Here is something for Academics Activists alike...from Socialist Patients Collective...based in University of Heidlberg Germany by Wolfgang Huber The article is titled SPK turn illness into a weapon.....not since the days of Ken Davis Kill that Cripple 1995 have I read good Social Model of Disability speak.....Rejection of Medical Model from Psychiatric patients I think and they are good to read. Wikipedia quote this...The SPK established a free space for political therapy, re-framing illness as a contradiction created by capitalism which could be embraced to bring an end to the system which gave it life. They believed that the sick formed a revolutionary class of dispossessed people who could be radicalized to struggle against oppression. Organizing by sickness instead of socio-economic class allowed middle-class student leftists to articulate their own feelings of psychic and political oppression and to struggle against the status quo in their own right in solidarity with other oppressed groups. Additionally, according to the SPK sickness had the advantage of being familiar to everyone, hence everyone was a potential revolutionary so long as they disavowed the medical establishment. Like other anti-psychiatry experiments, such as Kingsley Hall and Villa 21, SPK questioned the patient/doctor paradigm and ultimately called for an overthrow of the doctors class.[ spkpfh.de/Turnill.htm
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:25:07 +0000
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