1. Mad Studies: Critical developments always differed it seems 2. “Kritisch” und trotzdem nicht so offen – Zur deutschen Kritischen Psychologie Mad Studies: Critical developments always differed it seems Critique of (German) Critical Psychology in Relation to International Critical Developments and Disability Peer Work 1. Lack of Connection to Global…Continue readingMad Studies: critical, but how / kritisch, aber wie (en/de)
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The Myth of a Psyche for Real draft 10.07.25 The concept of the “psyche” and the idea of separating social and emotional aspects of experience are both subject to social construction, though not in a way that negates their reality. To separate the emotional in such an intense way as…Continue readingThe Myth of a Psyche for Real
Above all, barrier-free speech is also a question of recognizing the other person who experiences barriers From my point of view, it can be stated that in everyday practice, the medical model of disability is applied unconditionally and mercilessly in assistance and therapy, especially in those areas where the importance…Continue readingDe-discrimination, Communication and Disability
Plurality is equally a Disability issue Not all disabled people are on a same page. Forget about this classifying generalizing little helpful illusion. The barriers differ, the barrier experiences differ, the political stances are just as different as they are generally in society. No accord but it’s also not necessary…Continue readingPlurality is equally a Disability issue
Oxymoronic life #WorldMentalHealthDay Reminder: Diagnoses mixes cases, stories, motives, actions. Keep being scrutinous of those who use them on others or who insist on wanting to use them on themselves. Both in the end of the day promote upholding an allround dangerous system.Continue readingMixing minds in terminology
Sind Diagnosen die das geistige Leben anbetreffen hinterfragbar? (Fragment weiter unten.) Mind the Diagnosis? Diagnoses about the mind are > medicalized biologisations and > limitations in other broadly sociologistically and philosophically still adaptable terms > that claim a critiqueable objective terrain of knowing someone else’s ‘life of mind’. Psychologically it’s…Continue readingMind the Diagnosis? Sind Diagnosen die das geistige Leben anbetreffen hinterfragbar?
A start: Gender and pathologization I think Sigmund Freud mistook a “penis disgust” or rather maybe a “genital disgust” overall, even a rejection of a sexualization of gender as “penis envy”. Apart from that, “envy” is a questionable notion to diagnose as a “pathological trait” in people.Continue readingOn gender (1)