Raising the alarm on authoritarian rule c/o Life&Arts FT

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I can think for myself!  Yes.   But, are you allowed to think?	EVERYBODY         TO KENMURE STREET^
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1	Mr Nobody against Putin

^It's a bit more 'local' - I think!

 

My source: Nicolas Rapold, Raising the alarm on authoritarian rule. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 28-29 March 2026, p.12.

Previously: 'power' : 'politics' : 'authoritarian'

Hybrid: Seminar & Tetralogic Model

Free Hybrid Seminar Oct 2nd - Personal Welfare Decisions:
Year in Review & Future Developments

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my corner 'I' The person - self The person's - mental state, mental capacity orientation (time, place, person) continuity -  mental illness identity (advanced?) choice ... my decisions? PSYCHO-	physical environment place, time embodiment - sense of self deprivation of liberty anticipated future developments probability silk my body?!
next of kin family friends carers Social Housing Community Care Residential care sector personal welfare decisions	-POLITICAL UK - EU Politics European Convention on Human Rights Law - Case Law Solicitors Barristers Silk Judge Court of Protection Decisions of the Court Mental Capacity Mental Health Law 🌍

My source: https://x.com/hfp91/status/1837526633235833079

Interview study: Exploring psychological safety in inpatient mental health settings

Are you a healthcare professional, with experience of working on adult #inpatient #psychiatricwards in the UK? We’re interested in hearing about your experience of providing psychologically safe care. See details below! @LeedsMedHealth @UoL_MHN @yqsrdotorg @YHPSRC

— Beth Griffin 🌸 (@BethLGriffin) September 9, 2024  

[And my source: plus c/o @LainidiO]

 

"David Lynch: A Thinking Room"

Where is the Thinking Room?

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Ah! Surely this one? It's deep!	Is it here? This is deep too! Please take a chair.
I trust you are comfortable, so what about this place?	Yes, you can think here - but you must check first before you do: Think.  If you must ... N.B. Please rate your experience too.

Soraya Roberts. A Room Of His Own, FT Magazine, 30-31 March, 2024, 1067: pp.38-41.

https://www.ft.com/content/bf6a6eaa-30d1-4704-9aea-4ff2d117f407

David Lynch’s dreamlike rooms at the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024:
https://www.salonemilano.it/en/articles/david-lynchs-dreamlike-rooms-salone-del-mobilemilano-2024

Book - Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like

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psychology Subjective experience: of freedom and being equal self-interest "Rawls transformed political philosophy, Chandler says. But his thought can be used to transform and reimagine 'progressive politics for the twenty-first century', too. After a half-decade of populist insurgency, the democratic world is at a 'crossroads', he contends, and we are in desperate need of new ideas to renovate a tattered social contract. That's where Rawls comes in." Derbyshire, p.9.

"Imagine being asked to cut a cake into five slices without knowing which slice you'll end up with. Rational self-interest dictates you'd cut slices of roughly equal size. Similarly, the participants in Rawl's thought experiment, behind the veil of ignorance, choose two fundamental principles of justice: a 'basic liberties principle', which says that every one has an equal claim to a suite of fundamental rights and liberties, obviously a precondition of liberal democracy; and a 'difference principle', according to which social and economic inequalities can only be justified to the extent that they benefit the worst off." p.9 trickle-down   ||  'drip'

Society Social Justice Fairness Social contract

economics    ||  'pricing'  Free and Equal

Derbyshire, J. (2023) Justice, fairness and why Rawls still matters today. FT Weekend, Life&Arts, Books, 22-23 April. p.9.

Chandler, D. (2023) Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? London: Penguin.

Perspectives on Paternalism and Public Health - Report

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public MENTAL health 'individual wellbeing'	PUBLIC HEALTH 'individual wellbeing'
PUBLIC HEALTH 'benefitting a group’ 'Is there such a thing as group wellbeing?' 'sub-population' 'population' [ 'Benefits realisation' in technology, and policy. Social responsibility. ]	Perspectives on Paternalism and Public Health

"The difficulties with assessing public health policies in terms of the standard model of paternalism are often under-recognised and under-explored. Given the lack of attention paid to these issues, perhaps we should not be overly pessimistic that progress is possible. When it comes to public health policy and practice, we should avoid trying to take a pre-made theory and simply applying it. Instead, we should carefully reflect on the case of public health to help us improve our theorising about the nature and ethical significance of paternalism in general." p.11.

Perspectives on Paternalism and Public Health - Report, Compiled by Jonathan Parry, Farhang Tahzib and Jessica Begon. UK Faculty of Public Health. November 2022. ISBN: 978-1-900273-89-3

My source:
https://twitter.com/LSEPhilosophy/status/1600505409575403520?s=20&t=JEL9DUvUTntSTyGtViZDtQ

A Panopoly of Panopticons

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Cognitive (Care) Panopticon: You're looking at the whole thing now 'a' mind ...

