Losing a giant's shoulders to stand on: will we still be able to see the forest for the trees?
Losing a giant's shoulders to stand on: will we still be able to see the forest for the trees?
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失去了巨人的肩膀：我们还能只见树木、见森林吗？
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10.1007/s10935-006-0071-7
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2007
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Mays,VickieM
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Recently while sitting on a federal advisory committee charged with advising the Secretary of Health and Human Services on routinely collected health statistics, I discovered something quite surprising. The federal government does not measure on an ongoing basis our population’s level of happiness or emotional well-being. Even more surprising, the National Institute of Mental Health has a mission not to study how to keep us happy, but rather how to prevent and treat pathology. I remember that day trying to tell everyone who would listen that I thought this was absolutely crazy. That is when I realized, again, that if I was going to win this battle I needed to stand on a foundation of White male privilege that causes the masses to listen and take serious a call to action. George had many of the attributes that should have given him a tin ear. He was a White male, a past APA President, a former department chair with layers of privilege that could insulate him, if he chose, from the tsuris around him. But he was always happy to share his privilege in the name of a just public interest cause. The fact that George was the one individual who came to mind at that moment was not an accident. George was always a respected letter writer for tenure reviews of individuals whose work challenged mainstream psychology to be more responsive to racial or ethnic minorities. When we as women or racial/ethnic minorities wrote about these issues it was often seen as political and personal
