, saying it’s an example of government intrusion into people&... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441172 Thu, 28 May 2009 17:37:18 +0100 2441172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1964598&cid=t_114075_107_f&fid=36585&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FHighlightHEALTH%2F%7E3%2FBQ-_S2aYqZQ%2F Conclusion Well, what do you think? Have you made a decision? We’ve moved through each of the different attributes: needs, preferences, values and emotions. Did you find the articles interesting? Did you learn anything new? Was this a successful edition of Encephalon? I really enjoyed reading through each of the articles and learned quite a lot. My thanks to everyone that contributed articles — it’s been great hosting this edition of Encephalon. Be sure to take a moment and let your fellow bloggers know this issue is available so that everyone’s hard work can be appreciated and enjoyed by all. You can find both the hosting schedule and past editions at the Encephalon Archives & Calendar. The next edition of Encephalon will be at Ionian Enchantment on November 24th.... Highlight HEALTH blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1964598 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:20:10 +0100 1964598 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511310&cid=t_114075_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmentalnurse%2F%7E3%2FEtAokVjbot4%2F This post is specifically directed at Ted, our occasional representative of Thomas Szasz-esque libertarianism and opponent of all forms of coercive psychiatry. So, Ted, this is from me, a jackbooted representative of evil psychiatric totalitarian bastardry, to you, brave standard-bearer of freedom and liberty. And the subject of this post is: eating disorders. Just recently I’ve been spending time on secondment to our local eating disorders unit. It’s a relief for me to get back to doing what I consider to be true psychiatry (i.e. treating severe mental illness) rather than being at the CAMHS outpatient clinic coming up with a hundred tactful ways to say, “No, your little monster does not have ADHD. Can we interest you in a parenting class?” The ED unit is a harrow... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511310 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:18:58 +0100 2511310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=965274&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F20%2Fsofter-times-will-be-had-by-all%2F I went to 2 policy meetings today, which usually leads to the cussing, not-safe-for-work diatribe you’ve come to expect following these forays into the lions den. But institutional mental health is being re-organized in Texas, on the local, state and federal levels, and some demonstrable, incremental changes have happened since just last [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965274 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:33:21 +0100 965274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=959831&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Fhow-to-kill-empathy%2F This was especially useful tonight, but his speeches are often a thing of beauty, both intellectually and emotionally, and there are a ton of them at youtube. I’ll save my own impressions for later so as not to mar the experience of the viewer, but just offer thanks for Dr. John Breeding, who has taken [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959831 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:56:38 +0100 959831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=957347&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fbecause-enduring-ennobles-we-wont-be-discussing-that%2F I’m still having a hard time recovering from mental illness awareness week, migraines, can’t sleep and nightmares when I can, plus waking up crying. I woke up and hollered “Molly!” a few hours ago, and I’ve been drinking a bit to take the edge off, which is nothing to me but a clue. Molly Ivins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957347 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:59:50 +0100 957347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=944645&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F11%2Fdear-god-your-sockpuppets-are-calling%2F That would be the self-named Chosen who speak as icons of lucidity, praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on behalf of the crazy folk. Included in this week’s devotion to exploiting the children they deny they drove insane, NAMI held their National Day of Prayer for Those with Mental Illness on Tuesday. Though [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=944645 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:39:21 +0100 944645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=939859&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F09%2Fgood-boy-maybe-next-year-youll-get-tie-shoes%2F Awww, isn’t it cute? Psychiatrists have found a new word, and are all abuzz with the possibilities. What’s all this about mutuality? Let’s have a look: Collaborating with patients, John R. Elpers, MD, professor emeritus of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UCLA, and Gary Sachs, MD, director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=939859 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:26:23 +0100 939859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908673&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F27%2Fthe-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed%2F I’m back from the SHAC. My first impression is that the consumers are infantilized, they didn’t want to engage