PANOPTICON: Architectural design Lines of in-sight Digital Currency Electronic Payments [DCEP]

The primary Panopticon: The community ...

"Jeremy Bentham, an 18th century philosopher and social theorist, envisaged a building designed to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard. It was called a Panopticon; and in today's world the equivalent will be digital - the emergent property of a swathe of various technologies welded together by a regime intent on total control of billions of minds."  Panopticoin  [DCEP]

My source:

"China's new 'panopticoin', What Investment, Dec. 2019. p.50.

Two papers and a Conference

However much I try to multitask the result is illusory. Writing projects are many and the status of most is stalled*. Even those 'active' such as the SDG paper that combines Hodges' model, public health, specifically nutrition is on a sister journal and still awaiting word from the reviewers and editorial team. Where the paper remains active for me is that since last summer I've had the assistance of a co-author. This really does make a difference.

 Another paper I've posted about is the two-part draft [4400 Words / 46 Refs :: 4700 Words / 37 Refs] on:

• Threshold Concepts
• Hodges' model 
• Liberty Protection Safeguarding (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding - DoLS)
• Residential Care and Nursing Homes
  

Before the renewed focus on the SDG effort, the TC paper benefited from feedback (which will be acknowledged). Putting it down (yet again), it seemed a much more complete draft. Now, as the themes suggest, post-Covid, another revision-pass is merited. In compensation, as I find with Hodges' model and  each new year, the two-part paper's focus is even more relevant.

Next week I will once again share Hodges' model with a community of practice. Postponed from July 2020:

TC2020: 8TH BIENNIAL THRESHOLD CONCEPTS CONFERENCE, 2021

I wish I had data to back up and support the paper. I have routinely used Hodges' model implicitly in this care context as a community mental health nurse. Once again the work is descriptive. Before COVID struck, I was planning to address this and will as soon as possible. Now, I've sixteen slides to complete.

*Don't mention the website!

Lockdown ii :: Writing, Reading, Drupal...

As we start Lockdown 2 in the UK - England, plus the long nights to follow it's an opportunity to weigh up plans, projects and progress here.

I've nearly finished my review and posts on "The Power of the 2x2 Matrix":

Q. What is Hodges' model? A. It is NOT a 2x2 matrix

Book review: "The Power of the 2 x 2 Matrix" i

Next up - to read and review-  are two books:

Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals, Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur and Izumi Ohno, Brookings Institution Press.

Leave No One Behind

Last weekend on behalf of my co-author I (re-)submitted a paper on public health, Hodges' model and the sustainable development goals SDGs.

It does pain me that the publisher kindly sent a review copy in the spring, but sadly it's not in the reference list. That subtitle is tantalizing. I will get to this after picking up "After Ethnos":

 

After Ethnos

To be clear, I'm a nurse not* an ethnographer or anthropologist, but this research approach featured large in studies at Lancaster University 2014-2016. 

 

 

A further rationale for reading this book is to maintain insight into research methods and methodologies.

 

Returning to the writing front, just before I found a co-author for the SDG draft, I'd worked on the two-part Threshold Concepts draft dealing with Deprivation of Liberty (now, Liberty Protection Safeguarding) c/o feedback from Mark Bird.

 

This is next up, especially hoping that the Threshold Concepts can proceed next July at UCL, London.

 

The other paper is a 'legacy' item which started in 2013 (yes, I know!). Mentioned here on W2tQ no doubt on diagrams, case formulations and h2cm. There is a paper here, he says? It is quite advanced in terms of words and references.

 

In addition to the legacy issues:

• person-centred care;
• integrated care;
• holistic care;

the standout personal legacy - is this blog and the lack of a website. Soon I'll put twitter down and blog less to try (again) to focus on Drupal and related tools.

 

*I would like to think that successful nursing interventions (that really 'make a difference') calls for an  ethnographic and anthropological orientation.

Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power

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	The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

My source: The Times, January 19th, 2019.

Cover image: http://www.shoshanazuboff.com/

I-dentity: How the Individual-Group runs...

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questions of identity →
	← politics of identity

My source:
Grayling, A.C. (2009) Liberty In The Age Of Terror - A Defense Of Civil Liberties And Enlightenment Values. London: Bloomsbury. p.35.

"As a contribution to understanding why liberty matters, one has to understand why questions of identity, and the politics of identity, constitute a threat to liberty."

1938 and counting... A Public (Mental) Health Odyssey? c/o Virginia Woolf

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"A deep concern with subjugated knowledges and with the arts of human communication expressed 50 years ago by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas. Virginia Woolf, too, was concerned about how education contributed to ...

... the barbarity of mechanised warfare.

