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m)effective with uncured alcoholics; cured drug addicts are most effective withuncured drug addicts; and cured homosexuals are most effective with uncuredhomosexuals. However, this does not mean to say or imply that one has tobe an ex-hysteric, alcoholic, drug addict, homosexual, to do effective intervention.The peer symptoms identification early in treatment is extremely helpful andin some cases necessary, but within a few weeks all patients, no matter whatthe variation of symptoms, realize they have the same problems,* that belowthe symptoms, they are all human beings with the same basic needs and desiresand the same basic fears.Third, psychoanalysis must be returned to the areas where it belongs : as ahighly specialized, very limited fine tool, in the tool chest of psychotherapy.Fourth, because of the relative ease of treating and training, large numbersof individuals can be treated and trained at little cost and relatively little time.This means that large numbers of skilled group leaders can become available tomeet a tidal wave of need. Costs are within realistic ranges."Fifth, it is logical to see the role of the professionally experientially trainedpsychiatrist, psychologist and S.W. as consultant and trainer of the trainers,as well as being used as the agent of initial interviews, medication, testing orusing traditional ancillary roles.The significance for society is that the large number of untreatables couldnow be treated ; the large numbers who could not afford treatment could nowafford it ; the large numbers who wanted treatment but had no available therapistin the area could now find therapists ; a large number who were unwilling orunable to commit themselves to many years of therapy could now look forwardto major reparative psychotherapy and reconstructive (major personality change)therapy being done in a matter of months for most, or 1 to 2 years for some.Indeed, this process, if fully applied, could make a significant impact relativelyquickly on major portions of our sick society.[Exhibit Xo. 14 (d)]AREBA, Inc., A Humanizing Process foe the Family of ManIntroducing AREBA, A New Concept in Rehabilitating Drug AddictsAND Other Emotionally Disturbed PeopleA new psychotherapeutic treatment program for middle-class and upperclassadolescents and adults— designed for severely character disorderedpersonalities who do not need a sustained 3-year programto get wellIn 9 months—the time it takes to conceive and give birth to ababy—AREBA can reprogram a person toward in-the-world behavioraland emotional health.At highly successful Daytop Village, 3 years used to be required to rehabilitatean addict. But, today, new techniques have reduced the time to a year and ahalf. Now, Psychiatrist Dan Casriel and Ron Brancato, former director of programat Daytop, have utilized their experience to establish a new kind of programfor middle-class emotionally disturbed people.Frankly, AREBA is a hard-nosed program that isn't easy. (At least, at thebeginning. When people have been in AREBA a few weeks, they usually start tolike it * and to develop an esprit de corps about AREBA.The program starts by telling newcomers to stop acting out their symptoms.Immediately. Then, it goes to work on the distorted feelings and defeatisticattitudes which have caused the symptoms to exist in the first place.AREBA makes people face the truth about themselves, find out who they are,and grapple with how they feel inside. At the same time, it trains people tofunction in the world in which they must live.The AREBA program is designed to treat people whose emotional problems preventthem from functioning effectively and responsibly within the boiuuhiriesof normal society. There are no rigid age restrictions. AHERA i.s strui'tiired* Inability to accept love or express Identity anger. This Is the subject of another papersubmitted for publication by the author.* "The Use ajid Abuse of Paraprofesslonals"—unpublished paper by the author.