the medical director, they wanted to squabble with each other about soda and pizza. Not much dialogue, lots more when is the pizza coming? God! One consumer asked if there could be MORE [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908673 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:29:08 +0100 908673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=906160&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F26%2F374%2F Someone asked me if I believe in the biopsychosocial model of illness and recovery. This is the wrong direction to take regarding the previous post. It’s not important what I believe. I don’t need you to believe what I do. What’s important is what policy makers and mental health providers believe. I personally work to [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=906160 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:27:54 +0100 906160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894279&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F23%2Fwhat-i-spurned-on-my-summer-vacation%2F For the last few years I’ve been holding off on buying Nick Cave’s double-CD Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus until I do something sufficiently awful that I don’t have to but probably should if I’m to get along with my better self. I’ve met my share of challenges since the CD came out, and each [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894279 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:21 +0100 894279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=883800&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F19%2Fhow-psychiatry-blames-the-victim%2F A man rapes a woman, her resulting PTSD is misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder. Women who have been raped are traumatized and eligible for the non-punishing dx of PTSD, which sits on AXIS I of treatable mental illness. BPD is an AXIS II diagnosis, the AXIS referring to disorders of the personality, that [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=883800 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:57:27 +0100 883800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=873795&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F15%2Fthese-are-the-secrets-that-kill%2F Patriarchy: A social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children. I support Brigitte Harris, the 26-year-old New York woman charged with strangling and castrating her pig of a father for what he did to her because he could. What he did to his daughter (almost every type of sexual act possible from the time she was 3 years old through her young adulthood) is not remarkable. One in five girls grows up raped by a family member, night after night year in and year out. Our society condones this, if you find that hard to believe, listen to a victim. As if. Our society likes to believe that incest is taboo. Wrong, incest is ordinary. Revealing the truth of incest is what’s taboo. Victims who do tell are not believed. None of which is... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=873795 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:28:44 +0100 873795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=858444&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F10%2Fnote-to-compassion-trolls-not-here%2F If you knew me in real life you’d wonder when I’m going to get myself killed. All my friends do. Funny no one ever asks me that online, I wonder why. I’m not in hiding, it’s all out there, right, yes. So let’s not pretend. My life is made up of constant and vituperative battles with institutionalized authority, I’ve always been this way and always will. It’s part non-volitional upset and part performance, but it’s all real. The non-volitional upset is what control freaks tell me to analyze, and that they even make such a suggestion is endemic to the sense of entitlement I refuse to recognize and that got us into this fight in the first place. My refusal to knuckle under leads to even more outrageous demands for submission and I want that to... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=858444 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:16:56 +0100 858444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=852594&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F08%2Fwell-well-look-whut-the-cat-drug-in%2F It’s about time Democrats get with the program. Maybe we’ll see this happen on a national level, as the electorate increasingly demands it : Some Democratic state lawmakers and mental health professionals are criticizing a new plan to improve school safety, which calls for sharing private mental health records with government agencies. “I don’t think we can overreach and sacrifice patient privacy for the so-called benefit of public safety,” said Sen. Bob Hagedorn, D-Aurora, an advocate for health care reform. “That line in the report scares the hell out of me,” he added. “It’s repulsive to me. Are we going to get to the point where we post on the Internet the mentally ill much like we do with sex offenders?” The plan released Thursday came out of a three-month s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=852594 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:50:03 +0100 852594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=838928&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F03%2Fthe-key-to-your-heart%2F I wonder if any other negative creeps were outraged to see columnist Marc Fisher calling for our heads on a platter today. Read the WaPo column here. To recap, Cho’s high school got his parents involved which led to therapy and accommodations that appear