Since 'the old education of the old colleges breeds neither a particular respect for liberty nor a particular hatred of war', she wrote, 'it is clear that you must build your colleges differently   (Woolf, 1977, p.39). Asking 'what should be taught in the new college, the poor college?', she replied thus:

Not the arts of dominating other people; not the arts of ruling, of killing, of acquiring land and capital. . . The poor college must teach only the arts can be taught cheaply and practised by poor people; such as medicine, mathematics, music, painting and literature. ... The aim of the new college, the cheap college, should be not to segregate and specialise, but to combine. It should explore the ways in which mind and body can be made to co-operate; discover what new combinations make good wholes in human life. (Ibid. pp.39-40)"

Virginia Woolf (1977). [1938] Three Guineas. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Robins, K. and Webster, F. (1989). The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 275.

a reflection on relaxation or ...?

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group - population

Quotation Search:
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?homesearch=lying+down&startsearch=Search

Reading and writing the minutia of locked doors and windows (still a draught)

Couples, married or not, partners are the cards that frequently, if not by definition, lean on each other beyond the pale, to the n-th degree. Witness so many lessons of what love really is.

They bend and flex. Tested by history, timelines entwined, ties-that-bind, trying to persist in the hear and how.

Their psychological union is challenged as memories become eroded and physically frailty takes hold. Usually; mostly, on the one.

Eventually things, established relationships break and one or the other - should we say: finds themselves in - residential care.

Courtship enables us to become socialised to and with each other and respective families and in some instances other cultures and beliefs.

In this crucial transition sometimes there is learning through experience as respite care is sought.

In other cases health services wonder how this relationship has survived for so long. A crisis is a precipice for change. A chaotic invitation. Radical.

A sudden shift from what was home to a new world of corridors, r, ro, roo, room, rooms; my room? New noises and smells and altered routines and jumbled faces, touches, days and nights

The dolls of childhood are left behind, but may be picked up again literally as an emotional comforter. If not this then perhaps a ‘paper clad dol’ that is bound to be - ‘deprivation of liberty’.

In this new home, this person walks the corridor and inspects the minutia of the doors and windows. Staff pass by(e) waving by their walk - "so-busy-look-no-hands" while trying to be butterflies.

Butterflies that cannot say which way is ‘out’.

They are they. Difficult to follow with eye, head and a hand to catch. The individual recognises the whole of the comings and goings, the main thoroughfare. The strategic point, the nexus of comings and goings.

Something's not right though! I need to be somewhere else.

Sadly (or Usually), there is no going back.

Is there a pattern to this confused-coming-to-terms-with?

From asking repeatedly about being elsewhere, especially with the setting of the sun is there a shift in attempted reasoning? So correct, so responsible all those decades ago. Perhaps even months ago...

If no one will listen to me then perhaps if I have my wife/husband with me then they will see the importance of my cause, my mission.

See look - I have my wife, husband, partner with me now: we really need to go!

Can the residential care home support this person? Can they meet their care needs? They say they are ‘struggling’. Will they need to move – again?

How do they work through this transition? What do we know of how individuals negotiate this transition in their lives? How can we try to understand?

How do they make sense of what has happened, and where they now find themselves? Will their level of distress, agitation gradually extinguish as with their efforts to leave?

As they look to the windows, seek to traverse the doorway, cross the foreign threshold and venture to that somewhere that is not here, we know one thing.

Person centredness lies in the minutia of the life once lived through those locked doors and windows.

We can ‘open’ the doors and windows by travelling with them, together, sharing that journey, the sense of those times and upon returning help them adjust to this new listen and how. Clearly, deprivation of liberty is not a punishment here, yet it demands compensation by provision of high quality personalised care.

Data sharing, privacy, health, citizenry.... "Database State"

In February (2009) I ventured that the degree of sensitivity that members of the public ascribe to their personal data is undergoing quite a change. This change is not without its own chaotic dynamic since the change is one of general laissez faire, until an individual finds themselves 'wronged'. Then watch the litigation flow. That initial laissez faire attitude may please some in government as it makes it easier to introduce yet more data farming, gathering, and harvesting legislation and join up what are usually (or should be) disparate data repositories.

I don't read the gutter press and 'lighter' forms of reading, but the exposé in such publications that include - as per the market 'requirement' - very personal data, information and knowledge must have an influence on how the populous view their own data? For health and social care professionals of course they had better continue to hold 'personal data' in the 'highest of esteem', especially in these digitally conjoined times.

Last month The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust published a report "Database State" calling in question the legality of several public sector databases. The response to these findings is awaited. ...

Meanwhile the website Statebook seeks to parody and yet make a point about the changing data times we live in. Whilst in response to such a critique there are calls for independent oversight, the difficulty lies in ensuring such bodies are not dentally challenged....

Additional links:

http://www.jrrt.org.uk/

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/the-database-state-were-in

Open Rights Group

Hodges' model: Political domain links