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them get better emotionally. They told us societal problems are making people ill and the New Alliance Party is going (o change things so pedple will get better. They got angry with me when I asked for individual therapy. You need group therapy not individual therapy’, I was told, so I left. Then they started sending me literature about their political or- ganizations. In the literature and in the therapy ses- sions they try to destroy any other left or- ganization by saying bad things about it. They also destroy a progressive organiza- tion by recruiting away its members. They call themselves Leftists but they use the dialectic method just to recruit people. When you get involved there is no dialectic, it is static, they don’t progress beyond the criticism of the other group. They have no real program, they just say ‘if you are not with NAP you are the enemy’. They raise a lot of money by saying they are doing all these things, but they are a fraud. It is not true that there is no pressure to work with the New Alliance Party’ when you are in the therapy. They tell you if you are working with them you will feel good. I said ‘I need help, I need in- dividual therapy’. Instead they had me assisting thern in the group therapy ses- sions. They don't like it if you pay a low fee and don't work for them politically, such as doing propaganda work for thé New Alliance Party. if you pay more, you get a better work position in the organiza- tion. If you can afford a lot, you can get individual therapy. Everything is money or power, ** Some people are about people money, more people, more power. The social therapy is just an excuse to recruit dela ameter él fooled, especially the members. It is just like their many other activities, concerts, rallies, they are active in many areas, but they accomplish noth- ing. Certainly it is legitimate as part of psychologi- cal counseling to recommend that a person be- come involved directly in the community — even to the extent of becoming part of a political move- ment. But for a patient to know the therapist is in- volved in a particular political movement is to consciously or unconsciously steer the patient, whois ina dependent and fragile relationship with the therapist, toward that political movement. This error is compounded by the fact that, accord- ing to several Therapy Institute staff members, a portion of the fees for the therapy go to support the work of the New Alliance Party. Therapy centers with tiesto the New Alliance Party include the following Jocations listed in the November 2711987 issue of the National Alliance: for Social Therap te 7< e af 1 Th cae {llinols: CR =0 Center for Crisis Nogsaaliza- «lie = 7 Dey - tion. cs. on. Mississippi: J Center for Crisis Nor- analiza Cultism summed up the feelings of some NAP critics when he told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Basil Talbot that NAP “is a left group with the modus of a cult.” Clouds Blur the Rainbow - 9