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Joyce Harris:
If a professional group therapy session is in progress: what would ever be the point of a THERAPIST wanting the GROUP to go at one person in the group for an extended period of time until that one person "is broken down?"

What would be the point?
This seems absolutely cruel, and seems to serve no purpose.

BuzzKill:
You can brainwash someone without causing a emotional meltdown first.
This *might* explain it.

Anonymous:
Buzzkill: do you mean you must first break them down in order to "brain wash" them?  Is that the point, to break them down first?

So this is not even remotely to be considered "therapy" then?

Antigen:

--- Quote ---On 2005-03-16 09:21:00, Anonymous wrote:


So this is not even remotely to be considered "therapy" then?"

--- End quote ---


Depends on who you ask. The Therapeutic Community treatment model is built on the ideas of Chuck Dederich's Synanon ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... ch+synanon )

There might even be some sound, basis for the idea of benign therapy through a good, wholesome and well functioning community. But only if the person's involvement is VOLUNTARY! If their involvement is involuntary, as evidently most of these kids involvement initially is, then their resistance must first be broken down.


Come the millennium,

month 12,

in the home of greatest power,

the village idiot will come forth to
be acclaimed the leader.
--Nostradamus
--- End quote ---

Anonymous:
But isn't the RESULTS the big question to consider?
Parents did not send their child to Whitmore to be brainwashed into.....what?
Parents' expectation was therapy to help the child deal with a specific issue the child had-- whatever it may be: I am sure each parent explained the specific problem thier child was having.
No parent sent a kid there to be "broken down and brainwashed" into something the parent doesn't even know about or comprehend.

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