A few, but very few have gone out and made it. 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. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. 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. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. In 1964 a New Jersey Drug Study Commission opted not to give Synanon any funding after reviewing rehabilitation statistics supplied by Synanon Foundation. A belief system based upon coercive persuasion is expected by all who have studied it to be largely abandoned when the pressures are removed. First, Susan, good to hear from you again. you say the logic is faulty, but give no example and state why? But it is a calculated risk we take. WebI run the Synanon Survivors Facebook group and wed love to have to as a member!! Also true, is that my ego places me in my eyes in a higher position than others. Please buy the book. 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. Most program lingo IS Synanon lingo! 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. 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. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. Jollett, 45, tells PEOPLE about the abuse he and many other children experienced while growing up in the "school" of the infamous Synanon cult. 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. His family claims his pleas for help were ignored. Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters. [31] NBC continued with a series of reports on the Synanon situation on the NBC Nightly News. I have it. Eventually, on the subject of rehabilitation, Ofshe would write, Synanon was the failure thats gave birth to an industry.. I am a Synanon survivor. The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . It was good that Synanon took in minorities, and when Dederich married Betty mixed marriages were not as commonplace as today. when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. (Joe Ricci was a former Daytop student who went on to found his own program for troubled youth in Maine called Elansee below.) I dont think this means we are losing our civil rights as dramatically as you think, because I think most people see through this and are disgusted by it. 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. Society would have to catch up with Dederich on his ideas of dieting, exercise, and no smoking. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. The musician was careful in his portrayal of his mother, whom he feared would come across as a one-dimensional villain. 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. "Whose fault is it? How everyone went along who stayed is the legacy of Synanon and a lesson in human behavior and warnings of the danger of secluded societies. He wrote that the Synanon experience in playing the game, peers caring for peers without doctors, created a cure for drug addiction. 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. 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). Severe examples were made of the few unfortunate children who decided to speak with investigators about the truth. 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. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. 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. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. For those, as stated above, there is no doubt Synanon served as Ofshe stated, a realistic shelter while they got their act together. And it will be edited further. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. Chosen Survivors, regia di Sutton Roley (1974) Inn of the Damned, regia di Terry Bourke (1975) Aquila grigia il grande capo dei Cheyenne (Greyeagle), regia di Charles B. Mental health service. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. 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. "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. I was forced to watch twenty men and women beat a 14 year old girl in what we called a, Cowboy Ass kicking, for ten to twenty minutes. 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. 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. 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. I would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. Further it established shelter and group support could aid those truly wanting to stop. Many who studied Synanon agreed. Hopefully somedaywe get back the candidates like that; but Im not smart enough to suggest how. 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. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. Elan generated very large tax revenues for the state of Maine. WebSynanon eventually unraveled in a series of assaults and attempted murder. Worse, they continue today despite strong efforts to expose them. ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. 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. 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. Both AA and Synanon provided this insight, but unfortunately each bounded its members with an ideology and demand to never quit the organizations. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. . 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. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. I offered them to him but he declined. 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. 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 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. 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. Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And Future Photo Library 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. During these group assaults on individual residents in the hot seat, especially newcomers, any castigation and ridicule appear to come from the whole community of clients. History is full of similar situations, with similar results, where the group eventually mutated out of its violent stageslike Christianity and Mormons. He had the addicts psychologically tested and found Synanon did not change people internallythat they were still antisocial. There just a, lots of them down in the Bank of America building in San Francisco, Pacific Union club, various law offices throughout the country, the streets, the ghettos, the penitentiaries. Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. And back is my reply to you. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. Synanon was not unique. 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. That for about a period of 7 years most of my friends were ex synanon members. The study of cults can teach us the problems of nations. I did not delete Susans comment, they disappeared and then reappeared; have happy holidays. Sincerely My book, you obviously did not read, you will be happy to know was edited sufficiently to eliminate all bad grammar. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. . WebSynanon was a religous community. "I think the insight for me was I always loved her, she just wasn't very good at loving me. The experiences with the original population of adult addicts still pervade the thinking and functioning of most T.C.s. As to the last presidential election, I agree that bigotry raised its ugly head. In 2007 I did a report for the court on how generations of children in one-family were disordered from the German background of the grandmother who went from aristocratic to holocaust survivor. It just seems monstrous.". All he knew was that if someone stayed they didnt do drugs. .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. Real crazy people. 