tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post8390832686473748931..comments2023-11-14T20:22:36.929-08:00Comments on Knowledge Is Necessity: Thanks to Stupid Advocacy, Your Life is Worth One Lousy PennyJohn McManamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-35407251507991912512010-11-03T09:25:11.984-07:002010-11-03T09:25:11.984-07:00Hey, N. I'm so glad you found your way here an...Hey, N. I'm so glad you found your way here and left a comment. I've been following the exchange between you and Whitaker on your blog with great interest and look forward to reporting on it here. <br /><br />(Readers: Check out "Ruminations on Madness" at http://phenomenologyofmadness.wordpress.com/)<br /><br />Clearly, Whitaker is guilty of cherry-picking research results, as John McManamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-1145204990104212272010-11-03T07:46:21.077-07:002010-11-03T07:46:21.077-07:00I'm relieved to see someone (else) attempting ...I'm relieved to see someone (else) attempting a more nuanced evaluation of the strengths and limitations of Whitaker's work. Certain activists' uncritical affirmation of the truth and putatively evidence-based nature of Anatomy's claims (without having ever read the original research in question, which Whitaker so often misconstrues) is really troubling to me (just as troubling Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-37744852380734261332010-10-28T14:04:49.065-07:002010-10-28T14:04:49.065-07:00Hey, Willa. Git rippin'. :)
That's why it...Hey, Willa. Git rippin'. :)<br /><br />That's why it MADison Ave. :)John McManamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-46362704097767298962010-10-28T14:03:17.246-07:002010-10-28T14:03:17.246-07:00Hey, Tony. Is there a patron saint of lost causes?...Hey, Tony. Is there a patron saint of lost causes? :)John McManamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-19829560686123193182010-10-28T13:36:12.951-07:002010-10-28T13:36:12.951-07:00I'll be working on that advocacy campaign over...I'll be working on that advocacy campaign over on my blog in the next couple months. Need to clear that damned cost/benefit algorithm off my plate. Then, let the ideas rip!<br /><br />I have a hunch that Madison Avenue is full of us BPII's.Willa Goodfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05816752444634576606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-87537621360135659472010-10-28T12:28:52.542-07:002010-10-28T12:28:52.542-07:00Reasonable discourse and criticism? In America? Im...Reasonable discourse and criticism? In America? Impossible! Just ain't in our nature in the good ol' USA. ;)<br />I am glad you are trying to do the impossible. Puts the issues into their proper perspective. All about nuance that trips up most everyone.Tony the cretinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053051880533035822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-30595724586475850022010-10-28T11:22:25.047-07:002010-10-28T11:22:25.047-07:00loved the penny analogy :) yanniloved the penny analogy :) yanniedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05902226961348806119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-86670849064055904612010-10-28T11:21:14.922-07:002010-10-28T11:21:14.922-07:00loved the penny analogy :) yanniloved the penny analogy :) yanniedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05902226961348806119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-80013102952923671622010-10-28T10:13:42.066-07:002010-10-28T10:13:42.066-07:00Many thanks, JustMe. I'll be following up on t...Many thanks, JustMe. I'll be following up on the research angle in my next piece. Stay tuned ...John McManamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-21710374041781354532010-10-28T10:10:20.296-07:002010-10-28T10:10:20.296-07:00Hey, Moodindigo. Yes, he wears his resentment like...Hey, Moodindigo. Yes, he wears his resentment like underwear on the outside. This is both good and bad. We need an intelligent counter to the psychiatric party line, and Whitaker certainly provides this. The guy does his homework and makes very convincing arguments.<br /><br />The points he raises in his book need to be discussed on every level, and I'm doing my best to get them discussed John McManamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857174305041382349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-12131061154685425072010-10-27T20:21:46.514-07:002010-10-27T20:21:46.514-07:00It is sad and shocking to know how little is being...It is sad and shocking to know how little is being spent on studying mental illness and how to prevent/correct it. It pains me because I have lived most of my life with severe mental illness and have fought for the little help I have been able to receive. Fortunately, I have wised up and am doing much better due to receiving ECT. <br /><br />Thank you for taking the time to write about these Just Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06182345687430630873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1098361547792425611.post-38886462241687690092010-10-27T20:09:57.284-07:002010-10-27T20:09:57.284-07:00Even though Whitaker wants to present his book lik...Even though Whitaker wants to present his book like it is as objective as a systematic review,in person and on video, he sounds like he has some resentment against psychiatry.<br /><br />While there could be some truth to what he is saying it doesn't follow that we should abandon the biopsychosocial model that we have at the moment. In the book, at one point, he did strike me as extreme as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com