Case study: Kathleen Wilson - alt.religion.scientology

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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine

More options Jul 27 1997, 3:00 am

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <d...@xemu.demon.co.uk>

Date: 1997/07/27

Subject: Re: Case study: Kathleen Wilson

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In article <33DA0EF1.5...@worldnet.att.net>,

Monica Pignotti <Pigno...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:

>> How do you count the figures? What might well happen is that
>> with some people you succeed, and with others they (a) leave if they
>> can or (b) run away afterwards if they can't. Plus to some extent
>> forcible detention will piss them off and make them hostile anyway.

>I'm going by what the exit counsellers vs. deprogrammers have reported
>which I admit, might not be totally accurate since there is no way to
>verify. I read that Ted Patrick himself reported only a two-thirds
>success rate, while most good non-forcible exit counsellors report a 90%
>success rate. And yes, that's exactly what happens.

Precisely. The figure reported might as well be "90% of people who
willingly stay to the end of the counselling will be successfully
recovered from the cult." Then there are another 23% who insist they
wish to leave; they are failures whether you let them leave or not.

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