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Therapy Gone Mad: The True Story of Hundreds of Patients and a Generation Betrayed

Carol Lynn Mithers. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, (419pp)

Calling psychology, a perfect window to a country's soul,'' freelance journalist Mithers documents the little-known but sorry story of Feeling Therapy, a psychotherapeutic movement whose original aim, following Arthur Janov's Primal Scream theories, was to deal with complaints of numbness.'' Feeling Therapy was an outgrowth of the human potential movement that swept the nation in the early 1970s, and its charismatic leaders, Joe Hart and Riggs Corriere, built their success on the proposition that people had become estranged from their real selves. Their cure was to strip away layers of socialization and defenses, until patients were as unintellectual and open'' as children. The techniques they used--brutal, nasty and protracted--relied on amateur therapists to inflict feelings of worthlessness on the mainly young patients who moved into the Center in L.A., becoming part of a new family.'' When the Center closed in 1980 amid multiple lawsuits, the judges in the cases ruled that the plaintiffs (who realized some $7 million in judgments) had been the victims of an...

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