Welp, I’m back from my break. Feast your eyes to the right of this blog, after 3 months over-thinking how to set it up we now have a world of VODPOD, and I think it’s going to help. I’m just building the library now but once it holds a hundred or so clips will find [...]
Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Obama to McCain: CBT is shit-fer-brains
Posted in Art heals, Betrayal, CBT is shit-for-brains., Cool things to put on my blog, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Law, Media, Mental illness, Narrative competence, Wingnuttia on August 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »
The snakepit is doing its job
Posted in Force, Kick it over, Law, Mad in America, Media, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, That's entertainment, Torture, tagged Add new tag on May 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our officials do nothing while a flood of ink spills about the known atrocities taking place in Texas MHMR residential facilities. From my initial link three weeks ago on 800 disciplinary actions taken against Texas state schools, to the latest coverage of “choke holds, headlocks, torture, rape and death” in psych hospitals, perhaps our governor [...]
Help make Austin a safe zone for artists
Posted in A band you should know, Art heals, Humanistic psychology, Junk therapy, Kick it over, Law, Mad in America, Proper genius, Semiological guerrilla warfare, tagged City of groovers, I saw Nick Drake, John Breeding, Michelle Shocked, Robyn Hitchcock, Roky Erickson, Stop Electroshock on January 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
An action alert from Dr. John Breeding about the fifth annual Roky Erickson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social Celebrating Electroshock Survivors. As someone who has been out of the closet in love with Robyn Hitchcock for half my life, it blew my mind to see his stand-up appearance midway through the video; now all his songs [...]
To softer times
Posted in Betrayal, Biobabble, Child abuse, Class, Dirty Fucking Hippies, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Etiological ignorance, Family, Force, Humanistic psychology, Kick it over, Law, Mad in America, Mental illness, NAMI and I are One, Pharmageddon, tagged , ATCMHMR, My dinner is Andre, Psychoanalysis, SAMHSA, Transformation workgroup on October 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
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 month, that appear [...]
What if collaborators are going to hell?
Posted in Betrayal, Biobabble, Child abuse, Class, Dirty Fucking Hippies, Etiological ignorance, Family, Farewells, Junk therapy, Kick it over, Law, Liars, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, Narrative competence, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, Torture, Wingnuttia, tagged Satire is dead on October 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m scheduled to attend a commission on human rights meeting in a few hours but can’t sleep, thinking. All my friends are laughing at me up in heaven; I’ve been charged with ineptitude, reformist tendencies, unpunkrock hamfisted good will. I see them laughing, and hear them singing, there’s always someone to praaaaaaay for, and believe [...]
What I spurned on my summer vacation
Posted in Biobabble, Dirty Fucking Hippies, Etiological ignorance, Force, Junk therapy, Kick it over, Law, Liars, Mad in America, Mental illness, Pharmageddon, That's entertainment, tagged Assertive Community Treatment, ATCMHMR, Framing Discourse, Models of Madness, Stigma, There she goes my beautiful world on September 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
How psychiatry blames the victim
Posted in Betrayal, BPD et al., Etiological ignorance, Force, Kick it over, Law, Mental illness, Sexist bastards, tagged DSM, Fran Lyon, Prejudice, Psycho-bigots, PTSD, Rape on September 19, 2007 | 17 Comments »
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 are by [...]
These are the secrets that kill
Posted in Betrayal, Child abuse, Etiological ignorance, Family, Force, Law, Mad in America, Media, Murder is a Crime, Sexist bastards, Torture, We Love Women, tagged Brigitte Harris on September 15, 2007 | 11 Comments »
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 [...]
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