Hi, Jim:
I’ve come to regard Robert Whitaker as a redeemer/deliverer to us. Would I be correct in saying that prior to Whitaker’s arrival, no one who was a supporter of the medical model had any idea what they were doing, they were simply wandering aimlessly? When Bob Whitaker arrived with his revelations about the role the drug companies were playing in the downfall of patients, wasn’t he lending coherence to a hitherto obtuse predicament? I was thrilled when it began to look to me as though that was his purpose.
I immediately began to get excited when Whitaker started talking about a class action lawsuit against the drug companies and the APA. I am now grieving over the fact that, as yet, there doesn’t seem to be any sign of such a thing when I had presumed there would be. The purpose of this letter is to find out if you know of such a development? Kermit Cole at MIA, has told me he doesn’t.
Taking Whitaker’s postulations as a starting point, there ensue nuanced ramifications which must be articulated in order for anyone to grasp the totality of the mess mental patients are ensnared in. When I’m bawling over the lack of appearance of a lawsuit, I try to console myself with the thought that, perhaps, investigators are immersed in the discovery of these nuances and ramifications. Such a thing would be necessary in the development of any proposals which would have any chance of succeeding in court. In other words, the entire god-damned scandal’s got to be exposed! Only then will patients get their long sought-after Epiphany!
My worst fear is that legal advocates everywhere are so preoccupied with other things that Whitaker’s discoveries don’t even constitute a blip on the radar screen to them. Do you have any good news for me that this isn’t happening?
I actually didn’t mean for this letter to be as rhetorical as it’s turned out to be. By the way, I’m in Baltimore.
