Posted by Quintal on December 3, 2006, at 15:08:48
In reply to Re: Illness increases vulnerability to the irratio » Quintal, posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 14:38:32
>I would say you are rather impolite with me and presumptuous about my values.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!
Well, what's good enough for the goose...........
>Advocacy of Torrey's views is not a qualification
>for incarceration. And when I speak of Torrey's
>views, I am not referring to locking up depressives or bipolars and using a whip -- i am referring to open clinics that all people with private or domestic or psychological problems can go to for >medical help, instead of church basements and minimum care.Many of us already have or are aiming for this in conventional psychiatric care, psychological services and counselling of outpatients as far as I'm aware. It's not unique to Dr. Torrey's view. I can't help be think you quote such a controversial figure to provoke, which I like up to a point. It sharpens us up.
I do agree with involuntary incarceration under certain circumstances. I have a friend who has Paranoid Schizophrenia and seeing her psychotic attack a shop keeper who was painting a sign saying "Weigh No More" onto the front of his health food store (she was going through a period of anorexia and assumed he was trying to torment her) was enough to persuade me that hospitalisation of people who are actively psychotic is valid.
Q
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