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Post by flyingcarpet46 on Nov 6, 2021 11:08:15 GMT
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on May 27, 2022 21:00:27 GMT
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/11/24/book-review-madness-distress-and-the-politics-of-disablement-edited-by-helen-spandler-jill-anderson-and-bob-sapey/This link is review of Madness, Distress and ths Politics of Disability. The reviewer concludes: For those in need of a simple take-home message this collection is very likely to disappoint, but for those who are willing to wrestle with paradoxes and contradictions, it constitutes a very considerable and rewarding resource whose strength may lie precisely in its uncertainties, in its resolute refusal to permit itself to be classified as yet another critique of the medical model, instead feeling its way towards alternative understandings not through ideologies dropped from on high, but through close engagement with lived experience. The reviewer mentions several chapters including that of Anne Plumb:the UN CRPD;out of the frying pan into the fire. He writes : The author of a foundational document ‘Distress or Disability?’, originally written for the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People in 1994, Anne Plumb asks whether mental health service users/survivors should be subsumed within a broader disability movement. While some survivors/activists celebrate the achievements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Plumb has profound misgivings, maintaining that the premise behind CRPD that self-determination is paramount, and that people are able at all times, given the right amount of support, to express their own wishes, is deeply flawed. She writes movingly about her own experience here as well as that of the survivor activist Peter Campbell: How can we instruct an advocate when we ourselves may be bewildered by what is happening, especially if we have not encountered such an experience before? […] In hindsight, I may know what I do not want (for example, removal to a psychiatric ward, psychiatric medication or some forms of psychotherapy) […] However, at the time I was overwhelmed by confusion and indescribable despair (no imminent heaven on earth!) (193-94). Plumb agrees wholeheartedly that the really radical development in the survivor movement was its insistence on ‘speaking out’, but she is no less adamant in her belief that she does ‘not see this as claiming that we fully understand our experiences’ (186). Alert though she is to the unacceptable ways in which diverse authorities have responded to the risks posed by people in mental distress, she provides a robust justification for intervention as such. In her own case, for instance, she ‘very nearly stepped into a bath of boiling water in the belief that I needed to demonstrate faith in God (aka mystics running over hot coals)’ (190). The danger with those who uncritically embrace CRPD, Plumb claims, is that they risk running from the frying pan of traditional psychiatry into the fire of libertarian ideology.
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on May 27, 2022 21:52:04 GMT
Affadavit of Tina Minkowitz in a New York court calling for the adoption of UN CRPD.
I am an attorney licensed to practice in the state of New York since 2007.
My professional work has focused on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a core human rights treaty of the United Nations, which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 13,2006 and entered into force on May 3, 2008. My knowledge of the CRPD derives from an involvement in its drafting and in subsequent work on its implementation and monitoring at the international level, both before and after my admission to the bar. In particular, i participated in a 40member working group that developed a draft text for negotiation, and represented the World Network of Users and Survivors of psychiatry (wNUSp) and the International Disability Caucus throughout the drafting and negotiation process. I have contributed as an invited expert to trN bodies including the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, the committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the office of the High commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, and the open-Ended working Group on Ageing. Continuing to represent WNUSP (the lnternational Disability Caucus became inactive upon the conclusion of the negotiations), I have made numerous written submissions and spoken interventions to UN mechanisms on the rights of persons with disabilities. I have presented lectures and workshops on the CRPD throughout the world, and provide information and resources through a non-profit organization that I founded in2009, the Center for the Human Rishts of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
This affidavit aims to set out international law regarding the prohibition of nonconsensual psychiatric interventions. Such a prohibition is derived from an application of the principle of non-discrimination based on disability to universally recognized human rights to equal recognition before the law, to liberty and security of the person, freedom from torture and ill-treatment and free and informed consent in health care, which has as its corollary the right to refuse treatment.
This analysis has itself come into international law in the provisions ofthe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in the application of this Convention by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with niiabilities, agroup of independent experts authorized to make recommendations for its implementation.
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on May 27, 2022 22:49:16 GMT
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Post by flyingcarpet46 on May 27, 2022 22:50:07 GMT
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