Tomi Gomory
I have worked as a social work clinician and academic in the fields of mental health and homelessness for over 30 years. In 2013 I published with two colleagues Stuart Kirk and David Cohen, "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs" a book that closely reviews psychiatry historically and critiques its efforts at addressing Madness through the Psychiatric Medical Model and offers some suggestions for moving forward without it.
I am currently involved with developing models of social service delivery using decision making under uncertainty along with examining the conventionally accepted use of coercion in social services. My most recent work finds that such coercive approaches at best are as good as voluntary services but never better with the added problem of teaching involuntary users/sufferers of social services that professionals who have power over them are to be obeyed and followed. I argue that this employment of force in the name of helping is convenient and useful for the authorities so empowered to exert social control but is antithetical to any meaningful ethical credo of the "helping" professions.
Address: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
I am currently involved with developing models of social service delivery using decision making under uncertainty along with examining the conventionally accepted use of coercion in social services. My most recent work finds that such coercive approaches at best are as good as voluntary services but never better with the added problem of teaching involuntary users/sufferers of social services that professionals who have power over them are to be obeyed and followed. I argue that this employment of force in the name of helping is convenient and useful for the authorities so empowered to exert social control but is antithetical to any meaningful ethical credo of the "helping" professions.
Address: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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