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Awake:
This is an interesting history that I believe will show, in part, what was influential to Mel’s creation of Cedu, particularly the tools. As well it serves as proof that the ideas derived were applied in the Cedu program in such a way that was intended to cause mental illness.

Carl Gustav Jung :  26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in countercultural movements across the globe.

Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous
information provided by Roger Heydt

Jung is credited with having set the course for what today is known as Alcoholics Anonymous.
It was Bill Wilson who told a story of one of Jung's patients, "Roland," who was helped by Jung.
When Roland reportedly asked Jung if there was any sure way for an alcoholic to recover -- truly recover, Jung is quoted as saying, "Yes, there is. Exceptions to cases such as yours have been occurring since early times. Here and there, once in a while, alcoholics have had what are called vital spiritual experiences. To me these are phenomena. They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements. Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.   Wilson later had one of these "conversions"
http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?opt ... &Itemid=40

, it was a conversation with Carl Jung that led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, and likewise all related 12 Step Programs. Jung advised a chronic alcoholic known only as "Roland H.": "I can only recommend that place yourself in the religious atmosphere of your own choice, that you recognize your own hopelessness, and that you cast yourself upon whatever God you think there is. The lightning of the transforming experience may then strike you." This advice worked where no psychological, religious, or medical therapy had previously succeeded and the prescription was shared with Bill W., the now famous founder of A.A.  -http://www.nndb.com/people/910/000031817/

The four Ego Functions
Jung's Psychological theory of Types
The Four Ego Faculties
According to Jung, the Ego - the "I" or self-conscious faculty - has four inseperable functions, four different fundamental ways of perceiving and interpreting reality, and two ways of responding to it. Jung divided people into Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, and Intuition types, arranging these four in a compass.
The four ways of interpreting reality are the four ego-functions - Thinking, Feeling, Sensation and Intuition.  These consist of two  diametrically-opposed pairs.  Thinking is the opposite of Feeling, and Sensation the opposite of Intuition.  So, suggests Jung, if a person has the Thinking function (an analytical, "head"-type  way of looking at the world) highly developed, the  Feeling function (the empathetic, value-based  "heart"-type way of looking at things) will be correspondingly underveloped, and in fact suppressed.  The same goes for Sensation and Intuition.  Sensation is orientation "outward" to physical reality, and Intuition "inward" to psychic reality.http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/typology.html
The Principle of Opposites

To Jung, life consists of "a complex of inexorable opposites": introversion (inner-directedness) and extraversion
(outer-directedness), consciousness and unconsciousness, thinking and feeling, love and hate,
and so forth. The principle of opposites imply that no personality is ever truly one sided.

The Principle of Opposites: Psychic energy is created by the tension between such opposites as
introversion-extraversion, thinking-feeling, sensation-intuition, good-evil, consciousnessunconsciousness,
love-hate, and many others. When one extreme is primarily conscious, the
unconscious compensates by emphasizing the opposite tendency. Successful adjustment
requires uniting the various opposing forces through some middle ground.

The Shadow. The shadow is the primitive and unwelcome side of personality that
derives from our animal forebears. (See Jung, 1951.) It consists of material that is repressed
into the personal unconscious because it is shameful and unpleasant, and it plays a compensatory
role to the more positive persona and ego.
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 Jung on schizophrenia and neurosis
intrapsychic ataxia (a disconnection between emotional and intellectual spheres), and Otto
Gross’s (1877–1920) dementia sejunctiva, relied heavily on a ‘splitting’ metaphor (Berrios,
Luque and Villagr´an, 2003), and Carl Jung, working closely with Bleuler, explicitly linked
dissociation (and hysteria) with dementia praecox in his 1907 book, The Psychology of Dementia
Praecox (Jung, 1907/1960). This in turn, infused with Janetian concepts (despite
Jung’s insistence on Freud’s influence), was a major influence for Bleuler, whose concept
of schizophrenia, with its core deficit the ‘splitting’ of psychological functions, provides the
most clear fusion of dissociation and psychotic concepts to date (see Moskowitz, Chapter
3, this volume).
It will thus be seen that secondary personalities are formed by the disintegration
of the original normal personality. Degeneration implies
destruction of normal psychical processes, and may be equivalent to insanity;
whereas the disintegration resulting in multiple personality is only a functional
dissociation of that complex organization which constitutes a normal self. The
elementary psychical processes, in themselves normal, are capable of being reassociated
into a normal whole.
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/exc ... 511737.pdf

