And spawn Anon and on:Casriel (- Psychiatric consultant to the Synanon Foundation, August 1962 to June 1964) also created the humbly named:
The Casriel Institute : the treatment and training facility for the new identity group process and theory.
Germany has made a home for the concept
http://www.dan-casriel-institut.de/Casriel on his AREBA project: [Exhibit Xo. 14 (d)]
AREBA, Inc., A Humanizing Process for the Family of Man
Introducing AREBA, A New Concept in Rehabilitating Drug Addicts
AND Other Emotionally Disturbed People
A new psychotherapeutic treatment program for middle-class and upper- class adolescents and adults — designed for severely character disordered personalities who do not need a sustained 3-year program to get well
In 9 months — the time it takes to conceive and give birth to a baby — AREBA can reprogram a person toward in-the-world behavioral and emotional health.
At highly successful Daytop Village,3 years used to be required to rehabilitate an addict, but today, new techniques have reduced the time to a year and a half.{
Unless you’ve got good insurance coverage for your problem child, then hell we’ll just keep them indefinitely, raise them for you? }
Now, Psychiatrist Dan Casriel and Ron Brancato, former director of program at Daytop, have utilized their experience to establish a new kind of program for middle-class emotionally disturbed people.
Frankly, AREBA is a hard-nosed program that isn't easy.At least, at the beginning. When people have been in AREBA a few weeks, they usually start to like it ? and to develop an esprit de corps about AREBA.
The program starts by telling newcomers to stop acting out their symptoms. Immediately. Then, it goes to work on the distorted feelings and defeatist attitudes which have caused the symptoms to exist in the first place.
AREBA makes people face the truth about themselves, find out who they are, and grapple with how they feel inside. At the same time, it trains people to function in the world in which they must live.
The AREBA program is designed to treat people whose emotional problems prevent them from functioning effectively and responsibly within the boundaries of normal society. There are no rigid age restrictions. AHERA is structured for focus on the problems of both adolescents and adults. AKEBA is based on the principle that psychiatric treatment alone is not enough to rehabilitate an infantile neurotic or character-disordered personality — who, invariably, does not know how to function. The program is designed to help an individual in two ways: (1) to provide psychotherapeutic treatment to help him express and under-
stand distorted feelings and self-defeating attitudes ; and ( 2 ) to provide step- by-step guidance about how to function more effectively in the world.
The program has been founded and structured by Psychiatrist Daniel Casriel and Ron Brancato, former director of program of Daytop Village. It is realistic, tough minded, and extraordinarily effective. Study the schedule following and see for yourself why AREBA is different from other approaches you may have read about.
I did and it's not. (Except that it’s an accelerated version)The AREBA program lasts 9 months, and consists of three distinctly different
phases of personal growth.
Phase I — First four months, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
At the start, a young person is immersed in a 24-hour-a-day structured discipline. For example, he arises at 7:30 a.m., immediately begins to clean his room and eats breakfast. Then, his day continues with meetings, seminars, group therapy sessions (held every day), and specific work responsibilities. Every
hour of the individual's time is programmed. He interacts with others during free time, and is accountable for everything he says and does. Special "probes" (lasting 8 to 12 hours) explore self-defeating attitude patterns. "Marathons" (30-hour extended group-therapy sessions) are aimed at breaking down emotional defenses, and getting members of AREBA in contact with gut-level feelings.
Phase II — Fifth month through seventh month
In the next phase of treatment, a young person starts to attend school a?ain.
Or, if he is through with school, he goes to work outside of the AREBA community. He is encouraged to apply what he has been learning in phase I training. Hut he continues to live in the AREBA community, and continues to be involved in Dr. Casriel's new identity groups, probes, marathons, etc. In therapeutic sessions, the emphasis is on helping the individual express his fears and anxieties, and helping him learn how to function more effectively in the expanded world to which he is now relating.
Phase III — Eighth and ninth months
In the final phase of treatment, an individual both works and lives outside of
the AREBA community. His involvement with AREBA is to attend encounter and
new identity groups three times a week. During these groups, he works on feelings and attitudes which may be preventing him from adjusting healthily to the non-therapeutic "outside world." He also spends time serving as a role model for people entering AREBA for the first time.
Parents get training, too
Throughout the 9-month period, special groups and special counseling are provided for parents of young people who are in the AREBA program. With parents, the emphasis is on establishing a permanently better relationship Between themselves and their offspring.
