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Santa Cruz NAMI to Host Deceitful D.J. Jaffe
NAMI invites D.J. Jaffe to tout anosognosia, part of his Insane Consequences book tour.
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Santa Cruz NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has invited D.J. Jaffe here to sell his book. He is a New York ad man (Foote, Cone and Belding), and uses his media and language skills to ostracize, to market shame. Like advertisers, he distorts and exaggerates, is renowned for encouraging lying to distort the degree of danger posed in order to get state and chemical control of family members.
His advocacy is zealous, misunderstands neurology, doesn't recognize that affect is not evidence.
Locally he is often cited by those urging implementation of involuntary outpatient commitment and those against best practice needle exchanges.
For every one of us with a psychiatric history there is a handful of family members advocating, from a mix of fear, guilt, support, and a yearning for change, for us without us. Without us, because they believe we are unable to choose for ourselves, and they've turned independence into a medical illness, anosognosia, and created their own reality with which to censor our voices.
Now in DC we are seeing these tactics focused on immigrants, journalists, … Jaffe was ahead of the curve in using them in the disability arena.
Tues. May 23, 2017
6:30 to 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 to 8:30 Program & Q/A
St John’s Episcopal Church
125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos
(State Park Drive exit, near Seacliff Beach, the church is on your right)
Santa Cruz NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has invited D.J. Jaffe here to sell his book. He is a New York ad man (Foote, Cone and Belding), and uses his media and language skills to ostracize, to market shame. Like advertisers, he distorts and exaggerates, is renowned for encouraging lying to distort the degree of danger posed in order to get state and chemical control of family members.
His advocacy is zealous, misunderstands neurology, doesn't recognize that affect is not evidence.
Locally he is often cited by those urging implementation of involuntary outpatient commitment and those against best practice needle exchanges.
For every one of us with a psychiatric history there is a handful of family members advocating, from a mix of fear, guilt, support, and a yearning for change, for us without us. Without us, because they believe we are unable to choose for ourselves, and they've turned independence into a medical illness, anosognosia, and created their own reality with which to censor our voices.
Now in DC we are seeing these tactics focused on immigrants, journalists, … Jaffe was ahead of the curve in using them in the disability arena.
Tues. May 23, 2017
6:30 to 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 to 8:30 Program & Q/A
St John’s Episcopal Church
125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos
(State Park Drive exit, near Seacliff Beach, the church is on your right)
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There is a growing call for institutionalizing the severely mentally ill in California instead of simply dumping them into the criminal justice system as is done now. Advocates claim it would be far kinder to get them into treatment, even if it's involuntary.
It's a criminal punishment system, not a "justice" system.
For more information:
https://thenewinquiry.com/free-us-all/
Sylvia, and others. Please help me. I am reading Jaffe's book, and I think many points are Duh. He's right, incarceration is awful and a more humane confinement a better solution, but confinement nonetheless. Free housing an expense that the government won't support for the time needed to settle. What about drug abuse? The downtown areas and neighborhoods are riddled with crime. The kindness of a community tolerance has been badly abused-- by perhaps only a few dozen but the impact is horrible. Those in crisis get lumped with those who have other agendas. I have specific counterpoints to DJ Jaffee in regards to models of peer counseling and non traditional approaches to hospital care that is shown to work successfully at El Camino, but we need more ideas. As an individual who experienced a spiritual crisis of a significant time, I can frame a bit but help me here please to articulate better the knowledge from your own journey when it comes to better solutions.
re: exposing psuedo-medical mythology: see Robert Whitaker's books Mad in America and Anatomy of A recent article:
re: Whitaker and NAMI: https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/07/nami-and-robert-whitaker/
re: NAMI: see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/health/22nami.html?_r=0
re: "Assisted Outpatient Treatment" or, more honestly, "Forced Outpatient Drugging" see http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-flaherty-court-order-mental-health-treatment-0201-20150130-story.html .
re: Whitaker and NAMI: https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/07/nami-and-robert-whitaker/
re: NAMI: see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/health/22nami.html?_r=0
re: "Assisted Outpatient Treatment" or, more honestly, "Forced Outpatient Drugging" see http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-flaherty-court-order-mental-health-treatment-0201-20150130-story.html .
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