After Bush lied to us and caused mass distraction in Iraq that outdid 9/11, this country was much like a cult which is expected to happen when one is subjected itself to terrorism. Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? And it was repeated in books by Yablonsky and Endore and unfortunately repeated a decade ago by Janzen. What lies did we believe wholeheartedly?". 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. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. 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. According to Department of 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. And it will be edited further. The autopsy report stated that he died from a perforated ulcer, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. 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. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. Synanon was not unique. Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on the game. but if I missed something please tell me. I was forced to watch twenty men and women beat a 14 year old girl in what we called a, Cowboy Ass kicking, for ten to twenty minutes. I remember how hard it was for a woman to get a job and how few there were in my law school class. You would also have learned that I have been in the room with many Synanon people countless times. But nobody, especially Dr. Rogers, ever imagined children sitting in one continuous synanon 12 hours a day, 5 days a week for several yearswith 200 kids screaming and spitting at him, where the child could not verbally defend himself against his indicters, where he would be beaten and physically restrained, and, most importantly, where he could not leavenamely Straight, Inc. In other words Straight took a program that had been designed (and poorly so) to control hard-core adult heroin addicts and used it to control kids who had experimented with pot and alcoholsometimes worse, but sometimes no drugs at all. Spare the Rod Healing. Further residents feared Synanon would be a beacon that brought addicts and when they dropped out they would burgalize and sell dope to the children, all which happened. Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. He had beaten me time wise. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center I did not delete Susans comment, they disappeared and then reappeared; have happy holidays. And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. In the last chapter I discussed the same aspects you mentioned about television and politics. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. But he ruled them out as heretics, not ever once, as did Janzen, do, as Deep Throat suggested to the Watergate investigators: follow 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. ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. He wrote that many ex-members said that one day there would be a scandal and Dederich would run off with all the money. And when former clients sued Straight for holding them against their will, Straight pressured parents into letting Straight fight for them for the right to force their kids into treatment with the force of a court order. 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The experiences with the original population of adult addicts still pervade the thinking and functioning of most T.C.s. 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. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. 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. Some people, whether from genes or experiences, or combinations thereof, just are not capable of living a good life on their own. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. No one will be mad at you. Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. And he started saying, 'Don't be like me. He was constantly accused of being a malingerer and faking it when he complained of being sick and unable to go on. But it is a calculated risk we take. 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. 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. 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, per Wes Fager, who also noted Dr. Jerome Jaffe stated 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 leave. Fager further noted Bratter 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. As stated in the Skeptics Dictionary, law enforcement officials, politicians and religious leaders helped push those fearing addiction to what it determined was primarily rackets designed to make money with little regard for human well-being (like Elan and CeDu). one, it was a hard fought battle. 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. So, as stated, when Dederich also admitted his notions were intended on each occasion to drive people out, so only the fanatical remained, and he profited by the resulting lowering cost, he was in fact knowingly in his view sacrificing former addicts to untimely ends for profit. 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. 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. For readers, Hollywood Park is a powerful memoir about one man's journey after he escapes a violent cult as a child. : troubledteens. Thats why I wrote the history of Synanon because there is so much to learn. The story of Synanon is how one man took good people and turned them into terrorists. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. 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. Any dammed fool who wants to come in and say Id like to live with you and we let them in. Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. 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. And they didn't do that.". 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 . "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. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. Paul please post this comment and not the other two thank you sir. Aftermaththe Synanon legacy All he knew was that if someone stayed they didnt do drugs. when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. Per Dr. Robert J. Lifton, this is what one would expect from any totalitarianism environment after removal. He participated in several missions, and arguably would have lived a better life but for his exposure to Synanon. Mental health service. 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. Were you happy with the violence? 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. As a key distinction between comparing Synanon to America, those in Synanon who tried to warn or criticize were shut down and shoved out. 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. 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. 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. You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. 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