n Friday, Feb. 6, Francoise Herrmann wrote:
>Hi Carol, Hi Doris, I had the opportunity to read your MCA article
>"Genre as tool in the transmission of Practice over time and
>across professional boundaries" which I really enjoyed and at the
>same time left me depressed. In line with Leigh's work on
>classificatory systems, but in terms of how these shape
>experience, and in the case study that you report people's
>indentity and lives, I have one question for you ( perhaps
>especially for Doris). How do you espcape the bind of
>intertextuality, the web of institutional pressures to
>"pathologize"? It is great to see it, to analyze it, to unveil
>the "dirty" secrets. but what are the alternatives? How do you
>escape being locked into a status quo of "pathology" and its
>reproduction? The therapist as researcher is a lousy one that only
>uses "etic" means of approaching the culture of his or her client.
>Where and how did you begin to change that?
>
>Francoise Francoise Herrmann fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org
>http://www.wenet.net/~herrmann