This Obit was posted in "Is there any relationship btwn Synanon and Daytop?" thread. The quote from the Psychology Today article presents Daytop's philosophy in a particulcarly telling way.
In an influential 1968 article in Psychology Today, Dr. Bassin described the organization's no-nonsense attitude:
''The psychological basis for treating drug addicts at Daytop Village differs radically from conventional methods,'' he wrote. ''Neither punishing the addict by jailing him for extended periods nor slobbering over him with sympathy and pity has shown any great rehabilitative value. Nor has it helped to regard the addict as a sick person, a 'medical problem,' as some well-meaning folk put it. The Daytop philosophy is to consider the addict as an adult acting like a baby: childishly immature, full of demands, empty of offerings.''