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Others reported in 1973 that the Synanon absorbing members was retention, not rehabilitation, a result found unfortunately in many of the Synanon clones, which Synanon bragged 2,400 existed. It just seems monstrous.". 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. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. Justice For Our Angels. In Maias book it is described one woman was not even allowed to leave a teen rehab after she turned 18, the organization threatening her mother to toss out her younger child if the mother took the older one back. Former Synanite Dr. David Deitch, then a Phoenix House director, has stated, A client must have the choice of leaving treatment, even if the youngster is on probation and the alternative is jail.(19) Richard Ashley wrote in Heroin that, The only power of decision the member retains once he enters a TC is the decision to leave. Dr. Efren Ramirez, founder of Phoenix House, has said that you dont rehabilitate a person against his will.. WebSynanon Survivors is celebrating 4 years!!! But I also concluded that Synanon would always be dangerous because of the nature of the Synanon game. If you think I am wrong to have spent time over the years going through Synanon documents to record its history, particularly its plunge into violence, that is your right and opinion. Have a merry. A belief system based upon coercive persuasion is expected by all who have studied it to be largely abandoned when the pressures are removed. just state that and agree to the group rules!! WebNeed your help! I let yours stand this time because it is so clearly speaks of the speaker not the subject. And with that all being announced on the wire, murder attempts begin. But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. The Hammer Podcast. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. You know ts great fun, to watch that. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. When they asked me, if an addict enters Synanon, how long will it take? My answer is, If he is lucky, it will take forever.. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. A Violent, Deadly Cult With Forced Abortions and Shades of Scientology FOLLOW THE LEADER San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Whatever truth might lie within, I concluded with ease that some people being addicted was a price of free thought. The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. but if I missed something please tell me. It can be found on Amazon. He had beaten me time wise. Synanon Industries August 23, 2022 2. Most of what I wrote was a no comment description in detail of Synanons evolution taken from its own records. 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. 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. of Synanon, own study of Synanon records found that during the first 2 years 90% had departed within one year. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. That is, she was forced to run in the summer sun until she collapsed, and then she was left laying in the hot sun until she died. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. Synanon. The Synanon organization, initially a drug rehabilitation program, was founded by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich, Sr., (19131997) in 1958 in Santa Monica, California. By the early 1960s, Synanon had also become an alternative community, attracting people with its emphasis on living a self-examined life, You think I didnt experience Synanon, but I did. During these group assaults on individual residents in the hot seat, especially newcomers, any castigation and ridicule appear to come from the whole community of clients. He wrote that the Synanon experience in playing the game, peers caring for peers without doctors, created a cure for drug addiction. Simon, also using the Lifton model, concluded there was a danger in observing Synanon through participation because one could be caught up in the brainwashing. But I wrote my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults with the view of writing the only book anyone need read on the subject. It did make news. He participated in several missions, and arguably would have lived a better life but for his exposure to Synanon. The Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place I am still not in the same league with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, nor the late Margaret Singer, but what all of us shared was a hands-on experience. That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. 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 also provides no real therapy and is the same program for everyone. Jollett believes the violence to which adults were subjected has received widespread attention. Thats the nature of our business. That is just a fact. Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. The musician was careful in his portrayal of his mother, whom he feared would come across as a one-dimensional villain. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. I suppose if they werent why Id have to find another business. In law, lawyers too much use the technique of attacking opposing counsel when they cannot attack the facts. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. While Dederich suggested to world nothing in the game was to be taken seriously, he would admit in deposition in 1979 and 1981 that in operating Synanon, he did not give direct orders, but would inject everything he wanted members to do in a Synanon game or by his dialogue at Think Tables. Maybe it's the leader's fault. 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. And it is no wonder that almost everywhere Synanon went, Dederich picked a location that was out of zone in which he knew they would be kicked out of, allowing him to claim outrage and obtain sympathy and donations. 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. Posted by 6 years ago. 