Rather than a commune wonderfully described by Yablonsky and Janzen as reforming criminals, it made criminals out of non-criminals, and took former reformed criminals to a higher level of criminal violence. We let, we let crazy people into the door and we dont discriminate. you say the logic is faulty, but give no example and state why? Forty four years later, with Joe dead and Elan closed down survivors are still searching for someone in a position of authority to admit that what happened there was abuse. I dont have much to argue with what you say about the people in Synanon and do not disagree they helped others, they were there to do that. Ms Szalavitz wrote there are hundreds of emotional growth boarding schools, wilderness camps, and tough love anti-drug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. Childrens deaths in tough love boot camps include: Michelle Sutton, 15, Summit Quest, Utah, 1990. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. I am very aware of the early philosophies of Synanon. Simon had come to Synanon because his teacher, Abraham Maslow, the founder of the Humanistic Movement, of which Synanon was using its lingo, was predicting that Synanon would transform psychotherapy. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Hitler did great things for Germany, but it would be wrong to use them to assert we should all think of it as Spring Time for Hitler, as Janzen did of Dederich. First, Susan, good to hear from you again. Synanon was not unique. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. I had gotten your phone number from Ben Parks. And I still do. As stated in earlier chapter, one study on encounter groups in 1971 found the Synanon methods of attack therapy was the most likely to create psychological injury, and the experiment led to mental breakdowns and one suicide. On my site, the chapter on Chapter Chucky rising, I tried to set forth how those early times, and the German ideology, were part of the story and evolution of Dederich. If you want to really learn of how the inner controls were, you can contact me to get his depositions. Both are real experiences, but which is more important to learn from. Rose Lena Cole was court ordered to Syanon by a juvenile court judge in 1972 for running away from home. I informed him that some of the people he interviewed were in fact the ones who participated most in the violence and that he had been lied to. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. He told me that he had interviewed Synanon people and examined the UCLA records. Many who studied Synanon agreed. His motive, which Janzen missed, was the eventual plan to steal all the money. As I said in the beginning, my views changed at different times, and it was only upon reading of what happened at the clones was my view finally shaped. Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. Aftermaththe Synanon legacy The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. The Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place Some had warned of the potential dangers of using synanons (game) on adults. Anyway, you should learn about ones actual career before you make assumptions about it. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. Its like, its like the story Ive always told you, you know about the warden standing up on the, looking out the window of his office and down in the big yard and saying, Come here, George, watch em theyll all fuck each other pretty soon you know, we, we, we most of the people to come into our house and say I would like to live here and turn out to be very, very real crazy people. WebSynanon Survivors 136likes 149followers Posts About Photos Videos More Posts About Photos Videos Synanon Survivors Intro Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And A business illiterate, I dont know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between shipped and delivered. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. The media pointed to me, but there were far many who had joined and fought to protect me as well as expose Synanon. They appreciated the honesty of the work. there were a lot of people in the early days who left because of the way Dederich was taking it, and its too bad the idea grew out of person with such a tortured past. He wrote that many ex-members said that one day there would be a scandal and Dederich would run off with all the money. That is not ego. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. Pierce (1977) Also, because of time restraints, I put up the information so it is there and then go back and edit when I have the chance. In the introduction I asked the question was Charles Dederich just another sociopath who rose to power or was he a Jedi Knight seduced by the Dark Side. There just a, lots of them down in the Bank of America building in San Francisco, Pacific Union club, various law offices throughout the country, the streets, the ghettos, the penitentiaries. The methods the religious community used to break down the members are still used in rehab facilities across the United States. That for about a period of 7 years most of my friends were ex synanon members. Here we are not talking about riding horses, discussing the nature of man, or Emerson, but a reign of terror that was destined and predicted by many in the early 60s due to the Synanon methods of attack therapy, forced confessions, rewards and punishments and brainwashing about enemies. Although Synanon was officially shut down in 1991, it had inspired followers to start similar groups that perpetuated Synanons worst principles. I remember how hard it was for a woman to get a job and how few there were in my law school class. TimI didnt say I was the only one to fight Synanon. In 1974 Rachman and Heller had noted that many youths had dropped out of TCs because the methods were geared to curing adult addicts. But these rules had long been eradicated at Synanon the root of todays confrontational-type therapeutic communities. Such people probably would be happier in a small environment with given friends, lovers, jobs and a sense of purpose, where most needs are fulfilled. