Yet by the time Synanon shut down in 1991, its model had already been widely copied. He wrote that, High discipline programs usually employ the confrontive Synanon game-a leaderless group encounter session to create aggressive and provocative interchange, using ridicule, cross examination and hostile attack. ), "You put stress on a family, unpredictable things happen, and children tend to take on different roles," Jollett says. Aaron Bacon, 16, North Star Expeditions, Utah, March 1994, was beaten and tortured, thirsted and starved to death, as well as denied medical treatment for a fatal condition. 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. 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. 9. 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. I remember you saying that you had not heard of Elan, yet you were aware of there being many Synanon spin off treatment centers. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. Because he had lived for so long surrounded by yes people, he had no understanding how others would see his actions and thus was very open in admitting what he did, including that violence could not happen unless he approved it. Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. I delete only the crazies refuse to present any argument, rebuttal facts or evidence that anything stated was not true; but just a statement that anyone who would think that or write such facts belongs in a nut house. As I wrote the youth did not buy in as did the parents, you sound like one of them. 65-pound Michael Wiltsie, 12, at Camp E-Kel-Etu, a private Florida facility, in 2000 was suffocated to death by a 320-pound counselor who sat on him until he stopped breathing. 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. 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. Further, it is foolish to treat all persons in the same manner. 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. Vision Quests leader was convicted of smuggling cocaine. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. Although I think this is waning some now Movies now are once again about heroes and less about femme fatales. We were indoctrinated quickly thru fear, humiliation,and the constant threat of physical violence. Im rich. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. WebNeed your help! *..**. I would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. If CED had that kind of protection, he would have died a king.. Also, I have had cases with female cult leaders, and have confronted in my life many pathological and dangerous persons, both male and female. Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. 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. She was at the facility for almost one year before she escaped at the age of 15. And I really try to do that," Jollett says. 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? I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. Sincerely I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. It was far from being just Synanon. Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. All he knew was that if someone stayed they didnt do drugs. ), "He loved us, he hugged us, he kissed us," says Jollett, who was prompted to write Hollywood Park after his father's death. Dederich said those who left fell through the open manhole and would post descriptions of their calamities for all to see as a warning if they ever left. 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. Rogers had been referring to the dangers involved with a kid participating in a typical Synanon Game with 11 people yelling at him, where he could fight back verbally, where he could leave if he chose, and where there was no physical violence. Since I alone have the records (UCLA has only what Synanon chose to give it) I felt obligated. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. As I said, for years I basically hung out with former members. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. 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. Now theres a little room for you now. Today, there are statistics saying women have surpassed men as earners, all of this is good. 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. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. They must be lies because you cant live with any other thoughts. 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. While Synanons bragging of curing drug addiction was far off from reality, its public relations system did promote the concept that drug addiction was not impossible to overcome as many had thought when Synanon was conceived. The story of Synanon is how one man took good people and turned them into terrorists. 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 Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. The main reason in stopping in 2000 was a telephone call from Rod Janzen asking to confirm the date I was bit by the Snake. This is not a criticism of that policy; but just the fact that it was insignificant in relation to the civil rights movement which was raging in the 60s and pushed by the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, and many black actors and athletes and my generation that marched and died in name of civil rights. The group ultimately became a cult called the Church of Synanon in the 1970s. Synanon disbanded in 1991 [6] due to members being convicted of criminal activities (including attempted murder) and retroactive loss of its tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) due to financial misdeeds, destruction of evidence, and terrorism. [7] There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. (16) In 1985 psychotherapists Thomas Bratter and Gary Forrest echoed the conclusion of Rachman and Heller and added a caution of their own when they wrote that such a treatment [for self-destructive drug abusers] may not be necessary or appropriate for other treatment populations, i.e. He was a great man and kind human being. And yes, there is some bad grammar. 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. Anyway good luck and I hope you found a practice you enjoy. 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. 