Unfortunately, came the imitators who sold the idea it was rehabilitative and copied it leading to a much greater list of damaged individuals than Synanon could ever achieve. Or a person could just stop. Instead it is led to countless deaths, destruction of lives and still continues today. 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. 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. While I cop to an ego in this area, my comments to Janzen had nothing to do with it. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. Need your help! I am very grateful that you have included in writing your blog about Joe Riccis version or interpetation of Synanon. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. We were indoctrinated quickly thru fear, humiliation,and the constant threat of physical violence. I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. 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. 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. The entirety of my writings say the same thing. 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. Although Synanon was officially shut down in 1991, it had inspired followers to start similar groups that perpetuated Synanons worst principles. Maia wrote: No fewer than 50 programs can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an anti-drug cult called Synanon. Good luck. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. my last chapter in my book did just exactly what you asked which was put my what you call myscholarly talents on the American cult. In 1974, Congress opened an investigation into such behavior-modification programs, finding that The Seed had used methods similar to the highly refined brainwashing techniques employed by the North Koreans. Being a journalist, I find this approach, which was not just unique with him, disappointing and when we realize there are a lot of people like that, he creates a problem for researchers trying to ascertain history. In law, lawyers too much use the technique of attacking opposing counsel when they cannot attack the facts. None of us were hardcore drug addicts. Some children have been placed for nothing more than marijuana smoking, and some because the programs told the parents unless they gave them the younger kid they would expel the older sibling. We have a freedom of the press, and when it does its job, and people do theres, there is hope. But I also concluded that Synanon would always be dangerous because of the nature of the Synanon game. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. 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. WebNeed your help! Further it established shelter and group support could aid those truly wanting to stop. They must be lies because you cant live with any other thoughts. One either plays the game and is rewarded with privilege and favorable discharge, or one splits from the program. First, while our government says that all people are equal the fact is they are not born equal. 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 his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. 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. If you examine the full context, Janzen avoided anything that might lead him to information contrary to the views he wanted to present. In the early days of Synanon, the Some had warned of the potential dangers of using synanons (game) on adults. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. Further, Yablonsky married a Synanon woman and admitted he felt any attack on Synanon was an attack on her. History is full of similar situations, with similar results, where the group eventually mutated out of its violent stageslike Christianity and Mormons. It was far from being just Synanon. By 1976 the plan to transfer the money to the Dederich family was cemented and implanted. Prove that all the Synanon documents directing kidnappings, beatings and murder did not exist. But I DO know the culture of Synanon. 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. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. 9. He told me that he had interviewed Synanon people and examined the UCLA records. The belief that Synanon was a breakthrough, as stated, was mainly because of its public speaking bureau. 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. still, we had not had a good Republican president since Eisenhower. Society would have to catch up with Dederich on his ideas of dieting, exercise, and no smoking. "Sometimes I think about this book as this primal scream, this assertion: 'This happened. 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. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. Im rich. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. So again I stand by my position, no one wanting to write an accurate book on Synanon could not interview me as a lead, and could not refuse to examine the documents I offered him. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. You can also see a shorter version of my career on Wikipedia if you do not wish to buy the book. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. 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. 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. 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. This story That is just a fact. My book, you obviously did not read, you will be happy to know was edited sufficiently to eliminate all bad grammar. How old were you. But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. 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. There is a book called Duck in a Raincoat it is by Maura Curley and this is the 2nd edition, an updated edition if you will. Communist Russia was safer with freedom taken away. Now, if it is not very God damn profitable, I would go into another business. WebSynanon Survivors 136likes 149followers Posts About Photos Videos More Posts About Photos Videos Synanon Survivors Intro Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And As stated above, as Dederich believed this, his squeezes and toss outslike old timer Bill Crawford was willfully sentencing one to death for CEDs ego and financial gain. 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. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. 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. no Mr. Vandeman I am not deleting this as it is not as vulgar as the others. A few, but very few have gone out and made it. Sure it maybe closed but it still needs to be investigated in the same fashion that Penn state was investigated. But we are not Communist China, Communist Russia or Germanys Nazis. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. 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. It did make news. He also admitted violence could not occur without his approval but he forgot the details due to his stroke. Many who studied Synanon agreed. 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). is a different I further told him that UCLA records were selective and I alone had Synanons internal documents which tells another story. S. B. Its a real field day.. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. Fatherhood has made him more cognizant of how much trauma he experienced as a child, as it has for other former Synanon kids who have become parents. 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. The experiences with the original population of adult addicts still pervade the thinking and functioning of most T.C.s. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. In addition, group practice becomes an anti-therapeutic factor with the T.C. Now theres a little room for you now. Have a merry. in the understanding and treatment of adolescents. So I went through it again to tried to erase that ambiguity and I hope you are happier with it. For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. 