More of the same…

children (not mine) bathing till they had blue lips! :-)

A Norwegian blogger writes about “more of the same.” I want to translate the last two paragraphs (here done a little freely):

“The Swedish psychiatrist and feminist Kerstin Aldén has said that where the patient’s narrative contains enlightenments and statements which challenge the psychiatric treatment personnel’s conception or idea about reality this awaken resistance and one questions the one who has pronounced her/himself. Diagnosis also reinforce taboos, by locking out what one in different time doesn’t want to define as problems. That psychiatric diagnosis can be politic repression ought to be known through history [she mentions Drapetomania or runaway syndrome here and refers to a Norwegian article with the heading 'When the means become holy…' Also see Citizens Commission on Human Rights]./…/

The diagnosis can make the patient’s relation to her (or his) own reactions alien, and make her seeing herself with the eyes of the one treating her – in the same way as she has identified herself with what the perpetrator said. The consequence of the diagnosis can become revictimization. As the essence in the trauma is extreme impotence (powerlessness) and isolation, the diagnosis can become more of the same: being exposed to other people’s power of definition and exclusion from the fellowship.”