I doubt that the Wiz has any idea where his behavior modification program came from. Obviously he watched Miller Newton use the program in Kids, and ran with it once he had conned enough folks to let him loose in Calgary. The raps were taken from Synanon, but the first program that used the Host Homes to immediately enforce the disorientation and dislocation in the mind of the client was the Seed. For any of you AARColytes who would like to know where Dean-o got his powers from, this is the US Senate's view of AARC's prototype:
http://thestraights.com/images/seed-Ervin-brainwash.gif"individuals are required to participate in group therapy discussions where intensive pressure is often placed on the individuals to accept the attitudes of the group. More intensive forms of encounter groups begin first by subjecting the individual to isolation and humiliation in a conscious effort to break down his psychological defenses. Once the individual is submissive, his personality can begin to be reformed around attitudes determined by the program director to be acceptable. [It is] similar to the highly refined brainwashing techniques employed by the North Koreans in the early 1950’s"
I think that the reason Dean-o was able to hide his participation in the destruction of lives at Kids was because he still wen by Smeagol back then.
