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APA Task Force Report: ENCOUNTER GROUPS AND PSYCHIATRY
RTP2003:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---"Encounter Groups" I remember these in the 1970's they were a big hit with the progressive crowd! Self proclaimed "normal people" or people without a need for therapy would pay to attend these groups to awaken themselves or experience a short term thrill, similar to taking a drug. Everyone was into finding new ways to get high or expand the mind without much work. The artsy types would take these and would open them up to new ideas and expression to help with their artwork or writers block.
I believe these morphed into corporate seminars designed to motivate their employees and were later found to be also useful in helping people with addiction and easing the effects of PTSD of child abuse.
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Encounter groups are bullshit. Smoking marijuana will give all of the benefits mentioned with none of the mindfucks. And it is the safest, most effective method of treating PTSD known to medical science.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot-----Hey Whooter----Eat a bag of dicks. Eat all the dicks.
heretik:
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---"Encounter Groups" I remember these in the 1970's they were a big hit with the progressive crowd!
...I believe these morphed into corporate seminars designed to motivate their employees and were later found to be also useful in helping people with addiction and easing the effects of PTSD of child abuse.
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Really? Some of us who experienced versions of these "groups" as children ... now suffer from decades of PTSD. Some might call that child abuse. Some do call that child abuse.
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It is abuse. Was yesterday and still is today. Especially when dealing with children who were not looking for a new experience, they were just trying to deal with the one in front of them at 13 yrs. old.
Thanks good work, Ursus.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---"Encounter Groups" I remember these in the 1970's they were a big hit with the progressive crowd!
...I believe these morphed into corporate seminars designed to motivate their employees and were later found to be also useful in helping people with addiction and easing the effects of PTSD of child abuse.
--- End quote ---
Really? Some of us who experienced versions of these "groups" as children ... now suffer from decades of PTSD. Some might call that child abuse. Some do call that child abuse.
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If you read through the task Force report you will see that Encounter groups can be dangerous depending on how they are applied. They can range from 90 minutes (original design) to several days. Just because people were hurt by them doesn't mean they are all hurtful. You probably attended an encounter group which was mismanaged. The original groups tested in the 1970s showed that these group encounters could help people with PTSD of abuses they suffered as a child.
--- Quote from: "RTP2003" ---Smoking marijuana will give all of the benefits mentioned with none of the mindfucks.
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I agree with this!!
--- Quote from: "RTP2003" ----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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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.
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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