Jung developed the concept of a feeling-toned or emotionally-charged complex.  This important concept, adapted from Ziehen, is discussed in detail below, as it was to become central to Bleuler’s developing concept of schizophrenia

The term ‘schizophrenia’ and its relation to the term ‘dissociation’  
Bleuler introduces the term ‘schizophrenia’ – literally, ‘split mind’ – in his 1911 book in an early section entitled, ‘The name of the disease’, in the following passage:  ‘I call dementia praecox “schizophrenia” because (as I hope to demonstrate) the “splitting” of the different psychic functions is one of its most important characteristics’ (Bleuler, 1950/1911, p. 8).  In the next section, entitled, ‘The definition of the disease’, Bleuler continues,  
In every case, we are confronted with a more or less clear-cut splitting of the psychic functions.  If the disease is marked, the personality loses its unity; at different times different psychic complexes seem to represent the personality… one set of complexes dominates the personality for a time, while other groups of ideas or drives are ‘split off’ and seem either partly or completely impotent.

What then, scientifically speaking, is a ‘feeling-toned complex’?  It is the image of a certain psychic situation which is strongly accentuated emotionally… This image has a powerful inner coherence, it has its own wholeness, and in addition, a relatively high degree of autonomy… and therefore behaves like an animated foreign body in the sphere of consciousness (Jung, 1960/1934, p. 96).

Importantly, Jung then argues that his research on complexes ‘corroborates’ Janet’s teachings on the ‘extreme dissociability of consciousness’ (italics in original), and of the possibility of a personality disintegrating into fragments (pp. 96-97):
…for fundamentally, there is no difference in principle between a fragmentary personality and a complex.... Today, we can take it as moderately certain that complexes are in fact ‘splinter psyches’.  The aetiology of their origin is frequently a so-called trauma, an emotional shock or some such thing, that splits off a bit of the psyche (Jung, 1960/1934, pp. 97-98).

Causes of Neurosis. The collective unconscious includes an innate tendency to be
more introverted or extraverted, and to emphasize one of the four functions. For personality
development to be successful, the favored attitude and function must become dominant, and
they must be brought into harmony with the inferior opposites.
If this goal is frustrated by the external world, or if one misguidedly tries to make some
other function or attitude dominant, the unconscious will come into conflict with consciousness.
This inner cleavage may eventually become so severe as to constitute a neurosis, with the
attempt to deny one's true nature causing the normal intrapsychic polarities to erupt into open
warfare. Neurotic conflicts may occur between various components of personality, such as the
ego versus the shadow [(truth and lie?)], the dominant versus the inferior function or attitude, the persona versus
the anima or animus, or the persona versus the shadow. (See lung, 1932/1933d, p. 236;
1935a, p. 20; 1917/1972d, p. 19.)

Suppose that an inherently introverted child is pressured into becoming a pronounced
extravert by the parents (or by society). This unwelcome external influence disrupts the individuation
process, and causes the child's psyche to become a house divided against itself. The
conscious mind now seeks conformity with the parental dictates by emphasizing extraverted
behavior, and by banishing introverted wishes from awareness. But the introverted tendencies,
which must remain within the closed system of the psyche, flourish within the unconscious and
strongly oppose the conscious processes.

