Dear Richard,
If you are at liberty to do so, could you give any further
information about the interesting concept of
peer recovery teams in Peterborough, as I know a professional who
might be able to adopt this strategy into a current research project
touching on matters of interest to community psychologists, though
not one of these himself. If so, many thanks.
In the 1970's David Rosenhan, author of the above bon mot, (who
ventured into "insane asylums" as a supposed patient, and found the
other inmates spotted the deception whereas the staff did not!) was
advocating using what were also then unsatisfactory diagnostic
categories, to help individuals benefit despite an imperfect system.
He explained to postgrads at LSE, how he personally used the existing
categories to this end in the USA. It has probably always been thus,
and better to bend to the clients needs than incarcerate women who
became pregnant out of wedlock as has happened in the past, and so
forth.
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