to have helped him out. Under law those records are kept sealed, so his college administrators had no data about his previous psychiatric treatment. Evidently Fisher wants you to believe that had his records been available the massacre wouldn’t have happened. Because reading psych records is known to melt the hearts of authorities who then reward eccentric characters with the warm therapeutic attention we just don’t realize we crave. And if I kill you or whatnot, your hands are clean, because you were only acting on the s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=838928 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:13:42 +0100 838928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=835528&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F31%2Fchoosey-moms-choose-pepper-spray%2F At the Capitol Wednesday lawmakers held a meeting with the officials of the Texas Youth Commission, to hear how they’re coming with the sweeping reforms outlined in last session. I’m in such a pissy funk it’s taking 2 days and hard liquor to absorb the testimony. The only M.D. who spoke said what they need to do is take behavioral control of the population, and that he would diagnose “100 percent of the inmates with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” He then praised the cutting edge research of Harvard’s bi-polar child mafia, citing Biederman by name, as mark of credibility. There was no criticism or suggestion of internal controversy, and there won’t be, ever. A specialized medical practice is by definition out of reach from general discourse, the s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=835528 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:03:09 +0100 835528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=823058&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F26%2Fpolitical-reasons-still-rare%2F I got the “false dichotomy” stink eye reading this month’s Newsweek: Mental Breakdown, which predicts good old fashioned gallows humor just might have to make a comeback in Russia, ha ha ha, since over the past year at least 10 journalists, political activists or critics of local authorities have been wrongfully hospitalized in mental hospitals. And though forcible psychiatric treatment for political reasons is still rare, the Independent Psychiatric Association, a Moscow watchdog, says Russia’s mental hospitals are routinely used by unscrupulous relatives and criminals to remove inconvenient family members… Shame on those commies! That could never happen here. Oh but it does, but it’s not the same thing. This is America, we don’t do shit for pol... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=823058 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:53:37 +0100 823058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=770771&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F31%2Fcrazy-tramp-no-points-for-you%2F Put the coffee on, we’re about to dig deep. I was at my desk from 10 AM til 10 PM yesterday educating myself on Programs of Assertive Community Treatment. I’m still looking to volunteer on a local mental health board but will not collaborate with oppression, so am in pursuit of policy which I believe I approach with a moderate, multi-perspective fair mind, the one contribution I bring to the table. But it is so hard to find out what goes on, the well is poisoned by officious propaganda, it takes a long time just figuring out you’re being fed bullshit driven by hidden agendas. Paranoid? Maybe you should be. If I’m going to volunteer anywhere in Texas I have a right to know what I’m in for. Try getting the truth on ACT, which is a core program in my state and he... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=770771 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:44:14 +0100 770771 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=758739&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F26%2Fmental-health-bill-stigmatizing-activists-vow-fight%2F Chicago: Illinois lawmakers overwhelmingly sent a measure to the governor about two weeks ago that asks him to dilute the standards that must be met before a mentally ill person is involuntarily treated. Experts say the proposal is a knee-jerk reaction to the rampage at Virginia Tech earlier this year. Mental health advocates say the bill could force more patients unnecessarily into involuntary treatment – a cash-strapped treatment system already straining to help the state’s mentally ill. Under the current law, being physically dangerous to oneself or others is grounds for being subjected to treatment; the new law would change that requirement so that a person must simply be in danger of deteriorating into a dangerous state, as decided by a mental health professional. A spokesman for ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=758739 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:56:01 +0100 758739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=711805&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F03%2Fthe-pod-people-got-pbs%2F I’ve been having some browser drama these days, and just read this post at Hymes that got me typing. I typed near five hours and when I hit “post” the javascript in my new wrong Safari browser stripped every word, and there’s no snapback can retrieve it. I can’t sleep, I’m wound up, unable to remember [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=711805 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:39:00 +0100 711805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=655580&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F04%2Frape-victim-blames-herself%2F and I get triggered by the blogosphere, spent Saturday writing this post, where I accused bigtime liberal bloggers of doing cognitive butchery, then all day yesterday scarfing Tylenol, trying to get my head back on. I can recognize PTSD shit, but I have the schizophrenia too, and one feature of that is thought disorder, has nothing to do with anything but schizophrenia, so how do you do, pleased to meet me. Delusions and conspiracies and bizarre intellectual theories that make a kind of crazy sense, like reverse racism or psychoanalysis, I convinced myself that today’s liberal is basically a cognitive therapist, but I didn’t publish the post so a part of me knew I was off the deep end, so it wasn’t psychosis per se, which means a complete break with reality, but close eno... