2020: Issue 4 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Tracing a history of community practice offering hope for the future — Jill Freedman

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:46:42 +0000

In this piece, Jill Freedman traces the history of community practice as a mode of offering hope for the future, through reflecting on Chris and Margaret Beels' contributions.

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Social class, disability and the lessons of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation for prison abolition: An interview with sociologist Neil Gong — Neil Gong

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:35:44 +0000

Consumer academic Rory Randall interviewed sociologist Neil Gong about his research on social class and mental health care in the United States. They discuss Neil’s analysis of the differing models of client choice and freedom in public safety-net services and in elite private clinics, and what this means for service users. They also discuss Neil’s political writings on psychiatric deinstitutionalisation and the lessons that history holds for movements to reform or abolish police and prison systems.

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Reflections on an Interview with Chris Beels — Marilyn O’Neill & Gaye Stockell

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:29:48 +0000

Marilyn O'Neill and Gaye Stockell reflect on the interview with Chris Beels published in this issue of the journal.

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A social psychiatry that responds to social ills? — Hamilton Kennedy

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:25:59 +0000

In this piece, Hamilton Kennedy reflects on the potential of a social psychiatry as a response to social ills.

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The visionary gleam — Brian Stagoll

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:17:16 +0000

In this short piece, Brian Stagoll presents a meditation on the interview with Chris Beels published in this issue of the journal.

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Chris Beels and Margaret Beels (Newmark): Interdisciplinary role models and pastoral mentors helping us find viable pathways to our collective futures — Alan Rosen

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:11:08 +0000

In this piece, Alan Rosen reflects on the interview with Chris Beels published in this issue of the journal.

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Teaching through history to create a third, unheard voice in psychiatry: Stories from New York City — Chris Beels

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:06:33 +0000

Chris Beels was part of a ground-breaking group of psychiatrists who, in the 1960s and 1970s, established a family-therapy-based community service in the Bronx, New York State, for people living with psychosis, and their families. Taking over an old abandoned post-office, bringing multiple families together around shared concerns, engaging the support of local ministers, and teaching histories of psychiatry, were just some of their creative and innovative practices that showed significant benefits and popularity, over and above traditional practices of hospitalisation or emerging drug treatments. Chris and long-time friends and colleagues reflect on what worked well, what has remained, and what prevents similar approaches from operating within the current US economic and cultural climate.

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Response to Beyond a genetic condition: Becoming more compassionate about myself as part of the ‘normal diversity of the human community’ — Tiffany Sostar

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:56:56 +0000

This paper is a response to Nichola Garde and Mariangels Ferrer-Duch’s interview ‘Beyond
a genetic condition’ (in this issue), and describes a potential narrative practice based on the
themes in that interview. By inviting rich conversations about experiences of disability within
social contexts, space was made to explore the ways in which conversations, including both
the language used and the communities and companions we are in conversation with, allow
community members to stand against ableism and treat our own disabled selves with care.

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Beyond a genetic condition: Becoming more compassionate about myself as part of the ‘normal diversity of the human community’ — Mariangels Ferrer-Duch & Nichola Garde

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:48:14 +0000

This interview was sparked by the Dulwich Centre Friday Afternoon video Relocating the problem of disability: Norm Kunc, Emma Van der Klift, Vikki Reynolds and Aaron Munro, and in particular, the idea of ‘the normal diversity of the human community’, as expressed by Norm Kunc. This video presented a turning point in Nichola’s thinking about being an advocate for people with disability and genetic conditions, and provided a link between the social model of disability and self-compassion. Mariangels and Nichola reflect on the battle to be seen as ‘ordinary’, the legacy of adoption and the labour of representing difference.

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Cultivating green parenting to respond to climate change: An interview with Liberal Seburikoko — Liberal Seburikoko

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:39:57 +0000

Narrative practitioners are responding to climate change in a wide variety of ways. But, as we know, the effects of climate change encroach far more on some communities than others, with direct and profound implications for people’s lives, livelihoods and opportunities for continued subsistence. A group of workers at SOS Children’s Villages in Rwanda are responding to complex new challenges that have arisen for families as a consequence of extended drought. In this interview, Liberal explains the green pilot project, which recognises how family, community and planetary survival are inextricably linked. By combining education in agroforestry and parenting skills, and using knowledge and metaphors of kitchen gardening, the project supports families and communities to remain together through the development of sustainable, local food production while nurturing the wellbeing of children. Liberal was interviewed by David Denborough.

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The garden metaphor — Beata Mukarusanga

admin@dulwichcentre.com.au — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:22:09 +0000

Inspired by the folk cultural methodologies developed by narrative practitioners, such as the Tree of Life and Team of Life, this paper describes the use of gardening metaphors in work with adults and young people in Rwanda. Many Rwandans have experiences of farming and gardening and readily took up gardening metaphors to reflect on their experiences, developing ideas like the need to ‘weed’ unhelpful influences, protect themselves from ‘pests’ and keep their preferred values and skills well ‘watered’. Using this culturally resonant language allowed us to move away from Western ways of understanding to elicit and value local knowledges and cultural practices, including exploration of the ways in which expert knowledge about tending crops could be applied to the care of children. In this way, the use of gardening metaphors contributed to decolonising therapeutic practices.

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