This is due, in part, to many Synanites having left to form their own lucrative drug rehabilitation companiesa degree in medicine is not a requirement., ***. Jollett also healed by opening himself up to therapy, music and, eventually, love. And yes, there is some bad grammar. But these rules had long been eradicated at Synanon the root of todays confrontational-type therapeutic communities. While the abuse in Synanon was bad enough, it pails in comparison to a stream of sociopaths who hijacked the system to become Millionaires through the abuse of children; in some cases even as morally deprived as organizations that kidnap children and sell them for profit. It was known for communal living, practices such as group "truth-telling" sessions they called "The Game," requiring married couples to split and take new partners and female members to shave 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. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. 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. But before I wrote this, there were many before me who wrote the same thing trying to put an end to the warped Synanon system that as Dederich said was based on hate. 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. Out of 1,180 addicts who had entered Synanon in its first five years of operation, only 26 had graduated. The story of Synanon is how one man took good people and turned them into terrorists. He was constantly accused of being a malingerer and faking it when he complained of being sick and unable to go on. Experience indicates that when these counselors use an especially intrusive, aggressive approach, frequently debasing and harshly confronting clients, they may do more harm than good. 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. Some people, whether from genes or experiences, or combinations thereof, just are not capable of living a good life on their own. Bringing Luis Home September 26, 2022 10. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. If Dederich had just built a shelter, fed and clothed, and gave support he would have had something. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? Dr. Roger Meyer and psychotherapists Thomas Bratter and Gary Forrest warned about using synanons on kids. A scheme that was illegal, it led to arrests in Arizona. He noted that the child seemed lost in the rigid hierarchy and confrontation tactics of the program. He wrote: As a clinician I am concerned about the effects of intense, violent verbal interaction upon young teenagers engaged in a sensitive process of identity formation. And back is my reply to you. By 1971 Dederich would submit that while 10 to 12,000 people had gone through Synanon only about 10% stayed free of drugs for as much as 2 years, which was similar to the statistics everyone else concluded, which were the same at Lexington Hospital when Synanon was founded. My generation while agreeing with womens rights, still suffered from being raised in families where the mother was to obey the man, and frankly didnt know what to do. This is not limited to addicts. Glasser, he wrote, found that eighty six of every hundred admissions to a large residential program terminated themselves against the advise of staff with most terminating within the first 30 days. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. After all why should they not get paid for all that work? Instead it is led to countless deaths, destruction of lives and still continues today. 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. 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 The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. CED had similar protection but blew it when he started ordering attacks and got caught on his tapes. also, to write a good book, you have to think that is what you are doing or it will not be a good book. After 30 years of pondering, I came full circle and realized that sociologist Richard Ofshe had analyzed it right from the start. While forced to admit the attack on me, there is no mention of Phil Ritter or Eidson, etc., in his book, Rise and Fall of Synanon (which was same working title I had) rather a statement that the media exaggerated the violence and that there was no violence inside Synanon. To me there is good reason why Elan was not on the the map. TTI Survivor - Leviah Rose. A popular TV series was based on John Maher, a colorful former Synanite, who formed his own second generation Synanon in San Francisco called The Delancey Street Gang. It reasoned that success stories generally had little to do with the programs themselves. What you write is not experience of all. 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. Totalitarianism societies in the end always end in abuse and a we vs. they war concept. The Hammer Podcast. Naya Arbiter I suspected this would happen, because it is well known that people in cults go from outrageous anger to a final whimsical yearning at the end for a time of spirit and comradeship. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. I would say some things are not debatable. I would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. How old were you. ***. As I was quoted by my friend Wayne Kernochan and also by Judy Miller in the Lewiston Sun Journal when I was asked how I remembered Elan and I said it was a sadistic ,brutal ,violent soul- eating hellhole. Per Ofshe, Dr. Elizabeth Missakian, former Pres. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. Fourteen-year-old Martin Lee Anderson was murdered within 3 hours of his arrival at a Florida boot camp that was run by the local sheriff, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen, on January 6, 2006. NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. And I think he saw I might be going down that path, too. He was a great man and kind human being. Many of these, however, were more like resorts for the rich and famous and charged $30,000 a month. He wrote that the Synanon experience in playing the game, peers caring for peers without doctors, created a cure for drug addiction. He also forced women to have abortions and almost 200 men had vasectomies after Dederich forbade any more children. The media pointed to me, but there were far many who had joined and fought to protect me as well as expose Synanon. Another myth perpetrated by old time Synanon members, and apology writers, like Janzen, looking for fans among ex-Synanon members, is that Synanon played a role in civil rights. 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. Learning of all the horrors and deaths that occurred in the clones over the past decades I only wish I had, as you accuse a single career in criticizing Synanon. Arbitrarily, I would say that young persons under 16 years of age should be excluded from these programs and that careful evaluation be given admitting persons between 16 and 18 years of age . Its a real field day.. 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. Many have the support of state agencies, because of the past publicity for Synanon, unaware of what happened in California and assuming therefor these programs worked. