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DANIEL H. CASRIEL...
Psychiatric Director The Casriel Institute of Group Dynamics New York City...
...appreciated your article on the questionable merit of various shadowy encounter-therapy programs. It is important that laymen be informed that techniques such as Daniel Casriel's simply break down the patient's psychological balance and result in no constructive, integrated experience...
...teach members of his groups "to grab hold of a feeling-any feeling-and express it in a series of yells, screams and moans which increase in volume to almost unbearable intensity." Overwrought, the patient is then soothed by the rest of his group, as well as by Casriel, if he is present, or by one of the ex-patients who run most of Casriel's groups. No effort is made to understand the emotions that have so painfully -and dangerously-been aroused...
...Casriel's technique is one version of what Maliver calls "psychological karate," an approach that precipitously strips away emotional defenses "in the naive view that by recognizing their pathological sides, people will automatically become healthy." In fact, without the careful preparatory steps taken in professional psychotherapy, such recognition can cause serious psychological damage. The effect is similar to that in encounter groups where participants are psychologically assaulted under the guise of "openness" or "honesty...