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. By the 60s the Los Angeles school system had schools (not all) already well integrated and taught anti-bigotry. It reasoned that success stories generally had little to do with the programs themselves. In my opinion Elan operated as a continueing criminal enterprise for close to forty years. Others were taken below or in barns to be beaten. 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? Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center (Jollett explains that he, like many other former Synanon kids, suffered from reactive attachment disorder, in which a child does not form a healthy emotional bond with his caretakers.). Phoenix House is one of the biggest TCs today. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. 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? That is just a fact. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. "Sometimes I think about this book as this primal scream, this assertion: 'This happened. You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. In the introduction I asked the question was Charles Dederich just another sociopath who rose to power or was he a Jedi Knight seduced by the Dark Side. 14-year-old Anthony Haynes died while attending a five-week boot camp operated by the Americas Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association. Thats the nature of our business. one, it was a hard fought battle. Both are real experiences, but which is more important to learn from. While the abuse in Synanon was bad enough, it pails in comparison to a stream of sociopaths who hijacked the system to become Millionaires through the abuse of children; in some cases even as morally deprived as organizations that kidnap children and sell them for profit. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. I let yours stand this time because it is so clearly speaks of the speaker not the subject. WebNeed your help! In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. 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. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. Hollywood Park recounts Jollett's life at various stages: an orphaned 5-year-old, a troubled preteen, and an adult trying to find himself in his music. ", 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 offered the information to Janzen and he didnt want it. Spankings with paddles often drew blood and Phil Williams was beaten to death in the ring. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. He was constantly accused of being a malingerer and faking it when he complained of being sick and unable to go on. Before moving in, Jollett had always considered his dad a "badass," a "criminal," a "pirate. Died of dehydration. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. . Its a real field day.. And he started saying, 'Don't be like me. But these ideals were short lived. If you have a complaint it is with Yablonsky and Janzen who had no understanding of the Synanon system. Although I think this is waning some now Movies now are once again about heroes and less about femme fatales. 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. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. Vision Quests leader was convicted of smuggling cocaine. 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. 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Synanon was the first therapeutic community devoted to the treatment of the drug addicted according to the Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol, which is edited by the first White House Drug Czar; Dr. Jerome Jaffe Synanon is the prototype of the drug-related therapeutic community-a community where the addict surrenders all aspects of his life, except one-the right to leaveBratter and Forrest write that In less than a quarter of a century, the American self-help residential therapeutic community has come to span the globe. I would say some things are not debatable. But, in the late '70s, the California-based organization became synonymous with violence. A Violent, Deadly Cult With Forced Abortions and Shades of Scientology FOLLOW THE LEADER San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images 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. 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. I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. lawyer magazine paul Morantz on you tube. TimI didnt say I was the only one to fight Synanon. Tony, always angry as a child, sank into addiction at an early age and went to rehab. 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. A 15-year-old boy died from a staph infection at a Colorado wilderness program. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. And I still do. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. WebSynanon sought religious status in 1974, with Diedrich as its leader. 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. This story By 1976 the plan to transfer the money to the Dederich family was cemented and implanted. 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. I was not for that idea, because I saw most members as victims. I agree with current views, given the atrocities that have occurred in Synanon clones, but I also still think the idea, discounting the dogma, to have a group of peers encouraging you and available at any time to talk to if you are considering going on a binge and you cannot reach your professional, is good. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. God bless you. I had never been arrested nor done drugs. For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. To me there is good reason why Elan was not on the the map. 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. Dinosaur Survivors Leave a Reply Cancel reply. 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. But instead he made lab rats out of people. Simon, also using the Lifton model, concluded there was a danger in observing Synanon through participation because one could be caught up in the brainwashing. 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. But there wont be any room for the kind of people you are now. Eventually, the future could only be Orwellian. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. "'Ha, ha! Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. But I, its a marvelous business to watch these assholes come in and fall all over themselves and try bite me in the ass. The methods the religious community used to break down the members are still used in rehab facilities across the United States. Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. No one will be mad at you. 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, And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. The medical examiners office said Haynes died of complications from dehydration and near-drowning dehydration after being made to stand in the sun for up to five hours, the near-drowning from being left in a motel bathtub, where he had been taken to cool him off. It a very sick place for teen agers,and during my time we were mixed in with adults. In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia awarded Fred Collins, Jr. $220,000 for being falsely imprisoned at Straight.Inc. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. The Old Man would testify that he never gave a splitee a single thought from the moment each left. Justice For Our Angels. Anyway, you should learn about ones actual career before you make assumptions about it. Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. What is this thing that you think you're doing? when the uniqueness of adolescent psychological development is not understood and incorporated into clinical practice. 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