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=655580 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:46:59 +0100 655580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620673&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F12%2Falas-a-clue%2F I got involved in a thread again. I swear to god. These are liberals by the way. Feminists and liberals. I don’t know where to start, you have to start where people are, ok, but I’m just saying, pre-school is maddening. “Maybe psychiatric survivors are people, too, just like you and Johnny and Jane.” At least they’re talking, right? Out of their ass, for the most part, but it’s a start. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620673 Sat, 12 May 2007 06:01:12 +0100 620673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=593536&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F07%2Fred-eyes-and-tears%2F This article investigates the processes that successful stigmatized individuals use to overcome the harmful consequences of stigmatization. Specifically, this article reviews three processes: (1) compensation; (2) strategic interpretations of the social environment; and (3) focusing on multiple identities that have been identified in the literature to help stigmatized individuals handle prejudice and discrimination. Moreover, successful individuals adopt an “empowerment” model as opposed to a “coping” model when dealing with stigma. In other words, successful individuals view overcoming the adversities associated with stigma as an empowering process, as opposed to a depleting process. That’s it, the only paper I’ve ever seen on making stigma work for yo... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=593536 Mon, 07 May 2007 05:29:12 +0100 593536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=561827&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F22%2Fif-not-now-then-when%2F Cokie Roberts was wild-eyed on ABC’s Rountable this morning, calling for involuntary commitment, I’m trying to find the transcript. On Meet the Press Tim Russert interviewed the luminaries, among them Virginia Tech president Dr. Charles Steger: Russert: Let me ask you about the whole issue of mental health in, in students and refer you to an article from The New York Times, which I’ll share with you and our viewers. “English professors and students appear to have worked harder than anyone to intervene in [Cho’s] life. Trying to balance the freedom needed to be creative against the warning” sign—“signs of psychosis, as many as eight of his teachers in the last 18 months had formed what one called a ‘task force’ to discuss how to handle him, gathering twice on th... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=561827 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:05:39 +0100 561827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=560023&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F22%2Fmuscle-for-brains%2F The mental illness hysteria about Cho is a red herring. The law is sufficient as is to deal with perpetrators. The wingers are not calling to enforce the laws we have, but to make policy that targets people who who are tetched in the head and lead the sort of confounding, trippy lives they disapprove of. Don`t help me I can save myself If I’m incomplete don’t fill the gaps Save me from the people who would save me from myself They got muscle for brains It’s the coercion, period. The right wing authoritarian wankosphere has a hard on for power and control, and this massacre has them slobbering for it: Lowry: First, obviously there are gradations of strange behavior and mental problems. You have to draw a line somewhere and wherever you draw it is going to create problems... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=560023 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:35:51 +0100 560023 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=558058&cid=t_114075_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F20%2Fsharing-the-wealth%2F I’m surfing the theatre of cruelty this national day of mourning, will toss some links up later tonight. There’s that saying, something happens and the crazies come out of the woodwork, but all I’m seeing are crazy-haters today, doing god’s work, shaming the depressives. The fear-mongering DSM spewing psycho-bigots with their intimidating screeds on what to do with the severe and persistent mentally ill, that theatre of cruelty. I read the posts and don’t know where to go. I stare at the comment box and don’t know how to start. Vonnegut’s dead, Molly’s gone, I could tell them about my gramma, make them weep. Johnny Cash? I’ll use him, an American icon, we all agree on Johnny Cash. No, it’s that mental midget Nikki Giovanni, she ki... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=558058 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:21:53 +0100 558058