I found http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/misc/hottopics/fcwheel.htm http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/misc/hottopics/fcwheel.htm to be the most interesting link on facilitat

I found http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/misc/hottopics/fcwheel.htm http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/misc/hottopics/fcwheel.htm to be the most interesting link on facilitated communication. Look at it through the lens of two-from-four thinking. http://www.cawtech.freeserve.co.uk/nat_neg.2.html http://www.cawtech.freeserve.co.uk/nat_neg.2.html We think it is a binary question: does the message originate with the patient or the facilitator. Think harder; there are two binary questions. Where does the message really originate? Where does the facilitator think it is coming from? It is very tempting to think that these two questions are pretty much the same and most always have the same answer. This gives us two of the four possibilities: it really works, its is deliberate fraud. The piece by Doug Wheeler opts for the third of the four possibilities >The effect was powerful and personally devastating, as feared. Most of the facilitators were unaware of the illusory nature of facilitation, so the bottom dropped out of their world, like a cuckcolded husband discovering that the child wasn't his. (except the other way round, kind of, it is the weirdness that makes this so interesting.) So there is one story about the people in comas and another different story about healthy people being sucked in by a powerful illusion. The scary part of the second story lies in the escape route. An outsider insists on doing careful experiments. Those inside the illusion are annoyed at the waste of time, but unconcerned by the possibility of a negative result. So when Madoff conned lots of people was there a similar illusion at work? People were convinced that he persuaded them that he was legitimate. But he could have been in a coma, and his investors facilitators, producing the message: these are great, safe investments. The standard narrative credits Madoff with extra-ordinary powers of conmanship. That has implications for us as potential marks. We must look outside and be vigilant against an external enemy. But if the facilitators experience is part of wider picture we never suspect that key communications are not coming from him but from us.