[From Mike Acree (971217.0845)]
Mike ---
What I was pointing to in common was passing the buck for forcible
intervention in other people's lives. ......
.........how he reconciled such forcible
intervention with PCT (as elaborated, in its social implications, in
Chapter 17 of B:CP).
that the kind of forcible suicide intervention Mark
is collaborating in entails an _awesome_ responsibility--the more so
when the other person is a stranger rather than a loved one.
in regards to the points listed above -- I introduce my self to the Client and
I always ask their permission to help or at least "try" to help them. I
always start and progress in terms of cooperation -- force is only used as a
last resort, because the CT is unable or unwilling to cooperate -- also I
never tell the ct that is part of my powers of control, IF I did I could not
be sure they were cooperating because they did not want to be forced into
something.
I don't find such an attitude especially common,
and the so-called helping professions labor under a special handicap in that
regard, inasmuch as their training and socialization set them up to think of
themselves as experts who know better than other people how they should run
their lives. I'm not strictly denying that they ever do, just pointing out
that such expertise tends to make respect a
secondary issue.
I agree with this second part, and will sadly add there are a very high % of
people in the helping field, for the main reason -- to heal their selves by
"trying to Heal others" ---
I make this point to most of my clients -- with the subtle suggestion that
counselors are like Ice Cream at 31 Flavors -- you may have to sample a few
until you find one you like. Not all counselors are the same, just like not
all ice cream is the same.
Mark Lazare