REFERENCES
- Jane Howard. Please touch: A guided tour of the McGraw-Hill 1970.
- A journalist's book, a bit brash and unsympathetic, but covering a very wide range of experiences, and giving seemingly accurate impressions in most cases.
- Carl R. Rogers. On encounter groups, Penguin 1973 (1970).
- An excellent account of the basic encounter group, with a full discussion of the dangers of such groups, quoting many research studies. Down-to-earth and sensible.
- Howard R. Lewis & Harold B. Growth games, Abacus 1973 (1972).
- Two hundred of the best techniques of the human potential movement, compiled into an encyclopaedic cookbook. Useful as reminders for experienced people. Some useful theory in Chapter 7. Good bibliography. Some of the descriptions are a bit brief if you don't already know the things.
- Jerome Liss. Free to feel: Finding your way through the new therapies, Wilwood House 1974.
- Very good account of most kinds of personal growth group. Very personal and non-academic, a bit rambling at times. One technical appendix. Good on social and political aspects. Annotated bibliography.
- Caroline Sherwood. Control, Self & Society 1, 1973.
- This whole article is well worth reading. It bridges the gap between Gestalt therapy and body work.
- Barry Stevens. Don't push the river. Real People Press 1970.
- I love this book. If all books were like this, I wouldn't worry any more about the harm which words can do. Please read it slowly—maybe keep it by your bedside. Barry Stevens is a woman.
- L. Yablonsky. Synanon: The tunnel back, Macmillan 1965.
- The basic account of what Synanon was at the time of writing.
- John Enright. On the playing fields of Synanon, in L. Blank et al (eds) Confrontation, Collier-Macmillan 1971.
- A very personal account of experiences with Synanon. Shows how objectivity and subjectivity do not have to be opposites. You can get objectivity by being more subjective.
- Michael Kahn. The return of the repressed, in Eliot Aronson (ed) Reading about the social animal, W.H. Freeman 1973.
- An interesting paper giving some of the history of intensive group experiences, and classifying the various different group approaches in terms of seven common dimensions. Also in this book is the paper by Rubin about reducing prejudice by T-group training.
- William C. Schutz. Elements of encounter, Joy Press 1973.
- A really excellent book about open encounter, as distinct from basic encounter. Systematic presentation of definition, history, principles, physiological basis, psychological basis of encounter; theory of group development; hints on running a group; evaluation of encounter; applications of encounter. Really well done.