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. Synanon was discredited in the late 1970s and 1980s as its violent record was exposed. Spankings with paddles often drew blood and Phil Williams was beaten to death in the ring. I am still not in the same league with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, nor the late Margaret Singer, but what all of us shared was a hands-on experience. 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. 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. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. Worse, they continue today despite strong efforts to expose them. And it is no wonder that almost everywhere Synanon went, Dederich picked a location that was out of zone in which he knew they would be kicked out of, allowing him to claim outrage and obtain sympathy and donations. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. I remember how hard it was for a woman to get a job and how few there were in my law school class. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. 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 musician was careful in his portrayal of his mother, whom he feared would come across as a one-dimensional villain. 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. Any dammed fool who wants to come in and say Id like to live with you and we let them in. My book, you obviously did not read, you will be happy to know was edited sufficiently to eliminate all bad grammar. Synanon Industries August 23, 2022 2. What is this thing that you think you're doing? I have the book and am reading it. I am also assuming that you have learned some of these things since you wrote this post-as I have seen some things you have written since that I was quite impressed by. I witnessed a few cow boy ass kickings. 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. . In 1964 a New Jersey Drug Study Commission opted not to give Synanon any funding after reviewing rehabilitation statistics supplied by Synanon Foundation. 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. But there wont be any room for the kind of people you are now. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. Synanon was not unique. The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. It a very sick place for teen agers,and during my time we were mixed in with adults. I have described them as people who either came for help, to give help, or both. ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. Were you happy with the violence? 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 wrote that cults are just microcosms of greater societies. In 1974 Rachman and Heller had noted that many youths had dropped out of TCs because the methods were geared to curing adult addicts. when the uniqueness of adolescent psychological development is not understood and incorporated into clinical practice. 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. As to the legacy, conclusion was not difficult. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. still, we had not had a good Republican president since Eisenhower. Childrens deaths in tough love boot camps include: Michelle Sutton, 15, Summit Quest, Utah, 1990. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. 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. also, to write a good book, you have to think that is what you are doing or it will not be a good book. We have a freedom of the press, and when it does its job, and people do theres, there is hope. 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. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. When I asked if he had studied brainwashing he said he had not. And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. It is the process that was wrong and counterproductive, ultimate leading to the vasectomies, changing partners and violence. It was clear, that like Yablonsky, decades prior, he was enamored by Synanon. "In the case of my brother, he became the scapegoat. 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. 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. As I said, I would say the same of Janzen. 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. Anyway, you should learn about ones actual career before you make assumptions about it. 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., *..*.*. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. 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. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. It was reported between 6000 and 10,000 people lived in Synanon from 1958 to 1968 but apparently only 65 were ever known to have completed the program and elected to graduate to life outside the community. just state that and agree to the group rules!! Ex-members have no idea how close they all came to being arrested for conspiracy of RICO violations. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. His motive, which Janzen missed, was the eventual plan to steal all the money. Similarly, there is no evidence that every substance abuser is such for life and can only avoid destruction through one of these programs. 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. Thats the nature of our business. But I have certainly seen where the situation is clearly reversed. Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And Future Photo Library "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. It quotes statements I did not make but Dederich did. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. I have countless books of interviews and depositions. 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. And I really try to do that," Jollett says. Rocker Mikel Jollett's Memoir on Cult Childhood Is 'Primal Scream' Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. And of course, this was what was best in early Synanon, i.e., peers to talk to and help if the craving starts; also support when kicking cold turkey, food and a roof. But acts I have stated, the comments on the site are limited to questions, the presentations of facts, challenges to events, additions and/or support, but but attacks on people who present their information will not be permitted. 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. Spare the Rod Healing. ! Dr. Jerome Jaffe, the first White House Drug Czar, had written the foreward to Dr. Meyers book which had called for caution in the use of synanon-style screaming matches against kids. (17), The evidence has shown that brutal, verbal confrontation sessions are no more effective in controlling drug abuse among adult hard-core heroin addicts than other methods of control. "Mary Karr likes to say, 'You have to write about difficult relationships with great love.' In what ways are we just wrong? Paul- when Elan closed in April 1 of 2011. I had gotten your phone number from Ben Parks. Paul please post this comment and not the other two thank you sir. Also true, is that my ego places me in my eyes in a higher position than others. Some had warned of the potential dangers of using synanons (game) on adults. Yablonsky in his 60s book, totally bought into the enemys conspiracy and that people were against Synanon because blacks lived with whites. Synanons advertising of its few success stories was so convincing that many professionals like New York psychiatrist Dan Casriel had become convinced of the Games efficacy. Dawnne Takeuchi, 18, was killed when she was thrown from a semi-truck near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, in June 1994. In the early days of Synanon, the I don't know. 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. Ms Szalavitz wrote there are hundreds of emotional growth boarding schools, wilderness camps, and tough love anti-drug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. A recovering alcoholic named Art Barker in 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and run almost entirely by kids for kids. He participated in several missions, and arguably would have lived a better life but for his exposure to Synanon. 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. 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. Posted by 6 years ago. I would say probably every decade my views changed, either up or down, but only in small degrees. 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. Im so grateful, thankful & PROUD of everyone who made this happen!!! 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. 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. We're going to pillage the town! It just seems monstrous.". The Old Man would testify that he never gave a splitee a single thought from the moment each left. 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. WebNeed your help! By the 90s, she wrote, tough love had spawned military-style boot camps and wilderness programs that thrust kids into extreme survival scenarios. 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. 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The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. He had beaten me time wise. 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. 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. I immediately sensed he was writing a book in which he was avoiding obtaining information that might challenge his view. 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. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. 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. CED had similar protection but blew it when he started ordering attacks and got caught on his tapes. Unfortunately, came the imitators who sold the idea it was rehabilitative and copied it leading to a much greater list of damaged individuals than Synanon could ever achieve. Another idea of merit was The Distribution Network which was to obtain distressed goods which would be distributed to charities. And in March she went, flying into Georgetown with her family, a few friends, and Jordan TTI Survivor - Leviah Rose. That is, she was forced to run in the summer sun until she collapsed, and then she was left laying in the hot sun until she died. The experiences with the original population of adult addicts still pervade the thinking and functioning of most T.C.s. There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia awarded Fred Collins, Jr. $220,000 for being falsely imprisoned at Straight.Inc. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. [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. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. 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. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. I listened to countless game tapes. That is not ego. TimI didnt say I was the only one to fight Synanon. (c) Nov. 2012. All Rights Reserved. For us, it was Experience of Contact, thousands of interviews, internal documents, depositions of leaders and a lifelong examination. 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. 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. Tony, always angry as a child, sank into addiction at an early age and went to rehab. 9. The Hammer Podcast. There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. in the understanding and treatment of adolescents. Anybody. You would also have learned that I have been in the room with many Synanon people countless times. I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. 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 offered them to him but he declined. I am very grateful that you have included in writing your blog about Joe Riccis version or interpetation of Synanon. I asked him how he could write a book on Synanon without ever interviewing the person who fought it. ), "You put stress on a family, unpredictable things happen, and children tend to take on different roles," Jollett says. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. 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. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. But generally, as to your comment, my book was not in disagreement. Out of 1,180 addicts who had entered Synanon in its first five years of operation, only 26 had graduated. Dr. Casriel in 1963 reported that of 62 people located of 160 entries, 19 were graduates, while 43 remained inside 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. 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. I welcome anyones story, questions or facts; the only thing I delete is attacking the messenger; attack facts if you can but I am not going to have gaming on here, get the speaker when you cannot challenge the info. Education website. it would take a few generations for this to work out. 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. Please buy the book. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. 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