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Saturday 8 November 2014

How trouble comes together!


Extracts from the aacultwatch forum (old)

........... The origin of this trouble in AA appears to be coming from five sources.

1.The institutionalised teaching of the AA program in rehabs which combine this with "tough love" treatment models derived from the Synanon cult. Synanon ran from 1958-1991 and was notorious for its abuses. Its treatment model for addicts and alcoholics spawned a government backed program called The Seed and its derivative Straight Inc. which became an institutional model for a multitude of “tough love” treatment programs and other correctional behavioural programs for young people in the USA (including fundamentalist Christian programs and boot camps). Many of these programs are still going today, re-inventing themselves under new names after they get closed down. The problem with young people’s institutions was the subject of congressional hearings. (I will give info on this in the next post.) These tough love therapies have also been combined with institutionalised twelve step drug/alcohol rehabilitation. Some programs are recognised to involve brainwashing and torture amounting to child abuse. Law suits have resulted in over $15,000,000 being paid in compensation to victims of “Tough Love” treatment abuse http://www.cafety.org/board-of-advisors/693-phil-elberg-esq. I think this cult tough love has been feeding back into AA from the treatment centers since at least the mid-1980s; possibly the since the 1970s. Around 31% of AA newcomers in the USA graduate from treatment centres. You can find some more info and film about Synanon in the “Useful Resources, Paul Morantz” thread on this forum. This is an article about the Synanon cult and its derivatives: “The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry” http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry The troubled teen industry in the USA was also the focus of a recent conference organised by the  International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) and Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY) http://icsahome.com/pdf/fax_mail_spev_dc.pdf. Synanon Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon

2. Drug addicts in AA. Chris R. of the Primary Purpose Group of AA, Dallas, Texas, is a cocaine addict. Chris R. Cocaine Anonymous http://www.specialmeetinggroup.com/chris-r.html. Wally P. (Back to Basics) is also a cocaine addict and a good friend of Chris R. (You can hear Wally say this in the recording in the following link) Wally P. Cocaine Anonymous http://www.specialmeetinggroup.com/wally-p.html. I suspect the likes of others such as Wayne B. of the last Mile Foundation and Dick B. are also a cocaine addicts; and may themselves be the products of brainwashing in treatment programs. Chris R. and Myers R. are also employed by drug rehabs. Info on The Last Mile Foundation can be found in the AA Minority Report 2013, Appendix 1k Wayne B, on the aacultwatch blog.  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0cW38yqky8uR3hDRGgtVEJqMjg/edit?pli=1

3. The digging up of cult groups from the 1940s by the likes of Wally P. and Dick B. and Clarence S. and them teaching “that’s the way it was” “the original” program; when it wasn’t like that everywhere. Clarence S was a leader of a faction in Cleveland in the 1940s. The Oxford Group which was not AA, but which the early AA members broke away from between 1937 and 1939 would be classed today as a high demand group or cult. The Little Rock group appears to have been a cult group. Info on these can be found in the AA minority Report 2013 on the aacultwatch blog.

4. There seems to be an across the board lack of knowledge of AA traditions, history and Concepts and apathy/complacency in the majority; so not many want to, or feel confident to take on responsibility for real leadership in AA. Those that can lead also know that they can’t do much unless they are backed by enough in number from the AA group members.

5. We are living in an age of fundamentalism and radicalisation in the world outside AA. This will be having its effects. More info on this can be found in books such as “cults in our Midst” by Margaret Thaler Singer, Janja Lalich and Steven Hassan. You can find info on these in the “useful resources” threads on this forum. I’ll post info on the congressional hearings soon.”

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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