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David Deitch

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From Heretik’s contribution  in The Seed forum which happened to include quotes including but not limited to Daytop and Phoenix House David Deitch opportunistically casting aspersions on Straight --thereby seizing an opportunity to imply that their tactics are legitimate and Kid cruelty free and that the absence of physical restraint/violence in their respective programs means an absence of indemnic abuse.

--- Quote ---The LA Times noted in 1990 that Phoenix House and Daytop use peer pressure and confrontation like Straight but for shorter periods, with smaller groups, and that they also provide formal education.
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That rag sure needs to retract that flat out BS! Over two years for me and many many others and the girl who had the bunk above mine at Millbrook spent about five years in that so called short term exposure!
Formal education? Only one of the four locations I went through was even accredited and the others had packets instead of text books and passed off grounds keeping duties as horticulture class.


--- Quote ---Former Synanite Dr. David Deitch, then a Phoenix House director, has stated, "A client must have the choice of leaving treatment, even if the youngster is on probation and the alternative is jail."(19)
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Excerpt from Ursus' post on the same thread

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---Riiiiiight. Someone oughta inform all those kids in Daytop (David Deitch) that there simply has been some kind of misunderstanding re. the concept of "choice." Along with similar misunderstanding re. the attack therapy ... which must be called "something else" now for perception management purposes. It's nothing short of surreal to read Deitch spouting this stuff in print.
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Freedom of choice from the guy whose made a career of promoting (even w/ legislation) and profits from remand situations. ..yeah. Tell it to the TYC kids who had threats of their PO being called hanging over them for even the most petty infractions or objections.Tell it to the kids whose parents were told to bar them from returning home and to report their splitee kids as runaways (some need no such motivation, but that’ll keep for an abusive treatment setting as an abdication of parenting/ perpetuation of parental abuse rant some other time). Tell it to the kids shipped time zones away from home to a place where residents and counselors are keenly aware of the “inventory”  of those who object to a given aspect of Daytopian life…some (those who are closer to aging out or have much to fear where they’ve come from ) are told they’re free to leave any time whilst others are put on a van to the city to see the doc’ and then put on "one to ones".And for that matter confrontational attacks were at the time of that quote and are to date still integral and central to the milieu.

David Deitch’s self promotion in speaking out against Straight (which was already circling the drain at that time) is not dissimilar to Hazelden renouncing the use of verbal abuses/confrontational attack therapy at places like Daytop and Phoenix House in the mid eighties. Interestingly both Daytop and Phoenix House inherited a number of Straightlings in the early-mid nineties. Lol it is fuckin’ surreal.

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