Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:53:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Alberto Fergusson <aferguss-AT-zeus.uniandes.edu.co>
Subject: Re: M-PSY: new to list


I agree with Miles comments about mental health costs
Alberto FergussonOn Sat, 2 Nov 1996,
miles wrote:

> personal interests: I am particularly interested in how to broaden
> Marxism's concerns with the individual. How desires, trauma, and
> individuated consciousness,and psycho-spiritual needs become as
> important as the basic social and class relations. I think Reich,
> Marcuse, Lacan, Critical Theory, and even Situationist writings can add
> to our understanding.
> Re World Health Org 2020 prediction: More is at stake here then costs.
> Of course the costs of most mental health intervention in mental 
> illness is measured from a long term as opposed to short term
> intervention and treatment methodology.So cost is high. But the real
> question is regards how people interface with industrial technologies,
> how work is arranged, and how the notions of self fulfillment are
> related to alienation of labor and capitalist "values"(economic and
> personal) and aspirations (individual and social).
> 
> Glad to be on board- Miles
> 
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