Welcome to the 'Your Choice' - 'Visitweb' Sites You may have arrived on a link page for some of our theoretical material. You are welcome here. The above links are samples of some academic material available. The site concerned with advancing public and theoretical understanding of social problems that affect peoples lives. There is also this Magazine site, our Anti-Abuse and our Academic sites. We address the difficulties that people experience in trying to get a support service from Professionals and the difficulties that Professionals have in providing a viable service. This mainly affects critical service like Mental Health, Child Abuse, Adult and Relationship Abuse, Child Protection, Disability Services & Access, Adult Social Care and Human Rights. Our Main Web Site is our Community Website: www.visitweb.org . There are menus to various sections that are being developed all the time. These deal with challenging social and professional issues. There is also 'Your Choice' Magazine and 'Your Choice' Forums. The site takes an experienced 'Radical Perspective' and is dedicated to establishing viable Social Theory. We are also attempting to develop an International Presence reflecting the 'personal' experiences of Individual and Institutional Abuses & Prejudices Your Choice Community:
United Stand Against All Human Abuses, Social Disablement, Institutionalisation & Ignorance. Our Mission:
Our mission is to advance mutual understanding of the above related issues and open up minds to new perspectives on old problems. Some of the material can be hard to follow, but we make no apologies. There are real problems which require us to step outside our daily conventions. The process of 'changing attitudes' and stepping outside our usual stereotypical, cultural prejudices and established institutional practices is very difficult. I have found that the use of conventional language, to reflect upon relatively 'unusual' experiences, is problematic. The use of 'ordinary language' to try and discuss the individual's very personal experiences (even as therapists and counsellors), assumes that 'our' normal perspective is the correct one to take when considering a person's problems. Sometimes the 'client / patients' perspective is the most credible, but we are unable to conceptualise the problem in their terms (because we have not been there). Trying to communicate these 'alternative perspectives' is a real problem and often distressing for the client. The listener will often 'hear' from their own, comfortable, easily accommodated, everyday perspective, or some established 'theoretical perspective'. One choice is for the client to 'accept' these conventional perspectives and understandings. A serious alternative and one that is always assumed to be inferior (or a manifestation of distorted thinking) is that of the distress client, or patient. Sometimes this is true, it may even be true to some degree, most of the time, but within that clutter of misunderstanding are some important truths. In what we understand to be psychotic, or delusional thinking, or Autistic, ADHD and Dyslexic forms of thinking and communication; I have found Radical Perspectives which can be of significant value to the rest of us, in understanding wider social and technical problems. This misunderstanding is not unusual. There are famous cases of cultural, philosophical, scientific and technical misunderstanding, involving 'ways of thinking and belief'. These individual ways of thinking have later come to be understood to have highly beneficial, once understood. We assume these are particularly 'unique', but this is only because we often suppress and ridicule those who think so far beyond our own understanding that we fail to appreciate the content of their communications. We include them in the category "they don't make any sense".
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