ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the process and experience of recruitment and affiliation integral to the treatment program at Recovery House. It is the goal of Recovery House to create "uncomfortability" among its residents, especially those in the early stages of treatment. Although the tension is intentionally created by the programmed treatment process, it can only be legitimately defined as the result of the pathology of the indicted resident. The comments of several intermediate level residents illustrate the prevalence of the experience of treatment-induced pressures and the various means residents have of comprehending and coping with them. Like any movement that requires ideological and emotional commitment from its members, Recovery House is ridding itself of "free-riders", of the "dead wood", the people who, in TC orthodox terms, are not "ready" for treatment. The echoes of evangelical theology are unmistakable in the doctrine of consequential thinking about the primacy of pathology.
