Back in the beginnings of the Assembly, Betty G. touted a book called,
Reality Therapy , by William Glasser. The essence of this book is that almost all
mental institutions could be instantly emptied by the application of
this author's method of confronting "the so-called mentally ill" with
their "phony illness that was only an excuse to escape the
responsibilities of life (reality)."
I'm not sure if this book launched Betty's version of the use of
"consequences" in the Assembly living situations that eventually
included husbands giving their wives this kind of shock therapy, but if
it didn't, the two did have a symbiotic relationship of some kind.
The book made some valid points, but the proof really is in the eating,
as this man did not "empty any mental hospitals" with his book, and
Betty did not produce great Christian character via her version of this
in the Assembly.
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