Posted by toojane on February 1, 2007, at 19:39:52
In reply to Re: Abusive therapist *TRIGGER*, posted by one woman cine on February 1, 2007, at 18:31:49
> I did not say, nor ever advocate for a anyone to be treated against their will. Ever.
I have misunderstood you. I apologize if I have misrepresented your position inadvertently.
> I stiil believe that if your are an academic community to which certain rules are held - than if you should choose to try to kill yourself, then you are either given the choice to try to accept help or leave school.So you believe it is acceptable for a university to mandate therapy for suicidal patients and to expel them if they refuse?
Do you also think it would be acceptable for the same university to mandate chemotherapy for students with cancer and to expel them if they refuse?
Both conditions are potentially fatal, except one is a physical illness and the other is a mental one.
I think most people would be against the university interfering in a student's decisions concerning their physical health (obviously contagious conditions are an exception). But, unfortunately, the same respect is not usually afforded to people regarding their mental health.
> Psych associations train people - they have no clue or idea that giving someone a degree, they will hurt a patient. It is insincere to think otherwise.
Really???? You do not believe that it is terribly troubling that associations and universities seem unable to screen the people they train as therapists for characterological and psychological problems? You think it is reasonable that they "have no clue or idea...they will hurt a patient." That over years and years of education, no one notices the person has serious ethical failings.
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