Some TAU in contrast to honest reflections on Open Dialogue work, by Ole Ernst Larsen who integrates OD approach in Denmark. Sometimes patients are so difficult for the rest of us, which says something about us, its not the patients fault. (Ute... peers who have lived in altered quality realities and sensations may build lived bridges here.) Sometimes we still had patients who were difficult to help, and when we were discussing it someone from the staff asks: But what is the diagnosis? This one is stuck way down deep. As soon as we have a diagnosis, we have an explanation, right? Then were back in that consciuosness about making people calm down right now. Just to keep order. (Ute... y_our order) Ant yet this doesnt mean anything because the person still has the exactly same problems, despite the diagnosis. Yet many places this is how you get help: if you have a diagnosis you get help. (Ute...help for what?!) Your problems are the same (Ute... denied, pushed away by diagnosis). What we are doing right now is treating the diagnosis. (Ute ... invented symptom-homunculi... some horror, pls.) The patient is that poor person who carries that diagnosis - and has to wait until we have treated the illness- so they can move on in their lifes. Ute: hey, wait, you have not helped with the problem of crisis and what makes crisis, so how is the patient, instructed about his psycho-ness and unreliability, expected to move on ? Not kidding, when I ask long term halfway housed and medicated people if ever some psych professional asked what happened in their lifes the weeks and months before an extreme crisis, the answer is: no one asked. If I ask wether in halfway housing and with legal guardian something had been done about the real problems, the answer usually is: none. So after years people are patient-ized and no one has ever shown any interest in the real and heavy problems and predicaments in their lifes! You know what, in the beginning, I felt real disconnected, much worse than in a Brecht play. Than I got very very angry. And went on learning about IPS and Open Dialogues to better my peer working... with Hearing Voices/Unusual beliefs groups, the members of which have told me most about getting real in social dialogues. Now OPEN DIALOGUE in social networks and with mutual peer support - both respectful for each persons life and struggles, to learning from one another as complete people in collective gaterings - radically changes. Builds dialogues from real lifes and peoples real perspectives with respect, care, scrutinity, reflection, participation, healing, intergration, reconnection and makes people - moved by each other - move again in their newly own-ed and re-social-ized lifes. If you want to learn more how Open Dialogue works in Danish teams, watch the wonderfully reflective talk by Ole Ernst Larsen: Future Open Dialogue. (Nay, I edited out psychiatry.) I love to see and feel the care-fulness and reflectivity moving in Mr Larsens eyes. See, leiben (the lived living embodied human being) tells us ... listen with deep senses of leiben (life= Leben, body= Leib, live though body= leiben) with people. https://youtube/watch?v=s7113cg1g8c
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:39:08 +0000
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