. Hopefully somedaywe get back the candidates like that; but Im not smart enough to suggest how. Many programs report a high dropout rate with younger adolescents, which is directly related to this factor. The reviewer for his section on synanons for prisoners is none other than Dr. Robert DuPont, the second White House Drug Czar and founding director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and who administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale. Mental health service. Spare the Rod Healing. 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. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. (c) Nov. 2012. Synanon was not unique. 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. Ofshe further pointed out Dr. Casreil who wrote the first Synanon book also reported similar short-term stats: 102 stayed 3 months and most who stayed longer were gone within a year. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. Podcast. But there wont be any room for the kind of people you are now. We let, we let crazy people into the door and we dont discriminate. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. 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. That's our job, to love this [child] fiercely and protect it. But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. ("There was no soft place to land, there was no one really caring about us," he explains. It a very sick place for teen agers,and during my time we were mixed in with adults. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. That is just a fact. I am very grateful that you have included in writing your blog about Joe Riccis version or interpetation of Synanon. And I really try to do that," Jollett says. The problem of these programs was it was believed it was justified to use any means, denying human and civil rights and treating people who didnt need treatment; all this done without any proof that behavior modification programs ever worked. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. Here we go!' It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. Yet at the same time, the noise Synanon made did wake up people to the idea, not yet existing, that cure was possible. As I said, for years I basically hung out with former members. Real crazy people. And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. We were mentally ill. Chuck Dederich would not only envy the Money Elan made, but the protection they got. lawyer magazine paul Morantz on you tube. But I DO know the culture of Synanon. Synanon Survivors. 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. He had beaten me time wise. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. Synanon was discredited in the late 1970s and 1980s as its violent record was exposed. I'm going to rise up above all this kind of stuff, and I'm going to take care of everyone. It did make news. 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. Its a calculated risk. He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. Rose Lena Cole was court ordered to Syanon by a juvenile court judge in 1972 for running away from home. I suppose if they werent why Id have to find another business. 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. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. But it is a calculated risk we take. 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. None of us were hardcore drug addicts. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? 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. He wrote that the Synanon experience in playing the game, peers caring for peers without doctors, created a cure for drug addiction. I have the book and am reading it. Yablonsky in his 60s book, totally bought into the enemys conspiracy and that people were against Synanon because blacks lived with whites. Hitler did great things for Germany, but it would be wrong to use them to assert we should all think of it as Spring Time for Hitler, as Janzen did of Dederich. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. First, Susan, good to hear from you again. 5 years from now we wont need people like you.. 9. This program was called MATRIX. 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. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. What is this thing that you think you're doing? Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. 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.. Dederich in the early days would not release statistics claiming that a dope fiend would identify with whatever percentage failed and therefore would not come; finally declaring in 1967 it was such a failure that no one should ever leave. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. The media pointed to me, but there were far many who had joined and fought to protect me as well as expose Synanon. Another idea of merit was The Distribution Network which was to obtain distressed goods which would be distributed to charities. A Violent, Deadly Cult With Forced Abortions and Shades of Scientology FOLLOW THE LEADER San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images standing in line at a supermarketI get it reading the rags past the time. Stop telling me this didn't happen, because this happened.'" He had the addicts psychologically tested and found Synanon did not change people internallythat they were still antisocial. But they have settled now, particularly, as stated below, as I slowly learned the results of so many of the Synanon clones, which resulted in so much death and brutality. There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. I am a Synanon survivor. Dr. Roger Meyer, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University, and formerly the Acting Chief of the Center for Studies of Narcotics and Drug Abuse at NIMH, was one of the first to question the wisdom of subjecting kids to the brutality of the Synanon Game. Whether a small town, island or, commune, they have a better chance for a part of the American dream than if on their own in the big city. He became the one to blame, he was the angry one. I listened to countless game tapes. 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. Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. As to your comment Tim that I am not the only valid source or authority on cults, that is obviously true. Oaks and Spokes. Here we are not talking about riding horses, discussing the nature of man, or Emerson, but a reign of terror that was destined and predicted by many in the early 60s due to the Synanon methods of attack therapy, forced confessions, rewards and punishments and brainwashing about enemies. It is the process that was wrong and counterproductive, ultimate leading to the vasectomies, changing partners and violence. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. ), "You put stress on a family, unpredictable things happen, and children tend to take on different roles," Jollett says. That's crazy,'" says Jollett, reflecting back on cult-members giving their children away at 6 months old. In reality, who was cured depended on how much each wanted it; and that generally holds true in all programs. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. it would take a few generations for this to work out. 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. Eventually, on the subject of rehabilitation, Ofshe would write, Synanon was the failure thats gave birth to an industry.. "I became very interested in the idea of buried history, all the ways that we as children were told things that were patently untrue, and that we believed them," says Jollett, whose book will publish on May 26, just after the same-titled album. by 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. Many are dead, many are in prison ,and worse many roam the earth as emotional cripples from just having come in contact with Joe Ricci,and his henchmen that helped him run the Elan Corporation. Both boys had to navigate poverty and abuse, but Jollett's experience was vastly different from his brother's. (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. 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. 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 they didn't do that.". You would know that in general I have a higher regard for Synanon people than the public at large. In addition, group practice becomes an anti-therapeutic factor with the T.C. I would say some things are not debatable. 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. 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. I'm not doing that. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. 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. 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. But Farve had the money so he could be self indulgent. It is also a story of the unconditional love between In my book Synanon was only one chapter. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. *.*..