Sure. Forward is often a good direction.
Craig
At 12:50 01/02/2006, you wrote:
>Craig,
>
>Many thanks for the information and the way in which you have connected it.
>There have already been preliminary talks with ATC & CoC, but clearly, as
>you say there is room and reason for more focus.
>
>If it's ok with you, I'll send the points which you make to the EFTC Board,
>and if possible move forward with this.
>
>Anthony Slater.
>
>Director, Phoenix Haga.
>President, E.F.T.C.
>Folkenborgveien 198,
>1850 Mysen, Norway.
>Tel: + 47 69 89 82 50.
>Fax: + 47 69 89 82 51.
>e-post: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.phoenixhouse.no
>http://www.eftc-europe.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Therapeutic Communities
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Fees
>Sent: 1. februar 2006 12:21
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Totalitarian TC
>
>ATC, of course, spawned the Community of Communities project now at
>the Royal College of Psychiatrists, in part to address this issue in
>a therapeutic community way:
>www.rcpsych.ac.uk/cru/communityofcommunities.htm .
>
> From that has come a publishing project, underfunded, of course, but
>slowly pushing ahead, on Therapeutic Communities in Europe, as part
>of a broader series of volumes on Therapeutic Community Around the
>World. The basic structure is a Country-by-Country and
>sector-by-sector directory/guide to therapeutic community. This would
>or could be one place to work out how to indicate which "TCs" fall
>where. As a term which has been around since before the Second World
>War, I don't think anyone could trademark or patent or copyright
>"Therapeutic Community" or its various national translations
>(Therapeutische gemeinschaft; comunita terapeutica; communaute
>therapeutique and so on); but there could be an agreed 'kite mark' -
>a form of endorsement - used by EFTC/ATC/CoC to indicate communities
>which they are prepared to recognise as fit and proper in their terms
>
>The new TC-OF web-site won't be up and active for a while yet, but
>the "Therapeutic Communities in Europe" project has an ongoing draft
>list of therapeutic communities in Europe on the old site, at
>http://www.tc-of.net/webex/9 . At least one of the communities listed
>there has been questioned already on this list. Perhaps a more
>positive approach would be for EFTC/ATC/CoC/ perhaps CHG
>(Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities) and others to agree a
>way to indicate those it recognises. A symbol of some kind, which
>could go before or after the community's name in the listing.
>
>It would also be helpful to develop a dialogue - here or on the TC-OF
>email list, or both, or somewhere else if there is some better place
>- about those TCs (or places calling themselves TCs) of which you/we
>don't "approve", and why. The real route forward is an informed
>community of people, sharing information, which is something this new
>Internet-based technology makes wildly possible. The new TC-OF
>web-site, being wiki-based and therefore editable on-line, will
>enable an even greater degree of sharing and communication.
>
>Craig
>
>
>At 10:09 01/02/2006, you wrote:
> >Dear Salvatore,
> >
> >Many thanks for your message; I guess that you may well be right
> >regarding "organisations" that refer to themselves as "T.C". We have
> >also heard of the independent operators, who masquerade as
> >therapeutic communities in the past.
> >
> >It would be interesting to find a way to deal with this; I must
> >confess that I warm to the copyright or trademark suggestion; it
> >would be a good point for discussion at the next board meeting?
> >Perhaps we could also discuss the idea with the ATC and seek to join
> >together about issue.
> >
> >Anthony Slater.
> >
> >Director, Phoenix Haga.
> >President, E.F.T.C.
> >Folkenborgveien 198,
> >1850 Mysen, Norway.
> >Tel: + 47 69 89 82 50.
> >Fax: + 47 69 89 82 51.
> >e-post:
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
> >http://www.phoenixhouse.no
> ><http://www.eftc-europe.com>http://www.eftc-europe.com
> >
> >
> >From: Therapeutic Communities
> >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of RAIMO
>SALVATORE
> >Sent: 1. februar 2006 10:01
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: The Totalitarian TC
> >
> >dear tony,
> >I don't think that the episode is impossible to happen in certain
> >places which call themself TC. the fact is that "TC" has many
> >meanings or representations and there exist no shared quality
> >criteria about how a TC has to function.
