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. Did you change partners? By then only 1000 out of the 12,000 claimed to have entered were there and leaving was defined as failure. The damage that has been done to many ,many children is unfathomable. The real origins of the Cedu schools remained hidden from the students, their parents and much of the staff until years after their graduation or departure. WebSynanon was a religous community. Most program lingo IS Synanon lingo! *.*..*. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. A 15-year-old boy died from a staph infection at a Colorado wilderness program. . There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. Posted by 6 years ago. I am very aware of the early philosophies of Synanon. 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. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. 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. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. 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. I listened to countless game tapes. WebSynanon Industries. The Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place Nicholaus Contreraz, 16, died at the Arizona Boys Ranch near Oracle, Arizona, March 2, 1998, of cardiac arrest, after instructors continued to harass him and force him to exercise even though he told them he was sick. And yes, there is some bad grammar. 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. 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. Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. Phoenix House is one of the biggest TCs today. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. 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. 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. Eventually, the future could only be Orwellian. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. Maia wrote: No fewer than 50 programs can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an anti-drug cult called Synanon. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? 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 . ("There was no soft place to land, there was no one really caring about us," he explains. This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. Rose Lena Cole was court ordered to Syanon by a juvenile court judge in 1972 for running away from home. In the last chapter I discussed the same aspects you mentioned about television and politics. Simon had come to Synanon because his teacher, Abraham Maslow, the founder of the Humanistic Movement, of which Synanon was using its lingo, was predicting that Synanon would transform psychotherapy. 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. Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. Ex-members have no idea how close they all came to being arrested for conspiracy of RICO violations. Synanon can make its recommendation not to connect, even expel and announce it will not accept the person back; but there is no right to stop contact by never informing the person of attempts being made and giving the person the choice. 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.". How all of this occurred is set forth in the first book So Fair a House by Dr. Casriel. Need your help! His family claims his pleas for help were ignored. Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. I have countless books of interviews and depositions. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. 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. 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. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. 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. in the understanding and treatment of adolescents. 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. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. In my book Synanon was only one chapter. they were supposed to be about love, while men were about war. Founded in 1958, Synanon sold itself as a cure for hardcore heroin addicts who could help each other by breaking new initiates with isolation, humiliation, hard labor, and sleep deprivation. In reality, who was cured depended on how much each wanted it; and that generally holds true in all programs. 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. 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. It quotes statements I did not make but Dederich did. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. 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. by You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. Sure it maybe closed but it still needs to be investigated in the same fashion that Penn state was investigated. And I still do. 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. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. Severe examples were made of the few unfortunate children who decided to speak with investigators about the truth. As a key distinction between comparing Synanon to America, those in Synanon who tried to warn or criticize were shut down and shoved out. 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. "At that age, my response was to become the super kid. When she finally was rescued by a grandmother, the organization was fortunately wiped out by the resulting civil judgment for damages. This intrusive, assertive therapeutic style works well for a few clients but may injure many more. Professor Bellis noted that, A number of clients. And they didn't do that.". When I asked if he had studied brainwashing he said he had not. Yet by the time Synanon shut down in 1991, its model had already been widely copied. In one of his many papers on Synanon, Ofshe noted that it is doubtful that all the therapeutic communities that cloned themselves after Synanon would have done so if they heard Mr. Dederich testify as he did in 1979: its always a mistake to let anyone into Synanon. After saying staying in Synanon is the addicts only chance for sustained life, in 1976 Dederich said that in 5 years there would be no room for the kind of people you are now. 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. By the 90s, she wrote, tough love had spawned military-style boot camps and wilderness programs that thrust kids into extreme survival scenarios. 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. Some had warned of the potential dangers of using synanons (game) on adults. Childrens deaths in tough love boot camps include: Michelle Sutton, 15, Summit Quest, Utah, 1990. 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. Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. Suggest you get my book on Amazonmy life was not limited to Synanon. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. Straight used Synanons vaginal and anal searches to search for contraband for years even though they never found any. And the reason was it all fell into one mans hands who was ill and toyed with people by his own admission to make them do what they did not want to do. 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. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? Good luck. A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. 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. "Then my dad became extremely interested in my life. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. God bless you. