Richard, I really want to hear more. This is very important for my research.
You see, Art Barker did NOT invent the Toilet Seat punishment, it came from The Synanon. I have been trying to link Art to the synanon or a synanon derivitive program for some time.
Check this out....
"Fifty-three years old with a thinning crew cut and a vocabulary brimming with buzzwords from the Big Book of AA, Pat knows all about ?program sobriety.? He checked into his first rehab in 1972 after returning from Viet Nam hooked on speed, opium and pot. He got clean nine years and a few more rehabs later in a VA program modeled after Synanon, a cultish ?therapeutic commune? run out of a seaside hotel in Santa Monica that advocated a brand of ?attack therapy? that used equal parts of hippie love and harsh ridicule to break through addicts? defenses. He remembers nights scrubbing the floors with a toothbrush and days wearing a toilet seat around his neck. ?That?s because I was full of shit,? [ This Message was edited by: GregFL on 2004-05-04 08:14 ]