Posted by Jost on September 14, 2006, at 19:59:42
In reply to Re: internet and the manufacture of madness... » Jost, posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2006, at 23:21:48
From the comment (which might not be about everything in the initial article), the article discussed severe neurological disabilities, and their relevance to patient autonomy. Not mental illness type disabilities--although perhaps they draw conclusions about that, too-- but it seemed more concrete types of neurological deficits.
He gave the case of John-- I wasn't sure what neurological deficits John had, but they were described as severe. More importantly, it seemed, John not only lacked the ability to recognize through his self- observation that he had a deficit, but also the ability to integrate information from others to that effect.
The authors seemed to use this to draw a conlcusion that a person with neurological deficits needed to be able either to observe the deficit and/or to take in information from others about the deficit to be able to have autonomy. Or that inability to do these things would impair or exclude autonomy.
Since I found myself disagreeing, on a basic level, with this premise--although it might have some truth too-- I didn't read that carefully. The commenter's view is probably closer to mine--
even more so, if the ideas that I mentioned before (about the high jump, eg) were applied to socalled "mental illness."
I'll look at the initial article, though--
Jost
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