Maia Szalavitz

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249 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Infamous · Paris Hilton’s Troubled Teen School Shut Down by the State of Utah · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

is to rat other people out, essentially.

In order to move up to the next level, which is necessary in order to graduate, because if you get set back, then you've got to stay there even longer, you have to be especially vigorous at attacking other people in group,

Or, you know, oh, my God, somebody had a hidden packet of potato chips or something they weren't supposed to have.

I will tell on you.

All of this stuff means that it's very difficult for the kids to have any decent social relationships.

in a situation where they're away from home, they are completely isolated, and the entire mode of operation is to psychologically destroy you so that we can rebuild you as a conforming, decent citizen.

I think it was when her documentary came out.

I may have known about it earlier just because I sort of kept track of celebrities who had been through these places.

But when that documentary came out and she was open about, you know, having been traumatized,

It was pretty much when I heard at least the specifics of what had happened to her.

And it occurred to me very quickly that it was immediately after she came out of there that the so-called sex tape was released.

And the thing about these programs is.

I have talked to dozens of young women who have been through them.

And the prevalence of people who after they go to one of these places end up in stripping, the sex trade, sex work in general is way disproportionate to what you would expect.

Why do you think that is?

because they tell people that they're worthless, that they're pieces of crap.

And I mean, some of them, I don't know if Provo Canyon did this, but a lot of them do these horrible seminars where you have to dress up

in revealing clothes and the boys yell slut and whore at you.

Oh my god.

Yeah, this is therapy, people.

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