Hello to PCP Networkers:
More comment:
No, we do not need to generate a hostile climate.
I repeat my suggestion -- let us stop using the diagnostic narrative in our
psychology courses on unwanted behaviors. Get the movement off the ground: Get
forty or fifty instructors to endorse - to a publisher -- a prospectus for a
psychologically-oriented textbook on unwanted behavior.
Stop talking about "disorders," "symptoms," "emotional disturbances,"
"mental illness," etc. Speak of unwanted behaviors.
Stop asking for grant money from agencies such as National Institutes for
Mental Hygiene. Seek funding from other sources, refraining from using dianostic
narrative language.
We need to make public our efforts to desist from using diagnostic
narratives.
We need to stop attempting to justify our using of diagnostic narratives.
{As I see it, there is NO justification for a psychologist to use such
narratives.]
Let's do it!!!
Jim Mancuso
--
James C. Mancuso Dept. of Psychology
15 Oakwood Place University at Albany
Delmar, NY 12054 1400 Washington Ave.
Tel: (518)439-4416 Albany, NY 12222
Mailto:mancusoj@capital.net
http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/soi
A website related to Italian-American Affairs
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Hello to PCP Networkers:
More comment:
No, we do not need to generate a hostile climate.
I repeat my suggestion -- let us stop using the
diagnostic narrative in our psychology courses on unwanted behaviors.
Get the movement off the ground: Get forty or fifty instructors to endorse
- to a publisher -- a prospectus for a psychologically-oriented textbook
on unwanted behavior.
Stop talking about "disorders," "symptoms," "emotional
disturbances," "mental illness," etc. Speak of unwanted behaviors.
Stop asking for grant money from agencies such as
National Institutes for Mental Hygiene. Seek funding from other
sources, refraining from using dianostic narrative language.
We need to make public our efforts to desist from
using diagnostic narratives.
We need to stop attempting to justify our using
of diagnostic narratives. {As I see it, there is NO justification
for a psychologist to use such narratives.]
Let's do it!!!
Jim Mancuso
--
James C. Mancuso Dept. of
Psychology
15 Oakwood Place University
at Albany
Delmar, NY 12054 1400 Washington
Ave.
Tel: (518)439-4416 Albany, NY 12222
Mailto:mancusoj@capital.net
http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/soi
A website related to Italian-American Affairs
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