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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





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