Right, liberty and the pursuit of mental health

Saper, Bernard

doi:10.1002/1520-6629(197501)3:1<3::aid-jcop2290030102>3.0.co;2-#

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“…In Riger's () classic work “What's Wrong With Empowerment,” the author posited that CP's emphasis “leads us to study individuals’ sense of empowerment rather than actual increases in power” (p. 280) and that the focus on “agency, mastery and control” overlook other dimensions of empowerment, such as “community and connectedness.” Here, the operative phrase may be “actual increases in power” because the literature that specifically drew a link between empowerment and power discussed individual‐level personal power (Sullivan, Campbell, Angelique, & Eby, ), as well as its connection to power as related to liberty (Saper, ), justice (Prilleltensky & Fox, ), community organizing (Speer & Hughey, ; Speer, Hughey, Gensheimer, & Adams‐Leavitt, ), and systems change (Christens, Hanlin, & Speer, ). See Table .…”

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(Em‐)powering Community Psychology Through an Examination of Social Power

Angelique

Rodriguez

Culley³

et al. 2013

Journal Community Psychology

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To assess the scope of analyses of social power in community psychology (CP), we examined articles published in the American Journal of Community Psychology and Journal of Community Psychology from their inception in 1973 through 2010 for reference to the concept “power.” We discovered two historical points, 30 years apart, where power gained attention: early in the development of the field as it moved away from individualized notions of mental health and more recently as attention has shifted toward psycho‐political considerations. Despite the belief that power has been neglected in favor of its linguistic relative, “empowerment,” we found that scholarship spanned ecological levels, including individual (e.g., empowerment, referent power, and citizen participation), group (e.g., communities and organizations/institutions), and structural (e.g., macro concepts and marginalized statuses) analyses. By synthesizing scholarship on power in CP, we can provide a foundation from which to expand the field and effect social change.

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(Em‐)powering Community Psychology Through an Examination of Social Power

Angelique

Rodriguez

Culley³

et al. 2013

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Other psychiatrists find nothing redeeming in the dehumanizing "total institution" and find it abhorrent to pass the buck to the often poorly trained "paraprofessionals" who cannot treat patients any better than they can. The legal system finds them a copious source of abuses of the human and civil rights of patients (27). None of these reactions conveys an accurate or complete picture of the pros and cons of state hospitalization.…”

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“…The legal system, particularly the American Civil Liberties Union, has been repelled by what they assume to be ('behavior modification" with unconsenting patients, clients or prisoners whose basic human rights thereby were infringed (27). An excellent, objective analysis of these issues from the legal perspective has been contributed by Wexler (34).…”

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Saper

1975

J. Clin. Psychol.

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PROLOGUEFred Thorne's professional career reminds me of the self-aggrandizing young lad who could boast: ('In my lifetime I have been beaten up by kids of every race, color, creed and ethnic origin." During the 15 years that I have been associated with Fred, hardly a year has passed when he has not been in the thick of one controversy or another, or under attack over one issue or another.He espoused "directive" counseling in print, almost defiantly, when Rogerian "nondirective" counseling was fashionable. He rushed into an editorial with a controversial hypothesis as to why certain psychologists become clinicians and found himself deeply embroiled in charges of antisemitism. When nonpsychologist Ayn Rand came forward with her "objectivist" philosophy, Fred championed it in his editorials and elsewhere-to the dismay of some of the more traditional psychologists among his readers. He has been an unrepentant foe of behaviorism, and when he took on, via editorials and special features, Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity-he might well have boasted that he had been in a real fight.Fred is a maverick not only in psychology, but in medicine. He could be cast easily as a hero of one of Ayn Rand's novels. He is a fiercely independent, unfettered and unbranded psychologist. His hobby is trains and railroads, and it is almost symbolic of his free spirit-always going somewhere, and usually on his own track.The article that follows concerns an area that has interested Fred for decades.

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Rights of the Mentally Disabled: A Bibliography

Ziegenfuss¹,

Ziegenfuss²

1980

The Journal of Psychiatry & Law

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Right, liberty and the pursuit of mental health

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(Em‐)powering Community Psychology Through an Examination of Social Power

(Em‐)powering Community Psychology Through an Examination of Social Power

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Rights of the Mentally Disabled: A Bibliography

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