Date:
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:
"Patricia L. , Canada"
Subject:
est psychodrama: AKA, by Werner "Asshole Theatre"
To:
"Alan Eppel M.D." "Brian Furlong M.D." "Harvey Marmurek Dr." "Don Morgenson, PhD" "Dr. Kenneth Westhues" uwaterloo.ca
CC:
"Don Porterfield"
Old Horse. (BF)
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Patricia Lefave, Labelled, D.D.(P)
Part 3--Description of the behavioural structure of the training
An excerpt from "The Politics of Transformation: Recruitment - Indoctrination Processes In a Mass Marathon Psychology Organization" Published by St. Martin's Press/1993 By Philip CushmanNote: The use of the term "Vitality Initial Training" refers to the Basic Training of a well-known LGAT.
Day three
Day three, event seven:
Three of 3 "behaviour" subjects reported that everyone seemed just crushed by the heavy disapproval they faced. The trainer's disgust and anger appeared devastating to many participants.
[COMMENT: The pattern that was recognized in the first night again emerges: leniency and then attack. Several messages seem to be communicated in the "Red and Black" game: (a) !! the trainer's values must be agreed with, even if they keep changing; (b) regression, compliance, and merging are the primary psychological states of the training;!!
Pat: Does this above sound familiar to you at all? It does to me. Substitute "trainer" with Dale, Werner, father, or sometimes psychiatrist and you've got the differing concrete details of the same "game."
(c) humiliation and euphoria are the primary emotional states of the training; (d)" the trainer's expectations for the participants obviously does not apply to the trainer or the training (e.g., they may set the participants up, "
Pat: Of course when I said this to Dr. Badoe (and others) it got me a paranoid delusional label didn't it? "But WHY would a nurse want to "set you up? He would have no "reason" to do so..." (therefore, "It" did not happen lady. You only "think" It did because YOU are crazy.) How Dale must have smirked with delight at the "satisfaction" of that.
("lie to them, win at any cost, be dishonest, or double cross them). The double standard is a common occurrence in restrictive groups. In Vitality the trainer continually does many of the things he criticizes the participants for. The rules are for the participants, not for the trainer; he is not held to the same standards to which participants must adhere. The double standard in restrictive groups is often the cause of verbal, financial, or sexual abuses. This is a good example of the limits a restrictive group places on the participants: in Vitality it is considered to be unacceptable for participants to comment on elements of the training that break the training's own rules. It is a well kept secret, like the Emperor's non-existent new clothes.] "
Part 4--Description of the behavioural structure of the training
An excerpt from "The Politics of Transformation: Recruitment - Indoctrination Processes In a Mass Marathon Psychology Organization" Published by St. Martin's Press/1993 By Philip CushmanNote: The use of the term "Vitality Initial Training" refers to the Basic Training of a well-known LGAT.
Day four, event three:
Then there is large group sharing.
[COMMENT: This is a particularly interesting exercise since throughout the training the trainer has gone to any length to be right, yet he criticizes and humiliates the participants for doing the same thing in their lives. This paradox can be observed throughout the training. Participants are taught to criticize themselves. but they are not allowed to criticize the trainer or the structure of the training. Although participants are harshly criticized by the trainer, they are admonished for judging or making discriminations "about others."
Pat: You know us nuts always blaming those poor innocent "others."
Participants are not allowed to have opinions, they are taught to "surrender'' to the training and to the "universe." This exercise delivers a graphic message: don't criticize or have opinions, it's destructive in a relationship for people to believe they are right and the other is wrong. Symbolically, this message is the same message that has been delivered throughout the training: do not have opinions separate from or different than the trainer or the training. In other words, do not rebel.]
Day four, event four:
When participants can do that, they are told they will experience themselves as "the source of everything, the creator of your world": "No one can harm you, no one can victimize you."
[COMMENT: Again, one can see the attack upon the participants' judgements and values. This time, however, it is linked with the encouragement of a grandiose vision of the participant as a kind of god. In some magical way participants are promised that if they give up their personal autonomy, they will become impervious to the misfortunes of regular human life. By this point in the training the attack upon psychological separation and the encouragement of grandiosity is becoming more evident.]
The content of this exercise and the processes to follow seem to feature an extreme form of cognitivism that reinforces the prohibition against realistically facing and dealing with the external world. It encourages submissiveness, grandiosity, and regression.]
Day four, event six:
After a break, there is a large circle sharing. Participants take off their shoes and the style is more informal. None of the "behavior" subjects (O%) could remember the content of this session.
Pat: I would bet this is where the post hypnotic suggestions are well planted. Why is there 0% memory here?
Day four, event seven:
Then a very long exercise occurs. Three of 3 "behavior" subjects (100%) reported that participants are arranged in three lines or "circles" opposite one another.
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