> >I think that we all know programs, which we would not necessarely
> >call a TC, but they define themself TC and present themself as TC to
> >the pubblic opinion. I think that TC should become a kind of
> >registered trademark, and for using this term, organizations have to
> >fulfill strict criterias.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Anthony Slater
> >To:
> ><mailto:[log in to unmask]>THERAPEUTIC-COMMUNITIES@JISC
>MAIL.AC.UK
> >
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:58 PM
> >Subject: Re: The Totalitarian TC
> >
> >Rowdy & all,
> >
> >On a more serious note, I have looked at this old posting once
> >again, and tried to discover the e-mail address (s) of the authors.
> >My search (not very long I admit) took me to something called
> >Addict-L, but I was not prepared to spend more time looking. If you
> >or anyone else has the e-mail addresses of these people who are so
> >misinformed about the quality of treatment, standards of practice
> >which exist in bona fide European therapeutic communities, then
> >please do send it to me.
> >
> >The European Federation of Therapeutic Communities has members in 20
> >(now 21, new aspirant member) countries throughout the European
> >continent. The codes of practice are shown on our web site at
> ><http://www.eftc-europe.com/>www.eftc-europe.com , we have clear
> >expectations regarding resident's rights and codes of conduct, and
> >we demand the highest level of professionalism from all members.
> >
> >I and I'm sure my colleagues are more than willing to meet with
> >these persons and they can explain to me / us, and or if they would
> >care to send to me the address and names of the totalitarian "vomit
> >eating" therapeutic communities & directors, I would be more than
> >willing to visit these places and play my part on behalf of the EFTC
> >to expose this "vomit" methodology for what it is.
> >
> >However, if these persons are just throwing slander, so to speak,
> >then this is a waste of space. In the event that the authors are
> >based in the USA, then I will be available to hear something more
> >than gossip, in September in New York.
> >
> >I cannot for one moment accept that within the 21st century, in
> >regulated European therapeutic communities that this practice takes place.
> >
> > Anthony Slater
> >
> >
> >----------
> >From: Therapeutic Communities
> >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowdy Yates
> >Sent: 31 January 2006 13:41
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: The Totalitarian TC
> >
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >Just come across this old posting to another list. It's mainly
> >attacking me about an earlier posting to that list regarding the
> >roots of TCs. For some rewason, I don't think i saw it at the
> >time. I think it's quite interesting though (even if he is a bit
> >rude to me!). Deiner, the author is apparently that rare beast in
> >the USA, a Marxist. He clearly doesn't know I'm an ex-Communist
> >Party member myself! If nothing else, it tells us something about
> >where the opposition positions us:
> >
> > Maia criticizes the European-model TC, and reports a case of
> >'vomit-eating therapy'. Yates casts doubt on the truth of this anecdote,
> >and points to inaccuracy in Maia's account. But he promises to check the
> >facts.
> >
> > Tabloid-journalistic controversies of this sort are reactionary in
> >nature, regardless of how the facts check out.
> >
> > True or false (and it would not be the first time that an angry
> >ex-patient had exaggerated the abuse he/she was subjected to), National
> >Enquirer-type exposes only lead to the conclusion that EXCESSES should be
> >prevented.
> >
> > But Yates does not approve of excesses. (At least, 'vomit-eating
> >therapy' is not listed in the index of his book, co-edited with Barbara
> >Rawlings, Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Users).
> >
> > Like Geraldo, Maia makes a big splash that signifies very little.
>Yates
> >and others are willingly to denounce such abuses, and we end up with joint
> >approval for 'responsible' TCs. Sensationalism always has this status-quo
> >endorsing effect. By criticizing 'extremists', yellow-journalism endorses
> >the mainstream. The National Enquirer, like Maia, is really reactionary.
> >
> > The real issue isn't 'abuse' in a few TCs. The issue is the nature
>of
> >the GOOD TC. What is this movement all about? What are its cultural
> >origins? What social and economic interests does it represent?
> >
> > In the U.S., the early tie of Synanon to the broader TC movement is
> >interesting, NOT because of specific abuses, but rather because this tie
> >reveals the underlying cultural values and assumptions of the whole TC
> >movement. The widespread, early admiration for Synanon shows the
> >TOTALITARIAN potential inherent in all TCs. Synanon indicates where TC
> >values can lead.
> >
> > Yates denies that Synanon was the original model for the European TC.
> >True enough. But he errs when he claims that the AMERICAN TC movement
> >originated with Synanon. Though Synanon was influential in the U.S. fairly
> >early on, the real origin of the American TC was the BRITISH
> >military-psychiatry example. That is, American TCs and British TCS grow
>out
> >of the same cultural roots.