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. is a different Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. But he failed to see while controlled and anti-social pathology still existedit awaited release and that many were eager to respond to their old days ways if the message to do good turned to do bad. You dont present any facts that they are lies because you have none. The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. Comments here are for input, questions, and providing of facts. Did you change partners? : troubledteens. It just seems monstrous.". if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. He participated in several missions, and arguably would have lived a better life but for his exposure to Synanon. It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. "I can't tell you how many times a day I pick up my kid. Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. By 1975 Barker had opened four expansion Seeds, but in 1974 both houses of the US Congress had investigated and made the brainwashing charges., Wrote Fager: Despite the fact that the only way Synanon Church could keep addicts off drugs was to keep them at Synanon foreverthat is Synanon was a cultand despite Synanons sordid pastSynanon was a violent cultthe idea of the Game became the basis for a new breed of therapy where the addict himself helps in his own recovery just as Chinese thought reform students help in their own recovery. (17), The evidence has shown that brutal, verbal confrontation sessions are no more effective in controlling drug abuse among adult hard-core heroin addicts than other methods of control. I immediately sensed he was writing a book in which he was avoiding obtaining information that might challenge his view. The article listed more; interesting the largest number of abusive clones were in Arizona, where several juvenile probation officers had became visitor/participators in Synanon and recommended Synanon to officials and courts even though Marin County juvenile probation had stopped all sending of kids to Synanon and returning runaways. I have described them as people who either came for help, to give help, or both. Ramirez set up the synanon-based Phoenix House which hired former Synanite Ted Dibble to manage one of its centers. If one thought about it, does one really need to go to a rehab to stop taking pain pills or a little drinking or smoking marijuana; these were and are issues that the medical profession could not fail in guiding if one wanted to quitreducing, changing or eliminating prescriptions. When I asked if he had studied brainwashing he said he had not. Nicholaus Contreraz, 16, died at the Arizona Boys Ranch near Oracle, Arizona, March 2, 1998, of cardiac arrest, after instructors continued to harass him and force him to exercise even though he told them he was sick. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. [Chuck] Dederich [Synanons founder], an exile from A.A., is credited with being the genius behind the TC [therapeutic community] movement. Leon Brill acknowledges in The Clinical Treatment of Substance Abusers that the original therapeutic community directed by ex-addicts was Synanon though others, he writes, such as Daytop Village, Odyssey House and Phoenix House in New York City have used psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other professionals as part of their staff.. Society would have to catch up with Dederich on his ideas of dieting, exercise, and no smoking. WebSynanon Industries. Most of what I wrote was a no comment description in detail of Synanons evolution taken from its own records. The money was too good; parents panicking at the finding of a joint and willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money to anyone with the sales pitch, never quite understanding the tortures and deaths that awaited. I'm going to get up at 5:00, I'm going to feed the rabbits, I'm going to make myself breakfast, I'm going to make myself lunch, I'm going to walk to school. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. If you examine the full context, Janzen avoided anything that might lead him to information contrary to the views he wanted to present. Need your help! Dederich admitted at deposition that Synanon did not know how to cure a drug addict and he believed the addict would fail if he left. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. By the mid-80s Straight was operating in seven states. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? After all why should they not get paid for all that work? This intrusive, assertive therapeutic style works well for a few clients but may injure many more. Professor Bellis noted that, A number of clients. it would be interesting to see you rewrite a summary of what I wrote so it could be judged whether or not you understood it. (He is now sober. So I asked him how he could then discount it and he responded because if it existed, he would have to consider it occurring in religions (he is a Christian and lover of utopian communities) and other groups. Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters. [31] NBC continued with a series of reports on the Synanon situation on the NBC Nightly News. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. Ben had told me you felt I had added more to what you had written and your excellent children study, and when I went back and read it I saw there was ambiguity between when I was quoting you and when I was adding my own additional comment. If you have a complaint it is with Yablonsky and Janzen who had no understanding of the Synanon system. The real origins of the Cedu schools remained hidden from the students, their parents and much of the staff until years after their graduation or departure. 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Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. standing in line at a supermarketI get it reading the rags past the time. Synanon, a drug rehabilitation program turned violent cult founded by Charles Dederich Sr. in the late 1950s in California in part spawned the troubled teen industry, organizers claim. ), "[Tony] went to rehab at a young age, and I think it scared me," Jollett says. