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especially, though I am not sure what to make of it. The obvious interpreta-
tion is that even people who are committed to transforming practice remain
happier writing about ideas.
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all lIfe Is movement. for Instance, one may be hIgh or low, be be-
sIde oneself . . . go back or stand stIll. of these movements, the
last two In partIcular tend to earn the attrIbutIon of schIzophre-
nIa. perhaps the most tabooed movement of all Is to go back. . . .
at cooper's vIlla 21 and In our households, thIs movement has not
been stopped. If allowed to go on, a process unfolds that appears to
have a natural sequence, a begInnIng, mIddle and end. Instead of the
pathologIcal connotatIons around such terms as “acute schIzophrenIc
breakdown,” I suggest as a term for thIs whole sequence, metanoIa.
r. D. lainG,
1967 (quoted by howarth-wIllIams 1977, 80-81)
perhaps the most central characterIstIc of authentIc leadershIp
Is the relInquIshIng of the Impulse to domInate others. . . . the
mythIcal prototype of the InauthentIc leader Is wIllIam blake's
urIzen, the man of horIzon, of lImIts, control, order. . . . the
nazI death camps were one product of thIs dream of perfectIon. the
mental hospItal, along wIth many other InstItutIons In our socIety,
Is another.
DaviD CooPer,
pSychiatry and anti-pSychiatry
(1967, 96-97)
there was a specIal psychIc atmosphere wIthIn the communItIes; there
was a hope and a promIse; there was a feelIng of the growth of con-
scIousness, of evolutIon. . . . It was a spIrItual refuge, a place
where one could grow and change and learn In a way that was Impos-
sIble outsIde, lIke a monastery or a cave In the mountaIns.
DaviD Burns,
the david BurnS manuScript
(2002, 20)
Kingsley Hall (fig. 5.3) could accommodate up to fourteen people; it included
shared spaces, such as a dining room, a kitchen, a game room, and a library
that became a meditation room; there was also a meeting room that could
accommodate about a hundred people.
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