Posted by Mitchell on December 28, 2002, at 8:24:07
In reply to Re: open discussion, posted by Dr. Bob on December 27, 2002, at 17:49:28
The question will probably remain on the table until people of western nations stand up to abusive authority.
The process demonstrated in this research project typifies a group process enforced across the nation under the guise of substance-abuse treatment. In the case of drug treatment, pseudo-medical settings are defined by courts, who order defendants into group therapy.
Here, the pseudo-medical setting is defined by the pseudo-medical authority of a physician.
In drug treatment, private firms operated mostly by former substance abusers attempt behavioral modification procedures that require clients to accept unqualified diagnoses of addiction or acoholism, to embrace disproven notions about addictive personalities, and about the existence of a hypothyesized "higher power." Meta-reviews have shown most of the work attempted in these behavioral modification groups to be inneffective.
Here, medical authority infers there is some advantage to participating in a group where often harmful processes are only treated as positive influences. There is no reliable science or qualified consensus underlying the procedure. A scientific approach to medical policy related to spiritual matters will consider harm reduction.
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