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 loved us, he hugged us, he kissed us," says Jollett, who was prompted to write Hollywood Park after his father's death. *..*.*. The study of cults can teach us the problems of nations. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. "Then my dad became extremely interested in my life. I have the book and am reading it. As I said, for years I basically hung out with former members. Stop telling me this didn't happen, because this happened.'" We were beaten for the slightest infractions of the rules. 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. 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. 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. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. ", Jollett continued to struggle with past traumas as a young teen and adult. 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. ), "You put stress on a family, unpredictable things happen, and children tend to take on different roles," Jollett says. And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. 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. In 1980, the cult leader received widespread attention when he pleaded no contest to charges of assault and conspiracy to commit murder after he and two other Synanon members attempted to kill Paul Morantz, a lawyer who had successfully sued Synanon, by putting a four-and-a-half foot rattlesnake in his mailbox. Synanon was not unique. 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. It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. However, there is little evidence that harsh behavior-modification techniques can solve these problems. 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, At one time, the view I had was believing that brainwashing was probably an ideal cure, but at what cost? I wrote that cults are just microcosms of greater societies. As to the above, I remain impressed with your apparent life long research into many areas, and you write so much, it is hard to know where to begin. Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. Synanons advertising of its few success stories was so convincing that many professionals like New York psychiatrist Dan Casriel had become convinced of the Games efficacy. They didn't know," he says. **, 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. 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 a calculated risk. The Cedu Schools developed into an industry of sister schools, clones and copy-cats, that are now a multi-million dollar, international and unregulated business., *.*.. Similarly, there is no evidence that every substance abuser is such for life and can only avoid destruction through one of these programs. Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. Synanons most important legacy was to fulfill sociologist Edgar Freidenberg prediction after reading Yablonskys book that the organization was punitive, brainwashed and would ultimately create a dangerous state of mind. "Mary Karr likes to say, 'You have to write about difficult relationships with great love.' That for about a period of 7 years most of my friends were ex synanon members. It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. Sincerely Yablonsky in his 60s book, totally bought into the enemys conspiracy and that people were against Synanon because blacks lived with whites. 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. Ego had nothing to do with that comment. 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. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. WebSynanon Industries. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. Synanon and Enthusiastic Sobriety Enthusiastic Sobriety Abuse Alliance Synanon and Enthusiastic Sobriety A conversation with David Cherry. Elan was known of using such standards as haircut, pull- up, the game and humiliating signs; but added a boxing ring for resisters to be plummeted by bigger guys until a bloody confession was extracted, regardless of its truth. .relinquish all independence and subjugate themselves to these staff and senior residents, accepting humiliation and total control of their lives even to the extent of accepting complete direction of their sex lives. 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. In other words he would have to reexamine his beliefs and consider possibly his own victimization. . 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., *..**. 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. [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. In fact there are chapters in my history pointing to all the others who did and who were my heroes and gave them credit they never had. I did not delete Susans comment, they disappeared and then reappeared; have happy holidays. 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. And it was repeated in books by Yablonsky and Endore and unfortunately repeated a decade ago by Janzen. Any dammed fool who wants to come in and say Id like to live with you and we let them in. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. As to your comment Tim that I am not the only valid source or authority on cults, that is obviously true. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. 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. . Neither AA, Synanon, or those that followed, were based on any scientific studies. He wrote the failure of Yablonsky to see the horror of what he had written raised questions suggesting a lack of humanity in Yablonsky. They covered his mouth with a hand and forced him to inhale ammonia, which caused spasm of his vocal cords and prevented him from being able to inhale. According to Department of Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. Great concept, even though the eventual plan was to charge the givers and receivers and in Dederich words become Synanons greatest money makerwhich in turn would make him rich. The leader, Chuck Dederich, decided we wouldn't have parents, and then we just didn't.". *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. Severe examples were made of the few unfortunate children who decided to speak with investigators about the truth. Were they all out to get rich at the sadistic treatment of others, or was this end in part of natural consequence of using such a punitive system, as suggested by the Stanford experiment on role playing of prisoners and guards? That is not ego. Anyway good luck and I hope you found a practice you enjoy. I offered them to him but he declined. ), "[Tony] went to rehab at a young age, and I think it scared me," Jollett says. 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. 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. 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. And in the end, what I presented were facts, i.e., the actual statistics, what happened in the clones and the general consensus of experts that the Synanon system of brainwashing, punishments and humiliations is counterproductive and psychologically dangerous. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. Its wonderful. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. lawyer magazine paul Morantz on you tube. Today, troubled-teen programs use Synanon-like tactics, advertising themselves to parents as solutions for everything from poor study habits to substance misuse. And that was great. Further, I wrote that the study of cults is studying a microcosm of the greater society. The damage that has been done to many ,many children is unfathomable. 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