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Interesting results... So, here's the story...
Before starting the podcast, when I had had enough of being told what to believe, I started writing things down with a view of one day writing a book (the second in my life). The title of the book was to be "A place of safety". Then https://twitter.com/apospodcast/status/1298543282079891456
Before starting the podcast, when I had had enough of being told what to believe, I started writing things down with a view of one day writing a book (the second in my life). The title of the book was to be "A place of safety". Then https://twitter.com/apospodcast/status/1298543282079891456
talking to others, including my co-host Matt,I decided that a podcast would be a better idea and we opted for "A place of safety?", with a question mark at the end, as the title. As time goes by I realise that, while the institutional logic of exclusion of services stems from the
hospital (mh services used to be just the asylums and their reason for existence was the perceived need to keep people who suffer at society's margins, excluding them), this is not immediately obvious to people in the Uk. While it is still visibile that institutionalisation and
violence increase as patients feel worse and get closer to the hospital (where the apex of violence and institutionalisation still happen), many still struggle to see how my critique of the hospital logic is in fact a critique of the whole system. The asylum system has invaded
the community when they closed. For this reason I was thinking that "the logic of exclusion" would be a better title to explain the"whole system"nature of the institutionalisation problem we face. It does surprise me that it got so few votes and that the original title got more
