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APA Task Force Report: ENCOUNTER GROUPS AND PSYCHIATRY
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Samara" ---When I was at CEDU, we were forced into encounter groups led by indoctrinated adults... to participate in psychodramas that had nothing to do with our own personal trajectories. It was scripted, it was coerced, it was artificial, it was brutal, and it engendered a false sense of enlightenment that tragically prodded us AWAY from our authentic selves.
I can think of many places "smoke and mirrors" belong - but not in a "therapeutic" setting.
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That is unfortunate, Samara, but we cant conclude that "all" Encounter Groups are this way. I think CEDU was abusive (not encounter Groups).
If CEDU forced you to listen to Frank Sinatra albums at full volume until it caused hearing loss I dont think we could conclude that Frank Sinatra is damaging or abusive.
I think encounter groups can be dangerous but they dont have to be. They can be helpful also.
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Whooter:
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--- Quote from: "RTP2003" ---Oh yeah, I almost forgot-----Hey Whooter----Eat a bag of dicks. Eat all the dicks.
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You are a very strange person and this is a very strange expression. I never heard of this insult before. Do you suffer from castration complex?
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RTP may have been referring to a bag of Gummi Worms.
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Well , I guess that interpretation I could swallow. The dick part may have been Freudian in nature. I wont take it personally.
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Samara:
Well paint me a picture of a beneficial encounter experience. Everything that happens.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Samara" ---Well paint me a picture of a beneficial encounter experience. Everything that happens.
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My wife could probably best describe the details of how these things work. She attended one in the early 1980's. People come out of them with a fresh perspective on life and their relationships. I dont think the change was anything long lasting and that is why the encounter groups couldn't exist on their own as a solution. They needed to be paired up with ongoing therapy to have a lasting effect but the encounter was a big first step. I think it was also found that if a person had a psychosis of some type it could be harmful to them.
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none-ya:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---
--- Quote from: "RTP2003" ---Oh yeah, I almost forgot-----Hey Whooter----Eat a bag of dicks. Eat all the dicks.
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You are a very strange person and this is a very strange expression. I never heard of this insult before. Do you suffer from castration complex?
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RTP may have been referring to a bag of Gummi Worms.
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Well , I guess that interpretation I could swallow. The dick part may have been Freudian in nature. I wont take it personally.
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http://www.eatabagofdicks.com/
Why is it that my responses are just moved at will. I am simply commenting on what I read here.Curiosity over the origin of the phrase, nothing more. Seems things have been a little slow around here lately,and administrator needs something to do. well here is some more
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... of%20dicks
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