Paragraphein has a beautiful post about the new PBS documentary, The Lobotomist:
The common practices, the reactions to anyone “deviant…”, they’ve all evolved over the years. All products of their times.
What tends not to change, though, is the voices of the people who’ve lived through the basic, core experience: losing a child to adoption; suffering from a mental illness.
You’d think, this being the case, that whenever the “experts” have the next great idea, whenever they want to implement a new practice, they might thus stop to consult us–you know, the people who live it, and the people who–across the ages–tend to use the same metaphors for our experiences.
But too often, the “experts” don’t listen. Too often, they don’t even ask. And too often, it doesn’t even occur to them to ask.
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