I became a community organizer :-) and then I realized that the "Encounter Groups" were being "taken over" by the "homeland security" ("pacification," it was termed) of that era. When I organized a confrontation with the program, the net result was that Radical Therapy "took over" and the influence of the "Encounter Groups" was lessened. I and my friends were shoved aside.

In 1976 when I tried to "come back" and got admitted as a 2nd B.A. student in psychology at U.C. Berkeley, I "sneaked" into a packed APA meeting in Washington, DC and heard Carl Rogers in person give a major presentation. Unfortunately at Berkeley afterwards it was the negative agenda of Zimbardo "influencing attitudes and changing behaviors" which took over. Radical therapy (RT) was marginalized (as "Games People Play") and again .. I was shoved aside.

In 1993 the RT was revived, with a new concern for the ongoing encounter with the prescientific character of social science, by the Radical Psychology Network. We are honored in this discussion that today Ttt is the listowner for their listserve. Eventually some of us worked with their leadership to get PsySR to take up the project of networking meaningfully with the "client-survivor" activists. However the "torture denial" issue took the upper hand and PsySR got involved with the PENS process and the conflict between "building cultures of peace" and the military torture agenda at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram. Once again we were shoved aside.

I've also presented Zimbardo's reductionist behavior management agenda as the theory behind the shove aside. Have people ever looked at his "here and now" and his denial system around feelings?