Jung had arrived at the conclusion that the phenomena supporting the apparition of the well-known "automatisms" (Despine, Bernheim, Janet) coincided with the involuntary eruption , in the conscious course of representations, of particular "affects" which usually originated in the vital history of the patient due to traumatic or conflictive events of a different nature. These events had the property of clustering round them, a ce rtain number of thoughts, mental images, and sensations. These ideational contents and affect-constellations were called "Feeling-toned Complexes" (using the term proposed by Ziehen). The "Complexes," which finally would be converted into the foundation of the entire Junguian system.

Such dissociation of the complexes showed that they possessed the capacity of functioning as something like a "secondary psyche," with a strong tendency to reveal themselves as "personified" and with a considerable autonomy.”
- http://www.meta-religion.com/Psychiatry ... hrenia.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7792481/003-P ... -Carl-Jung

In my opinion what this tells me is that the intent of the Cedu program was to mentally handicap you in such a way as to leave you in a state of “automatism”, or highly suggestible state. The tools were to direct us to dissociate from and banish certain aspects of self, and they were put into action (theoretically) by attatching those tools to our already existing “feeling toned complexes” (early trauma, disclosures, etc). The result of the tools is not to heal the complex (i.e. relieve the psychic tension) but utilize that psychic energy to pit all your opposing parts against yourself. Essentially what this means is your consciousness will only be acting within dissociated parts of a whole. This narrowing of consciousness to act within these limited cognitive functions is similar to the description of a hypnotic trance. Moreso the tools promote a cyclic process of catharting with respect to these complexes and polarities. Here’s what the Human Potential Movement has to say about catharsis:

“we achieve catharis by &dquo;triggering the complex.&dquo; Jones defines a
complex as &dquo;a group of emotionally invested ideas partially or entirely
repressed. In human potential work, we say that the postcathartic individual has
been deconditioned or unprogrammed and may be reconditioned or
reprogrammed according to new beliefs and values. At this impressionable
time, a person may readily fall in love, accept another person’s value
system, or reaffirm an essential faith in personal values and beliefs. It is as
if the participant were returned to the neonatal state, open and susceptible
to the imprinting process described by ethologists.
Because the postcathartic radiant person may be so impressionable, even
unconscious values of the group leader or cultural event which produced
the catharsis may be adopted. The responsibility of any programming
agent is very great. Practitioners of bioenergetics
(Lowen, 1971), the Synanon game (Yablonsky, 1965), primal therapy
(Janov, 1971) and gestalt therapy (Perls, 1969) utilize catharsis.”
- Catharsis in Human Potential Encounter
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1974

try another castle:
Yes, it does go back to Jung, but It actually stems more directly from Gestalt. Fritz Perls was heavily influenced by Jung.

Anonymous:
Very interesting read thank you for sharing

Anonymous:
Just saw this. Really amazingly done i think. This part was interesting.

http://www.paulmorantz.com/characterist ... cults.html
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTS (TOTALISTIC MOVEMENTS), COERCIVE PERSUASION TOTALISTIC MOVEMENTS AND CRUSADING TERRORISM

(End justifies the means)

 Dedicated to Dr. Robert J. Lifton

By:   Paul Morantz


CENTER FOR FEELING THERAPY
 
         I represented over 40 plaintiffs after this movement self destructed. My work covered 5 years and I reviewed more documents than I did fighting Synanon.
       
         Art Janov’s Primal Scream became a hit in the sixties encounter groups trend after John Lennon called it the greatest in Rolling Stone magazine.  So many young, lonely and insecure college graduates wanted to come that Richard “Riggs” Corriere and Joseph Hart broke away from Primal Institute to start the Center for Feeling Therapy in Hollywood.  At the time they were teachers at UC Irvine and recruited considerable class students to the center.[67]  The therapists purchased several houses and took out common fences to create the “compound.” They sent out advertisements that their programs could cause a complete transformation and cure in six to eight months.  But in the end, no one was ever told they were well enough to leave and most had remained 9 years[68] until the Center ended in a patient revolt following a revelation that certain myths taught to all were admitted not true.
 
