Carl Harvey Jackins (June 28, 1916 – July 12, 1999)[1] was the founder, leader and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling (or RC).
"[2] While practicing Dianetics, he developed the concepts of "re-evaluation"[2] and "discharge" and came to believe that they could be encouraged by the "exchange of aware attention" in the "co-counseling process".
[8] Jackins is said to have claimed that several governments were influenced by RC[9] and to have thought that eventually religion will be replaced by Re-evaluation Counseling.
As he told it, he began to develop Re-evaluation Co-Counseling after observing a troubled friend make changes in his thinking process through being patiently listened to while he cried.
[10][11] Curious about the effect of this crying, he worked with others to develop a method of reciprocal counseling based on the recollection of psychological and physical traumas or "hurts" accompanied by various types of emotional catharsis.
He held that rational thinking was prevented by the accumulation of past hurts, which could be removed by repeated discharge through co-counseling.
", Jackins said that homosexuality, "as distinct from the desire to touch or be close, is irrational, is the result of distress patterns (often very early in origin and chronic), and will disappear by the free choice of the individual with sufficient discharge and re-evaluation.
"[3][13] In the 1980s, RC members began to accuse Jackins of sexual misconduct, which was said to range from favoring attractive young women in the organization to rape.
Jackins wrote that "The use of these rumors to attack me and through me the Community has been a very nasty problem in the last few months, and there is some indication that some of the spook agencies of the government and their dirty tricks department have been involved in this.
"[3] In 1981, when allegations of sexual misconduct began to emerge, the World Conference of the Re-evaluation Counseling Communities resolved unanimously to "reject and condemn, as completely contradictory to the spirit and practice of Re-evaluation Counseling, the vicious gossip and slanderous circulation of written attacks upon Harvey Jackins.