The problem here is that of accessibility. The Standard Procedure Chart has right under its heading “(For Accessible Cases).” I have talked earlier about accessibility1, and the least accessible character of them all is the psychotic. That’s what it means. He is inaccessible. If we modified our terminology to make it a little more workable, […]
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Lecture: Handling Psychotics (1)
This gives you a sample of some of the bizarre methods that can be adopted to regain accessibility. Another one is followed by Dr. Frieda Fromm Reichman. She will go into a cell with the toughest, meanest, orneriest psychotics imaginable, and by a process of acting crazier than they act bring them out of it. […]
Lecture: Standard Procedure and Accessibility
The problem of accessibility lies in your hands, with your skill and persuasiveness in getting somebody to either look at you, sit down, answer a few questions, or at the optimum close his eyes and go straight into work. Don’t try to force a patient into therapy. In the first place, the patient may […]