[9] Psychologist Donald Eisner writes in The Death of Psychotherapy that attack therapy "attempts to tear down the patient's defenses by extreme verbal or physical measures".
[10] Tudor describes attack therapy in Group Counselling, writing that the individual is ridiculed in front of others, and cross-examined and questioned about their personal behavior patterns.
[20] In Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Users, it is noted that in Synanon, attack therapy was referred to within the group by members simply as "The Game".
[22] In addition to comparisons to Synanon, Miller and Rolnick also compare the methods of attack therapy to Scared Straight!, and "therapeutic" boot camps, in their book Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change.
[23] In her book Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-teen Industry Cons Parents And Hurts Kids,[24] Maia Szalavitz describes the abusive attack therapy techniques by Straight, Inc.
[26] Rumors of the use of attack therapy also surround the John Dewey Academy, as many ex-residents have written online about the brutal three-hour, thrice a week "confrontation groups" that make up the treatment program at the school.
Some schools under the WWASP umbrella used it more often than others; for instance, attack therapy was pretty much part of the daily routine at Tranquillity Bay and Cross Creek.