Word: quested
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TIME'S Behavior section this week turns its attention to a vast and fascinating phenomenon that is coming to be known as "the human-potentials movement"-"a dedicated quest," as the story explains, "conducted in hundreds of ways and places, to redefine, amplify and enrich the spirit of social man." Much of the reportage on the East Coast and in the Middle West was provided by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, while in Los Angeles Eleanor Hoover viewed the movement through her experience as a onetime psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Further attended came from Reporter Andrea Svedberg, who attended...
Kataoka's quest is not always rewarded. While traveling by train across Kyushu one day, he glimpsed a "great masterpiece" standing in a paddyfield. Hurrying back to the field, he was surprised to find the beauty gone. After questioning nearby farmers, he found the sad answer: the splendid scarecrow was only the village elder in a moment of meditation...
...activities typify a leaderless, formless and wildly eclectic movement that is variously called sensitivity training, encounter, "therapy for normals," the bod biz, or the acidless trip. Such terms merely describe the more sensational parts of a whole that is coming to be known as the human potentials movement -a quest conducted in hundreds of ways and places, to redefine and enrich the spirit of social...
...institute's beautiful Pacific retreat south of Carmel, come 25,000 people a year-and if the pilgrim is turned away there, he can find similar sanctuaries in San Diego (Kairos), New York (Aureon, Anthos, GROW),Chicago (Oasis), Houston (Espiritu), Austin, Texas (Laos House), Washington, D.C. (Quest), Decatur, Ga. (Adanta), Calais, Vt. (Sky Farm Institute), and scores of other com munities. The groups can vary in size from half a dozen friends meeting in a big-city apartment to hundreds and even thousands of complete strangers at a psychological convention. The gamut is as wide as the cost, which...
Even though the movement's advocates deny that it is therapy, many people visit the new growth centers or attend informal group sessions in quest of precisely that. The American Psychiatric Association estimates that in California, more troubled individuals already seek help from the human potentials movement than from "traditional sources of psychotherapy." Yet the human potentials group sessions are largely valueless, and even dangerous, for the severely disturbed. Psychologist Carl Rogers, one of the movement's charter members, and many others consider it a learning experience for "normals" rather than a therapeutic experience for the sick...