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. Died of dehydration. Vision Quests leader was convicted of smuggling cocaine. A belief system based upon coercive persuasion is expected by all who have studied it to be largely abandoned when the pressures are removed. "I became very interested in the idea of buried history, all the ways that we as children were told things that were patently untrue, and that we believed them," says Jollett, whose book will publish on May 26, just after the same-titled album. A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. The monster that now existed had to be stopped. 479 members Join group About this group Anybody who's been touched by The SYNANON Cult as well as anybody who's suffered ANY TTI programs or institutional abuse youre welcome, as well See more Private Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. Researched by Maia Szalavitz for a book in 2006 and for Mother Jones in 2007 she described the clone horrors and traced them back to Synanon. Since I alone have the records (UCLA has only what Synanon chose to give it) I felt obligated. I stated my views, but I gave statistics and reports to back them, most unfortunate to learn of the great tragedy that have occurred in the clones are all these years. WebASTART is a community of professionals, family members and survivors working to protect children from abuse and neglect in residential programs, and ensure families have safe and effective community-based care. While a credit to Dederichs foresight, it also unfortunately was a feature of his harmful megalomania. Stop telling me this didn't happen, because this happened.'" Elan did not offer the same type of tapestry as Synanon and thus probably caused more injury to its members. Paul please post this comment and not the other two thank you sir. Children say they were punched, kicked and forced to eat dirt for minor infractions such as failing to stand up straight. I don't know. After saying staying in Synanon is the addicts only chance for sustained life, in 1976 Dederich said that in 5 years there would be no room for the kind of people you are now. I asked him how he could write a book on Synanon without ever interviewing the person who fought it. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. What is known about the early days, was that the older joiners were more likely to stay than the younger, and its initial opening success per Ofshe reflected that then the current age of entry was 34 or older; they were people who had a strong desire to remove themselves from the demanding regime of an addict/criminal life. Yet by 1968, to justify ending graduation, if Dederich was correct, there was little success in curing addicts. It was only after the invasion of Iraq and discovery that the administration dangerously burned a spy to get even with for Sen. husband who wrote the administration had no evidence of Iraq weapons of mass destruction when it created a greater attack than 911 itself, that journalist took back their mandate to look for the truth and present that truth the country. As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. How old were you. I would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. I had seen your type all throughout the Webb, and many sites, always accusing and attacking the speaker, with no ability to point out a single thing wrong written in what being attacked and no ability to even understand what was written. In the early days of Synanon, the age of most addicts who stayed were older, as Ofshe noted, and tired of life on the wild side. So is the eventual years later reverting to a longing for the days of comrades and cause. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. Per Dr. Robert J. Lifton, this is what one would expect from any totalitarianism environment after removal. What lies did we believe wholeheartedly?". Eventually Dr. DuPont left government service and became a paid consultant for Straight, which had replaced The Seed after the US Senate likened its methods to North Korean brainwashing. Synanon added the game and other systems of punishment to compel compliance that would be copied by many sociopaths seeking riches, as discussed below, and lead to horrors to the participants in the clones that exceeded what occurred in Synanon. But I, its a marvelous business to watch these assholes come in and fall all over themselves and try bite me in the ass. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. For many academics, it is reviewing writing of others. Finally, even the founder was not cured, returning to marijuana by 1977 and to an alcoholic stupor in 1978 that led to drunken parties throughout Synanon, as Phil Ritters and my murders were plotted, and the supposedly rehabilitated and reformed celebrated at the news of resulting injuries. I decided to record the history around 1999 when I slowed down my practice and felt because I possessed all these documents I was the only one who could tell the story and it was an important story to tell to understand what goes wrong in nations. It does appear prior post returned and I did respond to you at length. Saying his death was caused by cardiac arrest, said Cohen, is really sugar-coating the pill as he was tortured to death and also denied medical treatment. But it is mans nature to flock together and unfortunately war with each other. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. I am a Synanon survivor. (c) Nov. 2012. Kids were assaulted and restrained without cause and all the rest. Ofshe who had been allowed inside Synanon to study it contacted Dave Mitchell in 1978 to ask if he was serious about investigating Synanon because violence could not occur randomly under Synanons controls and can only occur at direction of management (later admitted by Dederich at deposition). I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. The sicker he became, the more he was tormented and tortured by the staff. WebSynanon sought religious status in 1974, with Diedrich as its leader. And the grant had been administered by the founding director of NIDA who also happened to be the second White House Drug Czar-Robert DuPont. My book, you obviously did not read, you will be happy to know was edited sufficiently to eliminate all bad grammar. