(He is now sober. In 1966 New York City Mayor John Lindsay hired Puerto Rican psychiatrist Efren Esteban Ramirez to run the citys Addiction Services Agency. "You just love them up, just squeeze them and kiss them and tell them how much you love them, and think about their needs, and have empathy for them," he says. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. 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 This is not limited to addicts. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. 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 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. Also true, is that my ego places me in my eyes in a higher position than others. It is also a story of the unconditional love between a ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. Yet by the time Synanon shut down in 1991, its model had already been widely copied. "I can't tell you how many times a day I pick up my kid. "'Ha, ha! He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. In my book Synanon was only one chapter. Congratulations. 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. 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. And he started saying, 'Don't be like me. Simon did not follow his own warnings, and after being destroyed in a Synanon game, and then befriended by Dederich, never left, became the keeper of the flame and ultimately went to prison for participation in a scheme to destroy evidence concerning Synanons violent conspiracy. 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. Synanon just gave it a giant shove through its PR machine which unfortunately attracted sociopaths wanting an easy road to riches and unfortunately led many governmental agencies and politicians to back their concepts. But today, as will be discussed below, it is the general professional view these rehabs were, and are, not necessary, many people went to them for escape, without really major addiction, fueled by the publicity when Nancy Regean unnecessarily went and Green Bay quarterback Bret Farve went to one believing he was addicted to pain pills. I suppose if they werent why Id have to find another business. Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. Once the population bought that, Dederich had complete power by threat of expulsion which he continually exercised out right or by squeezes.. it would take a few generations for this to work out. 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. Died of dehydration. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. Sells noted in 1976 that, The more strict the program the lower the percentage of clients retained in the [TC] program..Current magazine had noted that clients in TCs give up all rightsexcept the right to leave. Books have steadily been written stating the same, perhaps the best was Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids by Ms. Maia Szalavitz. 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. As a key distinction between comparing Synanon to America, those in Synanon who tried to warn or criticize were shut down and shoved out. 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. Let alone, 'Okay, here you go stranger I've never met, take care of my kid. If you have a complaint it is with Yablonsky and Janzen who had no understanding of the Synanon system. It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. Pierce (1977) 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. This story If you look at your post, you will see you bring up matters which were brought up in the entirety of my text and there is little difference. 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. *..**. Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. "Mary Karr likes to say, 'You have to write about difficult relationships with great love.' Need your help! Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. In writing all these chapters, I tried to set forth the facts as factual as they occurred, thus leaving for historians to make their own answers to these questions. Kids were assaulted and restrained without cause and all the rest. And back is my reply to you. 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. WebI run the Synanon Survivors Facebook group and wed love to have to as a member!! 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. 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. But we are not Communist China, Communist Russia or Germanys Nazis. But I also concluded that Synanon would always be dangerous because of the nature of the Synanon game. 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. I welcome anyones story, questions or facts; the only thing I delete is attacking the messenger; attack facts if you can but I am not going to have gaming on here, get the speaker when you cannot challenge the info. In Is This A Camp Or Jail? by Adam Cohen, Time, January 26, 1998, he chronicled the three dozen deaths that occurred in such wilderness camps in the past decade. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. It does appear prior post returned and I did respond to you at length. WebSynanon Industries. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. S. B. But it is a calculated risk we take. standing in line at a supermarketI get it reading the rags past the time. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. Both are real experiences, but which is more important to learn from. one, it was a hard fought battle. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. The problem is, however, is how to ensure they are taken advantage of. 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. Hopefully somedaywe get back the candidates like that; but Im not smart enough to suggest how. He had the addicts psychologically tested and found Synanon did not change people internallythat they were still antisocial. A. Confidential. Ordered by the court out of Synanon, he returned to a life of crime and was murdered. The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. Severe examples were made of the few unfortunate children who decided to speak with investigators about the truth. Posted by 6 years ago. [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.. This was Synanon had its worse, andit is not permitted here. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. This was written before he joined. Rose Lena Cole was court ordered to Syanon by a juvenile court judge in 1972 for running away from home. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Since I had as friends, people like Bernie Kolb and Ben Parks, who went from long-term addictions to long time great human beings, I concluded something there must have worked. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. just state that and agree to the group rules!! What lies did we believe wholeheartedly?". As I said, for years I basically hung out with former members. Both boys had to navigate poverty and abuse, but Jollett's experience was vastly different from his brother's. 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. Matt C. Hoffman Straight used Synanons vaginal and anal searches to search for contraband for years even though they never found any. you might also want to watch Cal. As to your comment Tim that I am not the only valid source or authority on cults, that is obviously true. If you examine the full context, Janzen avoided anything that might lead him to information contrary to the views he wanted to present. Sincerely He also admitted violence could not occur without his approval but he forgot the details due to his stroke. They didn't know," he says. Zones are designed to separate business from residential, etc. And with that all being announced on the wire, murder attempts begin. There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. they were supposed to be about love, while men were about war. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. Sometimes I think women are more revenge orientated, but it probably still comes down to the individual. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. And that you should try to see people the way God sees them. Most program lingo IS Synanon lingo! 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At the heart of the Cedu program was a philosophy that had grown out of various self-help movements of the 1960s and 70s, such as Lifespring, Werner Erhards EST, and most directly, from Charles E. Dederichs Synanon cult, church, and street-level heroin-cure program. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. Children say they were punched, kicked and forced to eat dirt for minor infractions such as failing to stand up straight. I'm not doing that. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. The effects of this type of interaction upon a fragile self-image and upon later impulse control in the world at large have not been determined. Order from Amazon, XHTML: You can use these tags:
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