Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2005, at 18:11:31
In reply to Finally got to read it all - YAY » alexandra_k, posted by Damos on August 23, 2005, at 17:39:56
:-)
Sass says (paraphrasing here...)
in my opinion philosophers would be better off trying to imagine their way into the patients shoes making every effort to think feel and be like the patient...
And he quotes someone or other talking about Elvin Semrad (who I've never heard of...) paraphrasing again....
the great psychoanalyst elvin semrad could make any psychotic patient sane. by radical empathy making every attempt to think feel and be like the patient he succeeded in entering into their delusional world. he was able to draw them back out.
and what i want to say is... lets grant that thats what he did. lets just grant him that... if that is so then what is the process by which that happened? what does it mean to 'enter into the patients delusional world' - and how does one do that? And how... How on earth are you supposed to go about drawing them back out.
I was working this stuff out while me and Gabbi and Dinah were fighting over the small boards stuff over on admin.
(not to suggest that any of us were delusional lol!)I don't talk about 'treatment implication' stuff very often.. Actually that was the first time I've been so bold. I kind of feel like I don't know what I'm talking about... I'm not a clinician... What the hell do I know...
But then Ive spent a lot of time in hospital / supported accomodation talking and listening... and people talk to me about why they do not talk to their clinicians...
I was thinking of writing another peace on just that latter bit.
:-)
Yeah. Thats the seminar I gave couple weeks ago.
Thanks for taking the time :-)
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