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. . And he told of the case of one TC therapist who forced female clients to perform fellatio on him while he talked on the phone to their probation officers., *..**. They made people like Bernie Kolb who I loved very much. 65-pound Michael Wiltsie, 12, at Camp E-Kel-Etu, a private Florida facility, in 2000 was suffocated to death by a 320-pound counselor who sat on him until he stopped breathing. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. How all of this occurred is set forth in the first book So Fair a House by Dr. Casriel. Yes it was a tough nut to crack and in part due to the protection it recieved. Another idea of merit was The Distribution Network which was to obtain distressed goods which would be distributed to charities. He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. Many entrepreneurs, previously excluded from the lucrative drug rehabilitation trade because of lack of a medical degree, have opened their own second, third, and fourth generation synanon-type therapeutic communities. I have the book and am reading it. is probably the most clear and present danger the presidential office ever faced. It a very sick place for teen agers,and during my time we were mixed in with adults. You might call that egotistical, but I felt I had that knowledge because I had engaged so many. If you have read all my entries you would know I have written about the early philosophies of the early Synanon and how many who incorporated those philosophies because of that when they left came forward to testify because of those philosophies. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. I remember you saying that you had not heard of Elan, yet you were aware of there being many Synanon spin off treatment centers. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. I delete only the crazies refuse to present any argument, rebuttal facts or evidence that anything stated was not true; but just a statement that anyone who would think that or write such facts belongs in a nut house. WebSynanon Museum (no password required) Please fill in both the "User ID" and "Password" entries; If you don't have a User Id and Password yet please Click HERE to Sign up: User Also, if a person made that choice sincerely, that person may have a better chance of succeeding in an environment with supporting persons and ex-addicts urging of them on while removing competing problems of how to support themselvessuch as a housing, friends and a job. There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. I'm going to rise up above all this kind of stuff, and I'm going to take care of everyone. '", He continues: "'I'm going to make sure my mom's okay, because she's crying in the room.'". Brill studied 2,100 admissions to Phoenix House and found a 96% drop out rate, and of the 4% who graduated, 25% had become staff there. It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. first, you say that many agree with what I wrote and others did not, and as you say, these agreements are expected and that some would be vehemently because of the psychological processes of denial. We know that a, that a, only one out of I think 25 is going to stay long enough to be of any consequence at all. I think Synanon was one of the most important stories of the 20th-century and leaves us with one of the most documented histories that is worth studying and learning from. Copyright Paul Morantz. And of course, this was what was best in early Synanon, i.e., peers to talk to and help if the craving starts; also support when kicking cold turkey, food and a roof. Sincerely And in March she went, flying into Georgetown with her family, a few friends, and Jordan I let yours stand this time because it is so clearly speaks of the speaker not the subject. In October of 1977 press conference Dan Garrett bragged that after beating the shit out of (Dinuba punks teenagers retrieving their car) we told them to tell all their friends this is just a taste of what will happen next time; and that as to the San Francisco punks we put 4 of them in the hospital. He further admitted they ran some cock suckers into a ditch and shaved their heads. Many are dead, many are in prison ,and worse many roam the earth as emotional cripples from just having come in contact with Joe Ricci,and his henchmen that helped him run the Elan Corporation. *..**. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. it would take a few generations for this to work out. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? Out of 1,180 addicts who had entered Synanon in its first five years of operation, only 26 had graduated. Now that Jollett is a father he has a 3-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter with wife Lizette he says that his life has undergone another transformation. As I said, for years I basically hung out with former members. Im rich. By the 60s the Los Angeles school system had schools (not all) already well integrated and taught anti-bigotry. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. Below is a chart made by Maia in Mother Jones: A. Orange on his website lists interesting quotes: Tough Love: Abuse of a type particularly gratifying to the abuser, in that it combines the pleasures of sadism with those of self-righteousness. While Synanons bragging of curing drug addiction was far off from reality, its public relations system did promote the concept that drug addiction was not impossible to overcome as many had thought when Synanon was conceived. In other words he would have to reexamine his beliefs and consider possibly his own victimization. 1 talking about this. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. You say it is unscientific nonsense, but prove that any of the statistics and studies were not accurate or that the events that took place in the clones did not happen. In the book The Tunnel Back Yablonsky, Dederich and another Dr. discuss that the Synanon system is similar to Dr. Liftons discussion of Chinese brainwashing. see review. 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