> >
> > Yates dissembles, surely intentionally, when he claims that the
>European
> >TC had a "democratic" origin.. This is pure bullshit, and Yates must know
> >it. His own book is part of a series which includes Tom Harrison's Bion,
> >Rickman, Foulkes and the Northfield Experiments: Advancing on a Different
> >Front (1999, Jessica Kingsley Publishers), and also the edited volume by
> >Penelope Campling and Rex Haigh (1999), Therapeutic Communities: Past,
> >Present and Future, which contains an historical-summary article by Tom
> >Harrison.
> >
> > I feel sure Yates knows this material.
> >
> > The European TC had its roots in BRITISH MILITARY psychiatry, during
>WW
> >II. The TC model was part of a 'war against mental illness', which itself
> >was thought of as an integral part of the larger war effort. The goal was
> >NEVER a democratic one. Instead, the goal was always to indoctrinate with
> >patriotic, traditional values those youths who had failed to 'do their
> >duty'. The goal was to shore up, and juice up, the cannon fodder, and get
> >it back out on the front lines. 'Democracy'??? Pshaw!
> >
> > Today, the 'community unity/productive work/moral values' rhetoric
>of
> >Yates, and his TC buddies, is part of a broader neo-conservative upsurge in
> >the U.K. This is the rhetoric of the reborn British right, with its call
> >for 'spiritual values' and 'cultural unity' (imposed by neo-totalitarian
> >means, such as the TC). E.g.:
> >
> > "Mrs. Thatcher wants her grandson Michael to grow up in a world
>where
> >'people accept their responsibilities to others. After all you are here to
> >use your talents and abilities, and you really only use them as part of a
> >community' [she said]."
> >
> > "Thatcher said. . . that she yearned for the return of traditional
> >values of fairness, integrity, honesty and courtesy. She was particularly
> >worried about young people, who were 'crying out' for a code of behaviour
>by
> >which they could live their lives."
> >
> > (both quotations from P. Heelas, 1991, "Reforming the Self:
> >Enterprise and the Character of Thatcherism," in Enterprise Culture, ed. by
> >R. Keat and N. Abercrombie, London, Routledge).
> >
> > Neo-conservative politicians and paymasters are wanting a mechanism
>by
> >which to teach the youth a 'code of conduct'. This code must conform to
> >neo-conservative values. Yates and his buddies have a 'code of conduct',
> >and a mechanism for inculcating the code into restive youths, to sell.
> >
> > Of course, the TC advocates in the U.K. are in competition with others
> >moral entrepreneurs. And some of the others promise more 'bang for the
> >Pound'.
> >
> > TC indoctrination centers have to compete with punishment advocates,
> >with short-term 'therapy' afficiandos, with the 'drug-'em-up' crowd, and
> >even with the New Religious Right. Each 'therapeutic alternative' tries to
> >capture market share. Government-corporate money and support decides who
> >wins, who loses. This jockeying for political-economic influence is not
> >'democracy at work'.
> >
> > The decay of the British economy, and the dismantling of the British
> >welfare state, has resulted in a massive fallout of 'mental health
> >problems'. 'Addiction' is one such problem. The TC is a totalitarian
> >means of indoctrinating reactionary values into disaffected persons, as a
> >means of overcoming resistance to reactionary social changes.
> >
> > TC indoctrination, drugging the poor, jails and punishments, and
>other
> >mechanisms of social control all form part of a SINGLE process. The
>British
> >rush to join the U.S. in its global 'War on Drugs/Terrorism' is part of
>this
> >same process. And 'addiction' is a core myth at the heart of this upsurge
> >in international political reaction.
> >
> > To understand this complex cultural and political event requires
>more
> >than a yellow-journalistic rants about 'vomit-eating therapy'. What is
> >needed is a serious and careful inquiry into the historical, cultural, and
> >political-economic bases of the 'anti-addiction' crusade.
> >
> > Cultural-historical inquiry has much to tell us about where we are
> >today, and where our societies are headed. Unfortunately, on Addict-L,
> >there seems to be little interest in where the anti-addiction crusade, or
> >the TC, has come from.
> >
> >
> >
> >Rowdy Yates
> >Senior Research Fellow
> >Scottish Addiction Studies
> >Department of Applied Social Science
> >University of Stirling
> >
> >E: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >T: 01786 - 467737
> >
> >W:
> ><http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/sections/scot-ad/>http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/se
>ctions/scot-ad/
> >
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>Dr. Craig Fees
>Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
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>United Kingdom
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Dr. Craig Fees
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Church Lane
Toddington
near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom
Phone/fax 01242 620125
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