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 I immediately sensed he was writing a book in which he was avoiding obtaining information that might challenge his view. Some of the kids when graduated became counselors for cheap wages, and there is probably nothing more vicious than an 18 year-old who was abused and now given the power to abuse. 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. There is likely truth that allowing contact with past relationships might lure someone to leave or want to get high, but that is the persons choice. Another boy froze to death (given no coat or shelter), and the victims even included former Synanon children who were placed in these camps by parents still believing in the Synanon system. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. 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. Im rich. Synanon Survivors. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. "Then my dad became extremely interested in my life. It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. Professor David Bellis was one. Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. Watched the documentary Ethel on HBO and compare the public speaking of the Kennedys to the embarrassing debates that took place in the recent election. But I DO know the culture of Synanon. Charles was arrested while drunk in 1978 and was barred from any further leadership within the 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. As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. His motive, which Janzen missed, was the eventual plan to steal all the money. 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. As to the legacy, conclusion was not difficult. Kenton, through no fault of his own, was placed in the Synanon school by square musician parents and at age 18 became the youngest member of the Imperial Marines. A business illiterate, I dont know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between shipped and delivered. By the mid-80s Straight was operating in seven states. 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. Yes it was a tough nut to crack and in part due to the protection it recieved. Per Ofshe, Dr. Elizabeth Missakian, former Pres. Relationships at the school between students and staff seemed to have little formal structure or sense of normal boundary and a students life was always under threat of intense and unpredictable disciplining and punishment. Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . And it will be edited further. Her alleged crimepetty theft. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? Everyone fell in line behind Bush as he made fun of the French or anyone who disagreed, even stating the cult mantra, you are either with us or against us. But when Bush burned a spy to take revenge on a Sen. who spoke out, the media woke up and with it so did the country. Pierce (1977) 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. Were you happy with the violence? Dederich in the early days would not release statistics claiming that a dope fiend would identify with whatever percentage failed and therefore would not come; finally declaring in 1967 it was such a failure that no one should ever leave. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. 9. In addition, group practice becomes an anti-therapeutic factor with the T.C. Synanon did not even keep it from the public. Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on the game. In my book Synanon was only one chapter. Fager wrote: Dr. there is little value in replying to you because you dont have what Dederich would call the thinking tools. You say there are lies But you dont list them. Sincerely According to newspaper articles of the day he has publicly disclosed, Ive smoked pot, popped pills, but none of the hard stuff. Hereceived a degree in psychology from a mail-order company in Florida. Its just simply if your writing a book on the history of an organization and you are aware that someone filed multiple actions against it, and they tried to murder him for it, if you are a journalist you are going to interview that person. All he knew was that if someone stayed they didnt do drugs. they were supposed to be about love, while men were about war. Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. Matt C. Hoffman WebSynanon Industries. when the uniqueness of adolescent psychological development is not understood and incorporated into clinical practice. you might also want to watch Cal. "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. Even today, some ex Synanon members, including many who had claimed they were harmed and/or were critical upon leaving, have played an on-line version with each other that slowly brought them back into the fold, confessing what others want to hear and afraid to say what they dont. Sometimes I think women are more revenge orientated, but it probably still comes down to the individual. Died of dehydration. 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. by Barker had been arrested at age 16 for burglary and when he was 18 he was charged with assault and robbery, for which he joined the Army a few days later and then went AWOL. But that idea was bantered by law enforcement as because of the wire, and the wire logs, knowledge could be proven against all who stayed in support. 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. Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. I listened to countless game tapes. "Mary Karr likes to say, 'You have to write about difficult relationships with great love.' The same result was stated by Steve Simon in his Harvard dissertation only in much more elaborate detail. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. And we sort of took that on, and it's sad because it's not a real portrait of a man, it's a child's imagination of a man. When all the litigation finally ended, I had some regret that Synanon had been closed, wondering what it might have evolved into after Dederichs complete removal. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. Both boys had to navigate poverty and abuse, but Jollett's experience was vastly different from his brother's. 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. "At that age, my response was to become the super kid. ", Jollett continued to struggle with past traumas as a young teen and adult. 