Mutual Criticism

xxx, 96 pp. "Mutual Criticism is an extraordinary document, striking for its psychological insight, and startling to those who believe that sensitivity training and group encounter are major social inventions of our own times. John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community in 1848, experimented with interpersonal feedback in the mid-1800s. He adopted the practice as an integral part of the governance of one of the most successful of the nineteenth-century American communes, and as a prime method of helping individual members to achieve goals of personal development."