       Prospective patients had to first convince their masters they should be taken on by writing long letters showing how bad their lives were and how much they needed the center.  When they arrived, they were placed in two-week “intensives,” and ordered to wear no makeup and remove items of identity.  Without contact but for long hours each day in isolation they were convinced by the interrogator how bad their prior lives were.
 
      The Center taught that all people were harmed by not being able to live by their true feelings, starting with being told “no” as children by their parents.    The Center patients lived together in apartments surrounding the compound.  Patients could date only other patients, and even then they were often selected by the therapists.  Permission was needed to break up relationships.  Like Synanon, it used horrible punishments and humiliations to control behavior.  A woman was made to moo like a cow in group, a man to sleep in a crib and a diaper, and a woman resisting an ordered abortion to carry a doll with weights around its legs.  Some patients who tried to leave were tackled and brought back.  Therapists routinely struck patients, and patients were taught to strike other patients who were suspected of having negative thoughts. Verbally berating a person in front of others-- called a “haircut” in Synanon --was called a “bust” at the Center and in one  community “challenging.” All therapists intermarried, but no patient married or had a child.  Therapists routinely had sex with patients.
 
     Riggs and Hart call themselves the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of psychotherapy and appeared on Geraldo Rivera and Johnny Carson.  They preached that their system could make their patients believe anything, including that Atlantis was rising from the sea.  Further, their system they admitted in the wrong hands would be like a buzz saw figuratively cutting off hands and feet, only the damage would be mental.  “Like Synanon,” they admitted, their followers to keep their sanity-- now that they had learned to live from feelings-- had to live in a community of similar feeling persons as the world outside would disorder them.     Also like Synanon, the Center created businesses that employed patients at cheaper wages.  Other patient-run businesses paid consulting fees to a Center-aided business consulting firm.  Patients were required to refer new patients and to hand out cards in the street promoting books written by the leaders.
 
    Not only were lawyers members at the Center, two lawyers gave up law practices to act as therapists with assigned patients at the center.  The Center regularly had open houses to interest others and recruit those appearing most suitable.  The Center plan was to gross $1 billion a year by making therapists out of patients and opening clinics across the country.  The patient – therapists were paid low wages, forced to donate long hours and could be punished or fined for losing a patient or not reaching recruitment quotas.  Patients in therapy were convinced to enhance their lives they are to bring their friends to therapy when in reality the ploy was to convince the friends to join.  Those clinic patients most suitable would be “funneled” inside to the Center community.
 
     The way the Center ended proved Lifton’s theory of “hundred flowers bloom.”  Patient-therapists tiring of long hours and poor pay finally spoke amongst themselves concerning their negative thoughts during a time period that Riggs was off in Arizona playing Cowboy on a ranch purchased with patient funds that had been raised to purchase a gymnasium for the center.  This led to a busting of Riggs and temporary allowing of free thought that in 48 hours became so volatile the Center closed and Riggs departed California.[69]
 
      Licenses were taken away in the longest license removal administrative hearings in history and has been called the greatest psychotherapy tragedy in history.

Anonymous:
Interesting posts, that I appreciated reading.

But perhaps my answer is just as enlightening.  

IT WAS ALL A SCAM.  Possibly well-meaning at one time, but a scam, none-the-less.

Parents were pulling their hair out trying to find a solution to deal with their bratty teens.  CEDU promised the moon, and of course, never delivered.

Moms and dads were only too happy to turn over their beloved child and monthly tuition of $3,500 (circa 1980) to the helpful staff of Cedu.  Not qualified, but helpful.

Wasserman was a snake oil salesman, that lifted techniques from various places.  Nothing he could truly call his own.  And who appointed him troubled teen guru, anyways?  Talk about a God-complex.
 ::evil::

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