Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:47:44 +0100 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-PSY: Re: :empowerment >I'd certainly be interested in reading 'Here be Dragons...' and if it's too >big to post, perhaps a copy could be sent to me as an attachment and I'll pop >it on the web for all to read if they choose. Tell you what. Get hold of the hard copy from Sherri-Baby (con permiso!) -- cos that's all there is if I've been paying attention, and use the college's facilities to digitize it and get it on the web. Seems this is something a number of us are interested in. >My interest in this area stems from my partner's work with young people >diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her thesis for an MA was that the individuals >giving care need to be empowered themselves if they are to help others they >care for gain empowerment. Since writing the piece she has come to realise >just how important the _wider_ structures of power are in this. >>From my own perspective the issue of empowerment needs to be seen in some >sort of dialectical relation to these wider structures. For sure, we are all >alienated and restricted by wider social structures be they hierarchies, >patriarchal power or the commodity form etc (no one can buck the market in >capital!). However, individual empowerment is important within this. We all >need to have at least a sense of individual empowerment if we are to >collectively change it. Only as a group can we really change the bigger >picture and yet we each need a sense of political direction and personal >agency. Which is why I like to respond when my partner mentions empowerment >with=7F: 'Yes Indeed- All power to the Soviets!' You beaut, Russ! Now, if only you were organized... Cheers, Hugh PS Would it be too out-dated to ask if R D Laing and his ideas fit into this anywhere? Now Gestalt and R D Laing -- there's an explosive mixture for you (oh yeah -- if you have Reich as a catalyst of course -- almost forgot!) Wolfi --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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