Tomi Gomory | Florida State University (original) (raw)
I have worked as a social work clinician and academic in the fields of mental health and homelessness for over 30 years. In 2013 I published with two colleagues Stuart Kirk and David Cohen, "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs" a book that closely reviews psychiatry historically and critiques its efforts at addressing Madness through the Psychiatric Medical Model and offers some suggestions for moving forward without it.
I am currently involved with developing models of social service delivery using decision making under uncertainty along with examining the conventionally accepted use of coercion in social services. My most recent work finds that such coercive approaches at best are as good as voluntary services but never better with the added problem of teaching involuntary users/sufferers of social services that professionals who have power over them are to be obeyed and followed. I argue that this employment of force in the name of helping is convenient and useful for the authorities so empowered to exert social control but is antithetical to any meaningful ethical credo of the "helping" professions.
Address: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 1998
PubMed, 2002
This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and historically ba... more This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and historically based on the uncritical, but societally well-accepted view, that medically justified coercion (punishment or unwanted treatment) is therapeutic. It documents this claim by reviewing the early professional history and the resultant publications of the inventors of ACT (originally known as Training in Community Living), consisting of psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists who trained and worked during the 1960s through the 1980s, at Mendota State Hospital (eventually renamed Mendota Mental Health Institute) in Wisconsin.
Psychiatric Services, 2002
Journal of Social Work Education, 2001
Journal of Social Work Education, 2001
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, Mar 7, 2014
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Psychiatric Services, Oct 1, 2001
Journal of Social Work Education, Oct 1, 2002
Point/Counterpoint between Bruce Thyer and myself on the role of theory in the research of social... more Point/Counterpoint between Bruce Thyer and myself on the role of theory in the research of social work practice is welcomed. She makes many constructive comments, most of which either expand on individual points of agree ment between Thyer and myself or selectively support some elements of our differing posi tions, and makes some arguments for the legitimacy of "intuitive reasoning" in social work practice. Finally and most importantly, she uses the oft-preferred approach of social work, consensus seeking, in an attempt to reconcile two alternate approaches, in this instance two irreconcilable logical proce dures, induction and deduction. I will concentrate on her discussion of
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
International Journal of Play Therapy, 2002
Routledge eBooks, Jul 5, 2017
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 1998
PubMed, 2002
This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and historically ba... more This article argues that Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is fundamentally and historically based on the uncritical, but societally well-accepted view, that medically justified coercion (punishment or unwanted treatment) is therapeutic. It documents this claim by reviewing the early professional history and the resultant publications of the inventors of ACT (originally known as Training in Community Living), consisting of psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists who trained and worked during the 1960s through the 1980s, at Mendota State Hospital (eventually renamed Mendota Mental Health Institute) in Wisconsin.
Psychiatric Services, 2002
Journal of Social Work Education, 2001
Journal of Social Work Education, 2001
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, Mar 7, 2014
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Psychiatric Services, Oct 1, 2001
Journal of Social Work Education, Oct 1, 2002
Point/Counterpoint between Bruce Thyer and myself on the role of theory in the research of social... more Point/Counterpoint between Bruce Thyer and myself on the role of theory in the research of social work practice is welcomed. She makes many constructive comments, most of which either expand on individual points of agree ment between Thyer and myself or selectively support some elements of our differing posi tions, and makes some arguments for the legitimacy of "intuitive reasoning" in social work practice. Finally and most importantly, she uses the oft-preferred approach of social work, consensus seeking, in an attempt to reconcile two alternate approaches, in this instance two irreconcilable logical proce dures, induction and deduction. I will concentrate on her discussion of
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
International Journal of Play Therapy, 2002
Routledge eBooks, Jul 5, 2017