*. Do you realize that over 80 people were attacked? Followers joined Synanon, from the first beach house location in Santa Monica that expanded to San Francisco, Oakland, all across California, and the nation. Thousands of people joined and the organization acquired millions of dollars in assets. 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. The belief that Synanon was a breakthrough, as stated, was mainly because of its public speaking bureau. 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. I did not delete Susans comment, they disappeared and then reappeared; have happy holidays. 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. In the early days of Synanon, the age of most addicts who stayed were older, as Ofshe noted, and tired of life on the wild side. 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. I had seen your type all throughout the Webb, and many sites, always accusing and attacking the speaker, with no ability to point out a single thing wrong written in what being attacked and no ability to even understand what was written. Once the population bought that, Dederich had complete power by threat of expulsion which he continually exercised out right or by squeezes.. 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. Nonprofit Organization. . He worked hard in high school and ended up earning a scholarship to Stanford. 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. 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. Died of dehydration. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. In 1966 New York City Mayor John Lindsay hired Puerto Rican psychiatrist Efren Esteban Ramirez to run the citys Addiction Services Agency. Sometimes I think women are more revenge orientated, but it probably still comes down to the individual. 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. 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. 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. But it is mans nature to flock together and unfortunately war with each other. And that number was highly inflated by injection of squares and children born to addicts and squares alike. But that idea was bantered by law enforcement as because of the wire, and the wire logs, knowledge could be proven against all who stayed in support. in the understanding and treatment of adolescents. 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. ), "[Tony] went to rehab at a young age, and I think it scared me," Jollett says. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. they were supposed to be about love, while men were about war. 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. Whatever value Synanon might have had, I believed then, it had been long-lost. 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 Maia wrote: No fewer than 50 programs can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an anti-drug cult called Synanon. ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. From Musicos past, one can infer antisocial makeup, but when he came to Synanon he was able to function and had acceptance, something he probably could not otherwise obtain. 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. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. Synanon Industries August 23, 2022 2. So in that sense, Synanon contributed to the idea that one could get off addiction. Although Synanon was officially shut down in 1991, it had inspired followers to start similar groups that perpetuated Synanons worst principles. 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. This intrusive, assertive therapeutic style works well for a few clients but may injure many more. Professor Bellis noted that, A number of clients. The leader, Chuck Dederich, decided we wouldn't have parents, and then we just didn't.". Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. AA, as Synanon did, says one must participate in AA for life and have a religious belief in AA 12 steps. 1 talking about this. Maybe it's the leader's fault. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. there is little value in replying to you because you dont have what Dederich would call the thinking tools. You say there are lies But you dont list them. ", 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. I just imagined Charles Dederich rolling over in his grave at that news. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. You dont present any facts that they are lies because you have none. Some children were taken to foreign countries, or islands, although foreign countries have done more to stop them than our government. 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. Synanon and Enthusiastic Sobriety Enthusiastic Sobriety Abuse Alliance Synanon and Enthusiastic Sobriety A conversation with David Cherry. And while in 1978, he noted, Synanon publicity reported 20,000 people had gone through its doors, they were exiting at even a higher speed. 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. 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. 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. 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. He wrote that many ex-members said that one day there would be a scandal and Dederich would run off with all the money. That is why the health department took action in 1977. The autopsy report stated that he died from a perforated ulcer, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. And that you should try to see people the way God sees them. Worse, they continue today despite strong efforts to expose them. And it will be edited further. One either plays the game and is rewarded with privilege and favorable discharge, or one splits from the program. 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. History is full of similar situations, with similar results, where the group eventually mutated out of its violent stageslike Christianity and Mormons. Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. 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. 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. Let alone, 'Okay, here you go stranger I've never met, take care of my kid. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. 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. Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. For author Mikel Jollett, the frontman for the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event, his book is a "primal scream.". It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. 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. Did you change partners? And I think he saw I might be going down that path, too. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. But instead he made lab rats out of people. Copyright Paul Morantz. There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. Now theres a little room for you now. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. 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 would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. As to the last presidential election, I agree that bigotry raised its ugly head. Anyway, you should learn about ones actual career before you make assumptions about it. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. We're going to pillage the town! The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. Synanon is only one chapter. 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. *..**. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. 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. 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. This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. 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. 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. Tony, always angry as a child, sank into addiction at an early age and went to rehab. WebNeed your help! 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. Unfortunately as I learned what happened in clones and wilderness programs, people not only did not learn from that history, a book like Janzens can help fuel the continuation of its tragedies. While a credit to Dederichs foresight, it also unfortunately was a feature of his harmful megalomania. They must be lies because you cant live with any other thoughts. I don't know. Synanon did not even keep it from the public. Per Dr. Robert J. Lifton, this is what one would expect from any totalitarianism environment after removal. when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. Many who studied Synanon agreed. 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. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. For Jollett, experiencing his dad's love was a life-changing experience. I have countless books of interviews and depositions. Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. In law, lawyers too much use the technique of attacking opposing counsel when they cannot attack the facts. 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