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Therapeutic Boarding School Conducted Conversion Therapy and Forced Student to Watch Movie About His Parents
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Smile, Or You're Doing It Wrong: Andy Glaze On Relentless Positivity, PTSD, & The Healing Power Of Movement
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"We had a kid there who was gay and they decided they were going to be able to make him not gay, and did all these weird things. They made him like wear a pink crown and all these different things. And it was just, it was like, it was total emotional torture. We had a kid whose Mom killed his dad and he was like a real famous guy and they made a Lifetime movie about him. And the headmaster made him watch the Lifetime movie with all of us."
Glaze described abusive practices at John Dewey Academy, a therapeutic boarding school in Massachusetts where he was sent after rehab. He detailed conversion therapy attempts on a gay student involving forced humiliation, and an incident where a student whose mother murdered his father was forced to watch a Lifetime movie dramatization of the killing in front of the entire student body. Glaze characterized the school's aggressive group therapy methods as weaponizing fear and shame.
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- Rich Roll Podcast
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- Smile, Or You're Doing It Wrong: Andy Glaze On Relentless Positivity, PTSD, & The Healing Power Of Movement
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- 13:38
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