Its core philosophy prescribes regularly relating painful memories to a peer counsel or group and releasing strong feelings by crying, shaking, or laughing as the best salve for psychological wounds.
[3][4] This led Jackins to establish Personal Counselors Inc. which aimed to "engage in, conduct and teach the art and science of Dianetics.
[4] During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jackins continued to build Personal Counselors, Inc., and in the 1960s and 1970s took RC from Seattle, where he first practiced it, to the rest of the US and then to other countries.
[1] Quoting from the Boston Globe: "Boston high school sophomore, Keondre McClay said he was pressured by the head of a district-sponsored youth advocacy program to attend an overnight retreat in Newton, where white adults asked the Black teenager to wrestle out his emotions on a gym mat with them.
For more than an hour, he recalled recently, they hugged him on his bed and entreated him to return to the group 'counseling' session while he hid under the covers screaming, “Please leave me alone!”.
[6] The corporation owns trademark in the terms "Re-evaluation Counseling", "RC" and "United to End Racism".
He is a former community college mathematics teacher from Palo Alto, California, and a graduate of Yale and Stanford.
[8] United to End Racism (UER) is a program made out of members of Re-evaluation Counseling (RC), which publicly states that its aim is to eliminate racism "on an individual basis" using Re-evaluation counseling, a practice invented by Harvey Jackins.
United to End Racism is one of a number of non-profit organizations that represent RC in public forums.
The organisation appears solely to exist to service activist conferences as an invited body, and only sporadically carries out other activities.
[14] Dennis Tourish and Pauline Irving in a 1995 article compared his system of management to the communist state model of democratic centralism.