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. Pierce (1977) Originally a nonviolent group, Diedrich created the Imperial Marines to maintain orderwithin and outside of the community. But I, its a marvelous business to watch these assholes come in and fall all over themselves and try bite me in the ass. Not only did the system drive people out, Dederich eventually admitted it was designed for that purpose. Still, to glorify Synanon, as some do, like Yablonsky, Janzen, is to show a lack of humanity and spit in the face of the vast amount of victims of violence in Synanons own holocaust. They didn't know," he says. And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. Some of these programs were in the wilderness, some were high in the Mountains, or in deserts, or per parents trading children and keeping them in locked rooms when they were not in camps many of which were like old time chain gangs this saving cost of shelter and food. But there wont be any room for the kind of people you are now. Yet it was from this that the miracle was proclaimed. Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on the game. Totalitarianism societies in the end always end in abuse and a we vs. they war concept. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. 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. Charles was arrested while drunk in 1978 and was barred from any further leadership within the 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. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center How old were you. In 1964 a New Jersey Drug Study Commission opted not to give Synanon any funding after reviewing rehabilitation statistics supplied by Synanon Foundation. And they didn't do that.". It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. 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. 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. The Cedu schools (one in California, and one in Idaho) were each located in a mountain wilderness, and students soon discovered that they were teenage captives, without identification or money, in an imposing geography they could not easily or safely negotiate or escape. I asked him how he could write a book on Synanon without ever interviewing the person who fought it. in the understanding and treatment of adolescents. But I also concluded that Synanon would always be dangerous because of the nature of the Synanon game. Do you realize that over 80 people were attacked? 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. And the grant had been administered by the founding director of NIDA who also happened to be the second White House Drug Czar-Robert DuPont. As for women, I cant purport to be an expert, but having lived through the 60s Revolution and womens rights I do have my observations. Need your help! I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? Studies found that Synanons encounter groups could produce lasting psychological harm and that only 10 to 15 percent of the addicts who participated in them recovered. 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. Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. I had never been arrested nor done drugs. 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. "I can't tell you how many times a day I pick up my kid. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . 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). Thats the nature of our business. Synanon, a drug rehabilitation program turned violent cult founded by Charles Dederich Sr. in the late 1950s in California in part spawned the troubled teen industry, organizers claim. when the uniqueness of adolescent psychological development is not understood and incorporated into clinical practice. 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? The belief that Synanon was a breakthrough, as stated, was mainly because of its public speaking bureau. That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. ***. Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. The musician was careful in his portrayal of his mother, whom he feared would come across as a one-dimensional villain. Today there is argument, but generally it only comes from true believers like Janzen or long time residents who once condemned Synanon, , but now in their old age, as is generally the final stage for victims of brainwashing, per Dr. Lifton, rewrite their memories so each night they are at peace with what they took part in, including, if not outright participating, knowing of the Imperial Marines and all the beatings. It gives an unvarnished accounting of the psychopath Joe Ricci who founded the Elan Corporation. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. And thats it for the idea that Synanon played a role in curing drug addiction. 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. Many programs report a high dropout rate with younger adolescents, which is directly related to this factor. 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. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. And I still do. also, to write a good book, you have to think that is what you are doing or it will not be a good book. This story So I asked him how he could then discount it and he responded because if it existed, he would have to consider it occurring in religions (he is a Christian and lover of utopian communities) and other groups. Phoenix House is one of the biggest TCs today. Some people, whether from genes or experiences, or combinations thereof, just are not capable of living a good life on their own. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. What lies did we believe wholeheartedly?". when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. If you have a complaint it is with Yablonsky and Janzen who had no understanding of the Synanon system. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. Below is a chart made by Maia in Mother Jones: A. Orange on his website lists interesting quotes: Tough Love: Abuse of a type particularly gratifying to the abuser, in that it combines the pleasures of sadism with those of self-righteousness. I don't know. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. I'll see you in a few weeks for three hours,' Or in some cases, 'I'll see you in six months,' in some cases, five years. 