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. In conclusion, while the notions in Synanon arose out of Dederichs troubled childhood, I dont think all blame is on Synanonsuch systems existed all throughout history. 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. 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. ", Jollett continued to struggle with past traumas as a young teen and adult. I don't know. 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. The autopsy report stated that he died from a perforated ulcer, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. They appreciated the honesty of the work. Sincerely For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Comments here are for input, questions, and providing of facts. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. [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. I wrote that cults are just microcosms of greater societies. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. Oaks and Spokes. Ramirez set up the synanon-based Phoenix House which hired former Synanite Ted Dibble to manage one of its centers. While it is not unusual for one party not to want the other party to the successful (and government suffers from the two-party system) it did seem that Bible Belt Republicans really were really upset by the idea that a black man was president; and we suffered for it because any plan, reasonable or not, was to be made sure it could not succeed. 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. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. He became the one to blame, he was the angry one. Hopefully somedaywe get back the candidates like that; but Im not smart enough to suggest how. *..*.*. 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. But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. And, as stated, many of those who left were purposely ejected or forced out by Dederich squeezes. Indeed, that same year Dederich, in his The Wrath of God speech accused addicts of stabbing him in the back by failing to negotiate an apartment complex purchase, and threatened to get rid of all of them and replace them with squares. He spent 15 years When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. 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 But, in the late '70s, the California-based organization became synonymous with violence. 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. It's not good.' You wont be here. Dr. Casriel in 1963 reported that of 62 people located of 160 entries, 19 were graduates, while 43 remained inside Synanon. As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. 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. Im so grateful, thankful & PROUD of everyone who made this happen!!! Fager wrote: Dr. Elan generated very large tax revenues for the state of Maine. Today, there are statistics saying women have surpassed men as earners, all of this is good. They must be lies because you cant live with any other thoughts. I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. 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. Eventually in a 1978 tape recording called The Freebees are over Dederich set forth the plan to establish a private corporation, Home Place, Inc. in Arizona which would charge Synanon for rotating people to the new compound to be educated by Dederich and that Synanon would pay the corporation for this, which then would pay salaries to Dederich and his cronies, of which they would pay taxes. I would say some things are not debatable. 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.. And I really try to do that," Jollett says. Please buy the book. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. 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. It gives an unvarnished accounting of the psychopath Joe Ricci who founded the Elan Corporation. Anyway good luck and I hope you found a practice you enjoy. And he started saying, 'Don't be like me. 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. 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. Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. It was like, 'Nothing ever gets to me. But I have certainly seen where the situation is clearly reversed. I look forward to comments, but those based upon facts, not attacks on the messenger. 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. This story .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. 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 is also a story of the unconditional love between 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. If CED had that kind of protection, he would have died a king.. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. Bringing Luis Home September 26, 2022 10. Poor and, at one point, subsisting mostly off of rabbits they raised and butchered in their backyard, Jollett was unable to process the trauma he'd experienced, according to the book. He had the addicts psychologically tested and found Synanon did not change people internallythat they were still antisocial. *..**. But Farve had the money so he could be self indulgent. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. 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., *..*.*. Its a calculated risk. He also admitted violence could not occur without his approval but he forgot the details due to his stroke. (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. 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. . 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. After all why should they not get paid for all that work? Congratulations. Some people, whether from genes or experiences, or combinations thereof, just are not capable of living a good life on their own. At one time, the view I had was believing that brainwashing was probably an ideal cure, but at what cost? 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. To me there is good reason why Elan was not on the the map. The musician was careful in his portrayal of his mother, whom he feared would come across as a one-dimensional villain. "I make them.". And back is my reply to you. 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. Researched by Maia Szalavitz for a book in 2006 and for Mother Jones in 2007 she described the clone horrors and traced them back to Synanon. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. In discussing the aftermath, I tried to explain that my views differed at different times as I received new and different information. Synanon just wasnt that big enough to be an influence. No one will be mad at you. "Sometimes I think about this book as this primal scream, this assertion: 'This happened. We were beaten for the slightest infractions of the rules. I find I edit better after I posted and edited this one about 5 times so far. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. WebSynanon Survivors is celebrating 4 years!!! NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Its wonderful. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. Naya Arbiter Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. He was constantly accused of being a malingerer and faking it when he complained of being sick and unable to go on. Podcast. 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. Justice For Our Angels. 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