Word: valuelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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-who are too engrossed in their own emotions fully to feel another...
Candlelight illuminated the huge main room of the pewless church as groups gathered at long tables set up around the room's edge. Much of the talk concerned the night school set up by Harvard for its workers- called by many present a "valueless program" which only prevented the allegedly underpaid workers from taking on second jobs...