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. You can also see a shorter version of my career on Wikipedia if you do not wish to buy the book. I am very aware of the early philosophies of Synanon. Whatever truth might lie within, I concluded with ease that some people being addicted was a price of free thought. Yet by 1968, to justify ending graduation, if Dederich was correct, there was little success in curing addicts. The Old Man would testify that he never gave a splitee a single thought from the moment each left. This intrusive, assertive therapeutic style works well for a few clients but may injure many more. Professor Bellis noted that, A number of clients. Thats why I wrote the history of Synanon because there is so much to learn. My disappointment, as stated in my book, is that after all this great work, led by the entertainment field it regressed, with HBO and Showtime saying the best job you could get if you were a woman was to strip or manipulate a millionaire to marry you. So lets say you wanted to give the Third Reich some credit, which could be done, what positives can you say about Synanon? Eventually Dr. DuPont left government service and became a paid consultant for Straight, which had replaced The Seed after the US Senate likened its methods to North Korean brainwashing. ", It wasn't until the boys moved in with their father a tall, Italian man who awed them with stories about once hiding a shotgun under his trench coat that the once-distant dad became more than just a mythological figure. The bad publicity led some supporters, Melvin and Betty Sembler of The Seed to create a copycat organization under a different name Straight Inc.but employed Du Point as a consultant. "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. Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. Kids were assaulted and restrained without cause and all the rest. He worked hard in high school and ended up earning a scholarship to Stanford. 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. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. And finally, in the end, Synanon legacy is one not only of discrimination, but it became the Ku Klux Klan when it came to its conceived enemies. 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 were beaten for the slightest infractions of the rules. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. 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. It is also a story of the unconditional love between TimI didnt say I was the only one to fight Synanon. 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. And I think he saw I might be going down that path, too. ", After reconnecting with his father, Jollett who didn't understand what a "mother" and "father" were while living in Synanon finally had a loving, real-life dad and mom. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. Oaks and Spokes. : troubledteens. 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. What is mysterious about this? 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. Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And Future Photo Library 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. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. His motive, which Janzen missed, was the eventual plan to steal all the money. I further told him that UCLA records were selective and I alone had Synanons internal documents which tells another story. And with that all being announced on the wire, murder attempts begin. That is just a fact. Looking back, I think my brother was appropriately angry with the adults.". And in March she went, flying into Georgetown with her family, a few friends, and Jordan 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. In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia awarded Fred Collins, Jr. $220,000 for being falsely imprisoned at Straight.Inc. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. see review. What you write is not experience of all. Rather, the organizations said they worked, so people believed it. And while it may be true that economics was a motivation, economics are part of the motivation for everyone on these issues. WebSynanon was a religous community. A 15-year-old boy died from a staph infection at a Colorado wilderness program. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. I informed him that some of the people he interviewed were in fact the ones who participated most in the violence and that he had been lied to. I offered them to him but he declined. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. . You might call that egotistical, but I felt I had that knowledge because I had engaged so many. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. It was also capable of controling the floor show when ever there was an investigation, during these times Elan became a large weird hotel lobby, albeit briefly, while investigators simply saw our blank faces. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. Childrens deaths in tough love boot camps include: Michelle Sutton, 15, Summit Quest, Utah, 1990. NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. .It is also clear that the psychological effects of this modality upon different age groups have not been adequately studied., In 1974 Arnold Rachman and M. Heller warned about using the Game with kids when they wrote: There is a serious shortcoming within the theory and the practice of the T.C. 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 . 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. And it will be edited further. They appreciated the honesty of the work. WebI run the Synanon Survivors Facebook group and wed love to have to as a member!! Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. Survivors of Residential Treatment Centers (RTC) WWASP Fighters. Podcast. Its a calculated risk. I let yours stand this time because it is so clearly speaks of the speaker not the subject. 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. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. Died of dehydration. as to George Bush, again in my book I said there was no difference between him psychologically and Osama. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. Maia wrote: No fewer than 50 programs can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an anti-drug cult called Synanon. 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