No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. 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. Ultimately, as stated above, Dederich would testify they never knew how to cure a dope fiend and nobody does. Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on the game. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. One cloneVision Questit has been written had 9 deaths; forced marches, black uniforms in triple-digit temperatures, harsh discipline and a daily diet limited to an apple, a carrot and a bowl of beans, all which were common to these orgs. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. 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. His family claims his pleas for help were ignored. Sure it maybe closed but it still needs to be investigated in the same fashion that Penn state was investigated. Order from Amazon, XHTML: You can use these tags:

. 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. Before moving in, Jollett had always considered his dad a "badass," a "criminal," a "pirate. 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. There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. It is also a story of the unconditional love between a Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. WebNeed your help! For author Mikel Jollett, the frontman for the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event, his book is a "primal scream.". As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. Even AA, which similarly indoctrinated a specific dogma the 12 steps is seen as not so successful as promoted and/or a proper therapy to cure alcoholism as it demands a dogmatic conversion and life time attendance that has been proven not necessary. As to CED I have no clear answer, but certainly his childhood traumas and abandonments were likely to produce pathology. It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. 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. 5 years from now we wont need people like you.. As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. You would know that in general I have a higher regard for Synanon people than the public at large. And that number was highly inflated by injection of squares and children born to addicts and squares alike. Both AA and Synanon provided this insight, but unfortunately each bounded its members with an ideology and demand to never quit the organizations. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. 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. Relationships at the school between students and staff seemed to have little formal structure or sense of normal boundary and a students life was always under threat of intense and unpredictable disciplining and punishment. Largely, the squares were people looking for purpose and to be part of something. He noted that the child seemed lost in the rigid hierarchy and confrontation tactics of the program. He wrote: As a clinician I am concerned about the effects of intense, violent verbal interaction upon young teenagers engaged in a sensitive process of identity formation. 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, per Wes Fager, who also noted Dr. Jerome Jaffe stated 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 leave. Fager further noted Bratter 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. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. By 1976 the plan to transfer the money to the Dederich family was cemented and implanted. 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. 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. The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. That is not ego. I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. He wrote the failure of Yablonsky to see the horror of what he had written raised questions suggesting a lack of humanity in Yablonsky. Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. By the 60s the Los Angeles school system had schools (not all) already well integrated and taught anti-bigotry. Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. That Young people were beaten, some in public demonstrations. 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 He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. I suppose if they werent why Id have to find another business. Per Dr. Robert J. Lifton, this is what one would expect from any totalitarianism environment after removal. The sicker he became, the more he was tormented and tortured by the staff. 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. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. 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 . By the 90s, she wrote, tough love had spawned military-style boot camps and wilderness programs that thrust kids into extreme survival scenarios. Real crazy people. This is especially true when punishment is viewed as a healing process. Eventually, on the subject of rehabilitation, Ofshe would write, Synanon was the failure thats gave birth to an industry.. And it was repeated in books by Yablonsky and Endore and unfortunately repeated a decade ago by Janzen. It also provides no real therapy and is the same program for everyone. 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. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. What was it one in 25 days for 2 years? When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. Communist Russia was safer with freedom taken away. Thats the nature of our business. 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. We were indoctrinated quickly thru fear, humiliation,and the constant threat of physical violence. 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. The media pointed to me, but there were far many who had joined and fought to protect me as well as expose Synanon. standing in line at a supermarketI get it reading the rags past the time. That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. 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. You can also see a shorter version of my career on Wikipedia if you do not wish to buy the book. 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. Let alone, 'Okay, here you go stranger I've never met, take care of my kid. They appreciated the honesty of the work. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. (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.). The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. 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. It was like, 'Nothing ever gets to me. Synanon did not even keep it from the public. you say the logic is faulty, but give no example and state why? It is the freedom of thought and free speech that gave America the chance to go on and recover from its mistakes. Charles was arrested while drunk in 1978 and was barred from any further leadership within the Zones are designed to separate business from residential, etc. We were mentally ill. Chuck Dederich would not only envy the Money Elan made, but the protection they got. That's crazy,'" says Jollett, reflecting back on cult-members giving their children away at 6 months old. But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. I have it. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. 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. According to Department of For us, it was Experience of Contact, thousands of interviews, internal documents, depositions of leaders and a lifelong examination. Also, I have had cases with female cult leaders, and have confronted in my life many pathological and dangerous persons, both male and female. God bless you. Posted by 6 years ago. For many academics, it is reviewing writing of others. He found that at Odyssey House only 25% of admissions stay more than 30 days, that the rate is down to 9.7% after six months, 5.6% at 1 year, and 2.8% after 18 months; the programs required length of stay to graduate.. 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. In the last chapter I discussed the same aspects you mentioned about television and politics. