1. ‘Treatment’

2. Self-help

3. Real Therapy

Helper

Healthy, good and normal

A searching human being

Counselor, guide, human

Client

Sick, bad and deviant

A searching human being

Client, searcher, human

Aim

No Cure but Control

Help each other
Find his or her own way

Client feels better and finds his or her own way

Method

Behavioral ‘therapy’
Plethysmography
Behavior control
Judicial pressure
Cognitive ‘therapy’
Repeating words
Group pressure
Path analysis

In addition, support circles can be helpful.

Interview
Acceptation of conscious and unconscious feelings
Discovering how to live with those feelings

Results

Stress
Alienation of the self
Splitting families
Some recidivism: 7.4%?*¹

Recognition of feelings
Acceptation of feelings
Comradeship
Hope for the future
Ethical codes
Some recidivism: 6.25%?*²

Insight
Acceptation of the self
Growth of the self
Consciousness
Some recidivism: 18.8%?*³

Vision

Human as a mechanical being

Human as a social being

Humanistic psychology, dynamics of the psyche

Clients

Only people who are not able to communicate and to control themselves

People who are able to communicate, to listen and to control themselves

People who are able to communicate, to think and to control themselves

Survival

Play the game
Stop
Accept
Take the good and forget the bad

Sometimes it’s too heavy for someone to listen to the troubles of others. Take a break, employ humor or split into subgroups

Going through a period of uncertainty and doubt, but in the end there is usually no problem