The right not to talk
This post is inspired by Helen Sparkles’ comment under an earlier post. It raises an issue which, to be honest, I have not given much thought and I was quite struck by the challenge it offered. The comment can be read in a fuller account in a blog post (you can also find the author’s details there). For me the comment raises quite a fundamental issue about clinical communication, one which, I think, is rarely pondered outside, say, psychotherapy. Should we communicate at all?
Will you listen to me?
Some time ago, I insisted that ‘It’s not OK to talk’. I quoted an article in which an American professor described his experience of psychiatric ward. Unsurprisingly, the account was anonymous. And this what I want to write about again. It’s not OK to talk.
Questions do not push buttons
It’s like clockwork – open questions come back regularly. This time closed questions are juxtaposed with the intellectual programme of the Open Dialogue, which, presumably, should be based on open questions. And, I am sorry to say, it’s nonsense.
How I exploit your generosity
Foreigners again. A day or two after the government suggested the lists of foreigners will be secret and I asked myself, where the hell do live now? As I see more and more articles, messages, tweets about ‘the foreigners’, it’s time to start resisting. Yes, by every linguistic tool available! Continue reading “How I exploit your generosity”