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. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience., *..*.*. : troubledteens. It was far from being just Synanon. We were mentally ill. Chuck Dederich would not only envy the Money Elan made, but the protection they got. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. Here we go!' "I make them.". Aftermaththe Synanon legacy Or a person could just stop. 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. 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. Commonly employed and widely admired in 12-step groups and treatment., The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it., Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It is also a story of the unconditional love between The reviewer for his section on synanons for prisoners is none other than Dr. Robert DuPont, the second White House Drug Czar and founding director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and who administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale. No doubt their belief in Synanon was so strong that they had a good influence on others, but unfortunately they were also subjected to the Synanon system which from the early days warned of the enemy at the door (which Dederich eventually confessed at deposition he made up to bond followers), and later declared that you could never go home or contact outsiders. I have it. 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. And in end, its Synanons holocaust that is its legacy, particularly since there were so many who predicted it as early as the 60s from nothing more than reading the books written about Synanon. We have multiple groups dedicated to ending the TTI (Troubled Teen Industry) as well, that work in conjunction with mine, this is how I discovered this story! 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. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. Dinosaur Survivors Leave a Reply Cancel reply. That's crazy,'" says Jollett, reflecting back on cult-members giving their children away at 6 months old. My discussion is on the known today dangers of a hatchery (abandonment syndrome) which Susan Richardson wrote about, the psychological affects of attack therapy which can cause psychological damage, including psychotic breaks (which happened at Synanon) and how everyone finally bought into the enemy at the door who were all prejudiced against them and finally reduced Synanon to a state of mind where propaganda ruled over truth, all the ideals were tossed out and a growing comparison to the Manson family was in place. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. In 1971, Dederich stated, as Ofshe noted: we want at the idea of graduate. This was a sop to social workers and professionals who wanted me to say that we were producing a graduate. I always wanted to say to them, A person with this fatal disease will have to live here all of his life. I know damn well if they got out of Synanon they are dead. 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. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. CED had similar protection but blew it when he started ordering attacks and got caught on his tapes. Naya Arbiter Phoenix House is one of the biggest TCs today. Early on they selected former Synanite David Deitch to run Daytop but later released him when they claimed he tried to set up a Communist-based political action committee of ex-drug addicts. I was also impressed by stories I was told about the early days and when the Synanon website first started it had lot of anger expressed towards Dederich. 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. But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. It quotes statements I did not make but Dederich did. still, we had not had a good Republican president since Eisenhower. I offered the information to Janzen and he didnt want it. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. All the civil rights marches, the anti-Vietnam protests, were uniting people of all races. The monster that now existed had to be stopped. S. B. Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. One cloneVision Questit has been written had 9 deaths; forced marches, black uniforms in triple-digit temperatures, harsh discipline and a daily diet limited to an apple, a carrot and a bowl of beans, all which were common to these orgs. Not only did the system drive people out, Dederich eventually admitted it was designed for that purpose. 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. 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. Worse, when others, like Dr. Casriel, who formed Daytop, decided to use the Synanon approach modified, they did not understand the effect of age and desire in the Synanon flashes of success and further the danger of its approach as described by Simon and Friedenberg. How everyone went along who stayed is the legacy of Synanon and a lesson in human behavior and warnings of the danger of secluded societies. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. I find I edit better after I posted and edited this one about 5 times so far. Synanon was the first therapeutic community devoted to the treatment of the drug addicted according to the Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol, which is edited by the first White House Drug Czar; Dr. Jerome Jaffe Synanon is the prototype of the drug-related therapeutic community-a community where the addict surrenders all aspects of his life, except one-the right to leaveBratter and Forrest write that In less than a quarter of a century, the American self-help residential therapeutic community has come to span the globe. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. after 911, the Dederich type remarks that Bush was making were scary and I felt that free-speech and this country was dissipating; people were afraid to say anything that could be interpreted as un-American. Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. This story But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. 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