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APA Task Force Report: ENCOUNTER GROUPS AND PSYCHIATRY
Awake:
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--- Quote from: "Awake" ---… and we shouldn't discount the widespread proliferation of sensitivity training, or encounter groups, being due to selling the, supposed, keys to unlocking peoples unlimited human potential ( the Human Potential Movement), the cover under which many modern encounter sessions operate under (est and lifespring among the most popular).
… Are you living up to your full potential? I don’t think so. But you are accountable for that, no one else. What is stopping you from being the best you you can be? What is keeping you from being the life of the party? What about you is stopping you from getting the wealth you deserve? Are you one of those people that isn’t having great sex?!!
The only thing keeping you from getting those things is that you don’t believe in yourself enough to get what you want! But you know what, you ARE good enough and you CAN do it. It’s clear your family and friends are not supporting you, and you are not supporting them. Make the commitment for yourself, and your relationships, to come to my seminar and get the life you REALLY want! (You know who you are)… -- MindLifeDynamaSpringEstEncounereminarsTraining--- Making you real again.
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If anything it isnt designed to lower a persons self esteem or to be abusive it is quite the opposite.
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What do you mean by “it” exactly? The human potential movement?
Whooter:
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What do you mean by “it” exactly? The human potential movement?
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"Encounter Groups"
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Awake:
Actually Encounter groups ARE designed to lower ones self esteem, or raise it. What it is not designed to do is produce zero change toward one end or the other, so in the context of force I do believe it is abusive. Encounter groups themselves have no attitude to impart. It is a tool to impart the attitude of the leader and group onto the individual. As far as the encounter group is concerned, it is the group leader who is in charge of defining what self esteem is for the others.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Awake" ---Actually Encounter groups ARE designed to lower ones self esteem, or raise it. What it is not designed to do is produce zero change toward one end or the other, so in the context of force I do believe it is abusive. Encounter groups themselves have no attitude to impart. It is a tool to impart the attitude of the leader and group onto the individual. As far as the encounter group is concerned, it is the group leader who is in charge of defining what self esteem is for the others.
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If they match the encounter group with ongoing therapy it can be successful producing permanent or long term positive change. The encounter group activity on its own is not very long lasting but can produce quick break throughs that normal one-on-one therapy would take years to achieve.
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psy:
--- Quote from: "heretik" ---Psy,
Two sets of circumstances, one group (whooter is talking about) comes to the table willingly seeking knowledge or just a experience, the group (you are referring to (kids in a program)) are forced to the table and punished with the identical experiential tool. Unbelievable.
There is no wiggle room here at all the "encounter groups" being used (from what I have read) in programs can only produce negative results. This is putting it kindly.
Whooter, are you getting this or are you still wanting to compare to the 70's when your wife was experimenting.
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But even a program that recruits "consensually" will not really have full consent because it's almost never informed. Lack of informed consent through fraudulent advertisement. It's a cult. The idea is to take people in and keep them for as long as possible in order to make as much money as possible and then they eject them onto the streets like human garbage. Many cults do this, many programs do this, it's really the same thing, but you're entitled to your opinion.
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