Hi Rebecca,
Apologies for the exceptionally slow replies at the moment. I have a lot of
things to finish before the holiday.
> uncovering knowledge/truth but also generating and
> sustaining
authority--how to properly conduct research, classify
results, etc. Someone who started out with that kind
of humility would probably never make it through, for
instance, just the round of courses that faculty will
describe as trying 'to burn you out' or 'see if you
break.' So, perhaps part of the issue with authority
- I have never heard terms like that used in an academic context before but
I can imagine that they are present (in one form or another) in many subject
areas in the UK - not just the sciences. But yes, probably linked to issues
of authority. From very early on, scientists/medics etc are inducted into
ways of being that will almost certainly help to support the status quo...
> are then this means that large chunks of American
> society don't have access
> to therapy as an option at all.
>
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kind, since they could not afford it. And then some of
the, I think, better therapies, like the Narrative
therapy you mentioned previously, would not be covered
by insurance.
- I know that some GPs in this country will use part of their budget to fund
therapy for their patients. Many will not. A friend of mine was really
impressed that her GP sent her for counselling/therapy rather than
prescribing medication when she was going through a difficult period in her
life but after two sessions the funding was cut. She can't afford to 'go
private' so that was the end of that.
> - I used to spend a lot of time with my
> great-grandmother when I was very
> young (6 or 7 maybe). She had dementia but no-one
> in my family discussed
> it
And thanks for sharing the story of your
great-grandmother, it was vivid, I'd forgotten how my
own great-grandmother used to rely on talcum powder
and handkerchiefs!,
- Lily of the Valley or Lavender were the scents she preferred. Both of
them a hangover from Victorian times and earlier I think. Lavender - I
believe - was used to mask the smell of death during plague times. I never
really understood the handkerchief thing but I guess it relates to being a
lady, appropriatedly dressed and prepared for anything.
though sort of sad that her remark
made you dismissive and a little scared. But it must
have connected with a number of already received
assumptions of what it meant when she said that, even
if your family didn't discuss her dementia, there must
have been some idea of what it meant to be 'not right
in the head.'
- It was my grandmother (her daughter) who made the comment although this
doesn't change anything really. There had been a number of little asides,
comments and looks (rolled eyeballs etc) building up to this that I had
started to take note of. They had probably been present for some time but I
became more aware of them as I got older.
to the third person, and then you, as a child, being
caught on the hinge and switching to 'anyone's'
response which is dismissive and a little scared. But
what was really lost in that moment was both of you
and those moments of sharing as well as the stories
shared within them.
- I do remember the exact moment that she stopped being 'fluid' in my mind
and became a mad old woman and it is very sad. She is the person that
taught me to read and tell the time and told me stories about very early
20th century England that I just couldn't have got from anywhere else.
Though I hope you don't mind my
expressing this idea in the terms of this moment you
described. For I don't wish to intrude my reading into
it,
- Not at all. Thanks for sharing the story of the 'witch'. It made
me smile because I have a neighbour who seems very similar. She has herbs
growing wild all over the place, lots of cats etc. I wonder what the
children at the end of the street think about her.
Regards
Tina
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