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. Because he had lived for so long surrounded by yes people, he had no understanding how others would see his actions and thus was very open in admitting what he did, including that violence could not happen unless he approved it. By clicking Accept All Cookies, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. Need your help! As I said in the beginning, my views changed at different times, and it was only upon reading of what happened at the clones was my view finally shaped. And yes, there is some bad grammar. 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. CED had similar protection but blew it when he started ordering attacks and got caught on his tapes. Per Ofshe, Dr. Elizabeth Missakian, former Pres. 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. He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. Synanon added the game and other systems of punishment to compel compliance that would be copied by many sociopaths seeking riches, as discussed below, and lead to horrors to the participants in the clones that exceeded what occurred in Synanon. Shomeister. Its a calculated risk. 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. 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. Prove that all the Synanon documents directing kidnappings, beatings and murder did not exist. And that you should try to see people the way God sees them. I am a Synanon survivor. And I still do. 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. 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. Elan made millions and millions of dollars, off of criminal child abuse. 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. 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. 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. In Maias book it is described one woman was not even allowed to leave a teen rehab after she turned 18, the organization threatening her mother to toss out her younger child if the mother took the older one back. 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. Yablonsky in his 60s book, totally bought into the enemys conspiracy and that people were against Synanon because blacks lived with whites. (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. . you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. Yet it was from this that the miracle was proclaimed. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. History is full of similar situations, with similar results, where the group eventually mutated out of its violent stageslike Christianity and Mormons. 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. 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. 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. Instead it is led to countless deaths, destruction of lives and still continues today. Vision Quests leader was convicted of smuggling cocaine. You think I didnt experience Synanon, but I did. 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. 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. The money was too good; parents panicking at the finding of a joint and willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money to anyone with the sales pitch, never quite understanding the tortures and deaths that awaited. Originally a nonviolent group, Diedrich created the Imperial Marines to maintain orderwithin and outside of the community. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. In addition, group practice becomes an anti-therapeutic factor with the T.C. He interviewed Richard Ofshe but then without explanation he wrote Ofshes discourses of brainwashing interesting, but not applicable. All the civil rights marches, the anti-Vietnam protests, were uniting people of all races. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. Aftermaththe Synanon legacy TTI Survivor - Leviah Rose. What lies did we believe wholeheartedly?". Jollett also healed by opening himself up to therapy, music and, eventually, love. ), "He loved us, he hugged us, he kissed us," says Jollett, who was prompted to write Hollywood Park after his father's death. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. It did make news. The entirety of my writings say the same thing. It was bizarre, surreal,and violent it was not a school in any stretch of the imagination. What is known about the early days, was that the older joiners were more likely to stay than the younger, and its initial opening success per Ofshe reflected that then the current age of entry was 34 or older; they were people who had a strong desire to remove themselves from the demanding regime of an addict/criminal life. Neither AA, Synanon, or those that followed, were based on any scientific studies. None of us were hardcore drug addicts. it would take a few generations for this to work out. It's not good.' Phoenix House is one of the biggest TCs today. Synanon just wasnt that big enough to be an influence. But you make many assumptions about me. I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. Synanon Survivors. 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. But is there anything worth giving up freedom of thought? 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. 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. We're going to pillage the town! And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? A. Confidential. Ordered by the court out of Synanon, he returned to a life of crime and was murdered. In the early days of Synanon, the But these rules had long been eradicated at Synanon the root of todays confrontational-type therapeutic communities. Mental health service. WebSynanon Survivors is celebrating 4 years!!! A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. "He was just this big, masculine, Italian, strong guy that loved his boys. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. How old were you. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. Some people, whether from genes or experiences, or combinations thereof, just are not capable of living a good life on their own. That is just a fact. Podcast. For readers, Hollywood Park is a powerful memoir about one man's journey after he escapes a violent cult as a child. First, while our government says that all people are equal the fact is they are not born equal. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. 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. Many programs report a high dropout rate with younger adolescents, which is directly related to this factor. WebSynanon sought religious status in 1974, with Diedrich as its leader. Survivors of Residential Treatment Centers (RTC) WWASP Fighters. 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. 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. In 1974 Rachman and Heller had noted that many youths had dropped out of TCs because the methods were geared to curing adult addicts. 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But I wrote my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults with the view of writing the only book anyone need read on the subject. And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. When all the litigation finally ended, I had some regret that Synanon had been closed, wondering what it might have evolved into after Dederichs complete removal. Both boys had to navigate poverty and abuse, but Jollett's experience was vastly different from his brother's. You would also have learned that I have been in the room with many Synanon people countless times. In law, lawyers too much use the technique of attacking opposing counsel when they cannot attack the facts. I did not delete Susans comment, they disappeared and then reappeared; have happy holidays. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. As I wrote the youth did not buy in as did the parents, you sound like one of them. 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