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GregFL:
That history is lacking in foundation...


here you go from daytops own website..

On July 30, 1957, Father William B. O'Brien, a young parish priest from Tuckahoe, NY on duty at St. Patrick's Cathedral, was fatefully ....

...In the 1950's, the public attitude was "once an addict, always an addict." Neither jail nor hospital stays seemed to make a bit of difference to an addicted person. Father O'Brien started researching other means of treating addiction. One of the places he looked at was Synanon. In 1958, Charles Dederich, himself a recovering alcoholic, started Synanon as a community of recovering people. This system was based on group encounters and addicts confronting each other, demanding self-revelation and responsibility.

Concurrent with Father O'Brien's search, a group of learned men from the Brooklyn Court system was on a similar quest. Dr. Alexander Bassin...


http://www.daytopvillagealumni.org/history.html

dragonfly:

Inculcated:
Well FWEIW here is some old footage of a police training video that involves Bassin and Casriel and a Dupont. {Not sure which.}

--- Quote ---We’d like to go a step further we’d like for you to experience what it means to be screaming at someone else whom you outwardly hate and detest and want to feel very badly.
Now you may have wondered how we were able to get these students within ten to fifteen minutes to scream and behave in that fashion.  It’s quite a trick and the man that’s going to do the explanation is (John)? DuPont who is an expert in that area.
…usually this process is helped along if someone wears a mask…to psyche you up so to speak”
--- End quote ---
They then take a break to impart to the student participants "the Albert Ellis procedure of tolerating verbal abuse" while maintaining control via the “sticks and stones” philosophy”

...BTW My transcription sucks ‘cause I’m not a stenographer

I'll kick your arse:
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