Dean Gotcher's View of Transformational Marxism, Group Dynamics and Encounter Group
Bernard PyronSee:http://www.issuesetcarchive.org/articles/aissar74.htm
"Dr. William Coulson was a disciple of the influential American psychologist Carl Rogers and for many years a co-practitioner of Roger's humanistic "non-directive" therapy. In 1964, Coulson was chief-of-staff at Rogers' Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California.
One of the popular methods of psychotherapy in the 60's and 70's was the "encounter group." The participants in such groups, under the direction of a facilitator, were encouraged to unmask their real feelings as they interacted with the other group participants. The practice has widely entered the church in various forms.
As an initial experiment, Rogers and Coulson introduced the "encounter group" dynamic into the Order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in southern California. The results were devastating.
The following thoughts from Dr. Coulson are excerpted from an article titled "Repentant Psychologist: How I Wrecked the I. H. M.. Nuns"
"Coulson became a cohort of Carl Rogers at the University of Wisconsin and later, with Rogers, moved to California to apply Rogers theories to interested groups. He explains. . .
"Once I got to Wisconsin, I joined Rogers in his study of nondirective psychotherapy with normal people. We had the idea that if it was good for neurotics, it would be good for normals. Well, the normal people of Wisconsin proved how normal they were by opting out as soon as they knew what it was we wanted. Nobody wanted any part of it. So we went to California.....and found the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the IHM's. They agreed to let us come into their schools and work with their normal faculty, and with their normal students, and influence the development of normal Catholic family life. It was a disaster."
"Having abandoned his once lucrative career, Dr. William Coulson now lectures to Catholic and Protestant groups on the dangers of psychotherapy, with a particular emphasis upon the "encounter group" dynamic."
I did not know William Coulson when I was at Wisconsin as a grad student majoring in experimental psychology and for a short time after finishing graduate school I worked on the Schizophrenic Project Under Carl Rogers in the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute, where William Coulson was some kind of Project Associate or Research Associate under Rogers. I had been on an earlier project under Rogers as a Research Assistant when I as a grad student in experimental psychology. Coulson is a Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist who got his degree at Notre Dame.
I have put photos of Transformational Marxist Social Engineers on my Facebook Page recently.
The first was Theodore Wiesengrund Adorno, whose name is on the 1950 book. The Authoritarian Personality - which used the F Scale and the E Scale. Adorno's father was Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund, a Jew. Adorno's mother was Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana, a Catholic from Corsica and a singer.
The second Social Engineers I put on was Herbert Marcuse, another original Frankfurter. Adorno was associated with Berkeley while Marcuse was at Brandeis, where Maslow was stationed. A.H. Maslow was another Social Engineer along with Carl Rogers. Marcuse wrote Eros and Civilization and was one of the fathers of the sex lib movement of the Counterculture.
One of the encounter group Facilitators in Southern California , who worked under Uncle Carl of Madison's Squaw Bay, William Coulson, told me that "Maslow hung out with the Frankfurters" in an E Mail, by which he meant that Maslow being at Brandeis, was friendly with the Frankfurter Herbert Marcuse,
J. C. Gilchrist, my major professor at Wisconsin, said Carl Rogers was like a soft pillow. In the fifties. Gilchrist did experimental work in the Group Dynamics movement and did reviews of experimental studies on the behavior of small groups by key figures in that movement, such as Kurt Lewin, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter and Kurt Back. They did experiments on small group behavior and on ways of creating cohesiveness in groups..
Dean Gotcher focuses on Carl Rogers as one of the founders of the Encounter Group of the sixties and seventies, which made use of some of the findings of the Group Dynamics Movement on the creation of cohesive groups to change individual attitudes, beliefs and behavior, and which moved toward a collectivist culture and society which opposes the Christian based culture of the individual.
The third and last of the three Social Engineers I put on Facebook recently was Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist who wrote, with some others, two books on Educational Goal taxonomies. All public school teachers must be certified by their knowledge of the doctrines contained in Bloom's Educational Goal Taxonomies.
Dean Gotcher quotes Bloom as saying "“We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
Bloom says "Members of the taxonomy group spent considerable time in
attempting to find a psychological theory which would provide a sound
basis for ordering the categories of the taxonomy. …consistent with
relevant and accepted psychological principles and theories.”
(Benjamin Bloom, et al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1,
Cognitive Domain)
And Gotcher found a footnote in Bloom's Affective Domain book, on
page 166, where Bloom acknowledges the influence of Theodore W. Adorno
and Eric Fromm on the psychological theory, philosophy or ideology
contained in his two volumes, Educational Goal taxonomies. Book II
Affective Domain p. 166.
“1. Cf. Erich Fromm, 1941; T. W. Adorno et al., 1950” Benjamin Bloom,
Book II Affective Domain p. 166. This is Bloom's footnote
acknowledging the influence on his thinking from Erich Fromm and
Theodore W. Adorno. Adorno was an original Frankfurter Marxist who
posed as a personality and social psychologist in writing his 1950
book, The Authoritarian Personality, in which he claimed that the
authoritarian personality and fascism are caused by the family and
Christianity. Erich Fromm was a Transformational Marxist psychologist
and close associate of the Frankfurters.
Bloom writes that "The affective domain is, in retrospect, a virtual
‘Pandora’s Box. It is in this ‘box’ that the most influential
controls are to be found. The affective domain contains the forces
that determine the nature of an individual’s life and ultimately the
life of an entire people”
Bloom's second book on Educational Goal Taxonomies focused upon the affective domain.
Benjamin S. Bloom was an important Transformational Marxist change
agent who had a great influence on the American educational system
after the fifties and sixties because he wrote the books by which all
teachers in the U.S.. are certified.
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