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. Synanon is only one chapter. Some children were taken to foreign countries, or islands, although foreign countries have done more to stop them than our government. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. While I cop to an ego in this area, my comments to Janzen had nothing to do with it. But we are not Communist China, Communist Russia or Germanys Nazis. A recovering alcoholic named Art Barker in 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and run almost entirely by kids for kids. Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. For readers, Hollywood Park is a powerful memoir about one man's journey after he escapes a violent cult as a child. But that questionwhile interestingis really moot; the fact is that while shelter and support is of assistance, the Synanon system based on hate (as stated by Dederich) and punishment was not only a failure but its achievement in publicity, like a Synanon movie starring Ed OBrien, has led to 50 years of horror to countless victims all over the world and continues to do so. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. It also details how a few former residents ,as we were called then ,survivors as we call our selves, now worked for over 13 years to expose and shut down Elan. Dawnne Takeuchi, 18, was killed when she was thrown from a semi-truck near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, in June 1994. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. The study of cults can teach us the problems of nations. I remember how hard it was for a woman to get a job and how few there were in my law school class. If you want to really learn of how the inner controls were, you can contact me to get his depositions. Despite this, despite the warnings of so many other notables, despite Art Barkers total lack of credentials and less than admirable past, The Seed received a $1.8 million U.S. government grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) soon after it opened. 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. We either do that or we stop. 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. If CED had that kind of protection, he would have died a king.. Even when Synanon was given an exemption for cold turkey treatment, Synanon created an illegal clinic and took in persons needing care other than addiction for which it required a license. It was far from being just Synanon. How all of this occurred is set forth in the first book So Fair a House by Dr. Casriel. This was Synanon had its worse, andit is not permitted here. Neither AA, Synanon, or those that followed, were based on any scientific studies. Most of what I wrote was a no comment description in detail of Synanons evolution taken from its own records. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. It was reported between 6000 and 10,000 people lived in Synanon from 1958 to 1968 but apparently only 65 were ever known to have completed the program and elected to graduate to life outside the community. According to Department of 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. Further, it is foolish to treat all persons in the same manner. "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. Died of dehydration. And thank you for further documenting the direct connection of where all these horribly abusive re-education brainwashing treatment centers came from, the mother of them all Synanon. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. Spankings with paddles often drew blood and Phil Williams was beaten to death in the ring. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. But, Ms. Szalavitz writes, the shuttered programs simply changed their names and reopened, often with the same staff, in the same stateeven in the same building. Today as it is known that alcoholic recovery has a 40% success rate with no treatment at all; it is doubtful AA can surpass that. Jollett believes the violence to which adults were subjected has received widespread attention. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. Psychiatrist Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber visited Dr. Ramirez in Puerto Rico and setup her own synanon-based TC in New York City called Odyssey House. So lets say you wanted to give the Third Reich some credit, which could be done, what positives can you say about Synanon? 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. 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. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center (Jollett explains that he, like many other former Synanon kids, suffered from reactive attachment disorder, in which a child does not form a healthy emotional bond with his caretakers.). From Musicos past, one can infer antisocial makeup, but when he came to Synanon he was able to function and had acceptance, something he probably could not otherwise obtain. when the uniqueness of adolescent psychological development is not understood and incorporated into clinical practice. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. 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. He was so wrong and he refused to write many who studied Synanon came to an opposite conclusion. no Mr. Vandeman I am not deleting this as it is not as vulgar as the others. Further, Yablonsky married a Synanon woman and admitted he felt any attack on Synanon was an attack on her. "I can't tell you how many times a day I pick up my kid. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. Real crazy people. . 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., *..**. In 1971, the federal government, through he second White House Drug Czar, Robertq L. Dupont, Jr. MD. Good luck. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. Let alone, 'Okay, here you go stranger I've never met, take care of my kid. Were you happy with the violence? Yet by 1968, to justify ending graduation, if Dederich was correct, there was little success in curing addicts. Founded in 1958, Synanon sold itself as a cure for hardcore heroin addicts who could help each other by breaking new initiates with isolation, humiliation, hard labor, and sleep deprivation. 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. Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. Ofshe further pointed out Dr. Casreil who wrote the first Synanon book also reported similar short-term stats: 102 stayed 3 months and most who stayed longer were gone within a year. They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. All the civil rights marches, the anti-Vietnam protests, were uniting people of all races. I am very grateful that you have included in writing your blog about Joe Riccis version or interpetation of Synanon. And he started saying, 'Don't be like me. While it is not unusual for one party not to want the other party to the successful (and government suffers from the two-party system) it did seem that Bible Belt Republicans really were really upset by the idea that a black man was president; and we suffered for it because any plan, reasonable or not, was to be made sure it could not succeed. Dr. Jerome Jaffe, the first White House Drug Czar, had written the foreward to Dr. Meyers book which had called for caution in the use of synanon-style screaming matches against kids. Order from Amazon, XHTML: You can use these tags:

. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. Here we go!' Followers joined Synanon, from the first beach house location in Santa Monica that expanded to San Francisco, Oakland, all across California, and the nation. Thousands of people joined and the organization acquired millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place : troubledteens. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. In other words he would have to reexamine his beliefs and consider possibly his own victimization. Dr. Casriel in 1963 reported that of 62 people located of 160 entries, 19 were graduates, while 43 remained inside Synanon. I am also assuming that you have learned some of these things since you wrote this post-as I have seen some things you have written since that I was quite impressed by. Tony, always angry as a child, sank into addiction at an early age and went to rehab. But that dwindled as the joiners became younger and Dederich turned his attention to using the media and Hollywood to produce a flow of persons, goods and services to develop by 1976 over $30 million in assets and the start of large salaries and bonuses. On June 27, 1990, six weeks after the death of Michelle Sutton, 16-year-old Kristin Chase died at the Challenger wilderness camp in Utah of hyperthermia and dehydration after a 5-mile forced march in 105-degree heat. [Chuck] Dederich [Synanons founder], an exile from A.A., is credited with being the genius behind the TC [therapeutic community] movement and 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; in an article for Substance Abuse: Clinical Problems and Perspectives written in 1981, Deitch and Zweben acknowledge that Synanon is the progenitor of the present-day therapeutic communities., As Fager summarized: Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on synanons. Synanon Industries August 23, 2022 2. God bless you. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. I offered the information to Janzen and he didnt want it. Any dammed fool who wants to come in and say Id like to live with you and we let them in. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. In 1972 he reported on the case of a 12 year old boy who had been admitted, along with older clients, to a second generation Synanon called The Odyssey House in New York City. 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. 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. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. A former member of Elan wrote: Elan is best described as a, sadistic, brutal, violent, soul-eating hellhole. At Elan, the Game was transformed into constant screaming and degradation and the physically rough treatment became all day violence. He became the one to blame, he was the angry one. As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. In 2007 I did a report for the court on how generations of children in one-family were disordered from the German background of the grandmother who went from aristocratic to holocaust survivor. WebSynanon was a religous community. 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 generally, as to your comment, my book was not in disagreement. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. Sincerely Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. And while it may be true that economics was a motivation, economics are part of the motivation for everyone on these issues. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. **, Guy Endores book, Synanon, noted ex-members very early complained that Dederich had forced out the original Board of Directors and replaced them with hand picked trained seals. Congratulations. This issue obviously needs further elaboration and research, but there are suggestions that there are age limits below which this form of treatment is contraindicated. Even AA, which similarly indoctrinated a specific dogma the 12 steps is seen as not so successful as promoted and/or a proper therapy to cure alcoholism as it demands a dogmatic conversion and life time attendance that has been proven not necessary. 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. The entirety of my writings say the same thing. For Jollett, experiencing his dad's love was a life-changing experience. still, we had not had a good Republican president since Eisenhower. But they have settled now, particularly, as stated below, as I slowly learned the results of so many of the Synanon clones, which resulted in so much death and brutality. Vision Quests leader was convicted of smuggling cocaine. That for about a period of 7 years most of my friends were ex synanon members. Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Synanon Survivors. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. Perhaps worse, was Dederichs friendship with Caesar Chavez wherein CED convinced Caesar to live like a rich man on La Paz and import the game which led to mutiny and the downfall of the UFW. And it will be edited further. Rocker Mikel Jollett's Memoir on Cult Childhood Is 'Primal Scream' Aftermaththe Synanon legacy Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. 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. Jollett and his older brother Tony were taken from their parents his father a recovered addict and former convict, his mother an anti-government activist from Berkeley when they were just 6 months old. As I wrote, starting in 1998, off and on for 3 years; then quitting, starting again in 2009, stopping in 2011 to write the book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults, and picking up in 2012, that question continued as did the question did Synanon leave any positive legacy along with its revelation that its processes dictated its ultimate outcome and was predictable from the start? He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. Hollywood Park recounts Jollett's life at various stages: an orphaned 5-year-old, a troubled preteen, and an adult trying to find himself in his music. Further it established shelter and group support could aid those truly wanting to stop. I responded to him that the media never knew the extent of the actual violence and as far as violence inside Synanon, how many incidents would you like to know about? Later I sent him a copy of the History of Synanon violence with over 80 incidents and he never responded nor did I hear from him again, nor did he ever apologize to the public for writing a book in which he intentionally avoided the actual evidence. 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. First touted as a rehabilitation center for addicts when it was founded in 1958, Synanon helped thousands get sober and amassed $30 million or more in assets. A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. 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