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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. It was a gift. 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. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. **, Guy Endores book, Synanon, noted ex-members very early complained that Dederich had forced out the original Board of Directors and replaced them with hand picked trained seals. but if I missed something please tell me. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? Naya Arbiter Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. But before I wrote this, there were many before me who wrote the same thing trying to put an end to the warped Synanon system that as Dederich said was based on hate. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. That is just a fact. Kimberly Stafford, the Vision Quest counselor who was driving the supply vehicle, was convicted of careless driving. ), "[Tony] went to rehab at a young age, and I think it scared me," Jollett says. Information from former members of the cult quickly identified two of Synanons Imperial Marines as suspects in the snake-attack. While a credit to Dederichs foresight, it also unfortunately was a feature of his harmful megalomania. Campers say they had bruised ribs from an exercise in which they were ordered to lie on their backs while counselors ran across their chests in boots. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. Sometimes I think women are more revenge orientated, but it probably still comes down to the individual. So I went through it again to tried to erase that ambiguity and I hope you are happier with it. The Hammer Podcast. Ego had nothing to do with that comment. Copyright Paul Morantz. It did make news. 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 leader, Chuck Dederich, decided we wouldn't have parents, and then we just didn't.". Almost all modern day therapeutic communitiesand there are hundreds of themare based on the game. one, it was a hard fought battle. Most of what I wrote was a no comment description in detail of Synanons evolution taken from its own records. A. Confidential. Ordered by the court out of Synanon, he returned to a life of crime and was murdered. It is with Dederich who created the system, a person who in his own words never cared for one single second about any person who left. Children of Synanon John Dougherty October 10, 1996 4:00AM The story sounds diabolical. No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. Jollett believes the violence to which adults were subjected has received widespread attention. 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. Watched the documentary Ethel on HBO and compare the public speaking of the Kennedys to the embarrassing debates that took place in the recent election. Although Synanon was officially shut down in 1991, it had inspired followers to start similar groups that perpetuated Synanons worst principles. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. This is not limited to addicts. Synanon Survivors. Dr. Roger Meyer and psychotherapists Thomas Bratter and Gary Forrest warned about using synanons on kids. 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.. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? Paul- when Elan closed in April 1 of 2011. No one will be mad at you. Did you change partners? He participated in several missions, and arguably would have lived a better life but for his exposure to Synanon. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. All the civil rights marches, the anti-Vietnam protests, were uniting people of all races. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. 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. So in that sense, Synanon contributed to the idea that one could get off addiction. 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. How old were you. Neither AA, Synanon, or those that followed, were based on any scientific studies. Out of 1,180 addicts who had entered Synanon in its first five years of operation, only 26 had graduated. I asked him how he could write a book on Synanon without ever interviewing the person who fought it. 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. A recovering alcoholic named Art Barker in 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and run almost entirely by kids for kids. You think I didnt experience Synanon, but I did. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. It was clear, that like Yablonsky, decades prior, he was enamored by Synanon. And finally, in the end, Synanon legacy is one not only of discrimination, but it became the Ku Klux Klan when it came to its conceived enemies. Whatever value Synanon might have had, I believed then, it had been long-lost. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. 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). And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. 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. A scheme that was illegal, it led to arrests in Arizona. It is also a story of the unconditional love between a 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. ), "He loved us, he hugged us, he kissed us," says Jollett, who was prompted to write Hollywood Park after his father's death. 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. That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. But generally, as to your comment, my book was not in disagreement. It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. If you want to really learn of how the inner controls were, you can contact me to get his depositions. That is not ego. 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. Its a calculated risk. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. Sure it maybe closed but it still needs to be investigated in the same fashion that Penn state was investigated. is a different Even when Synanon was given an exemption for cold turkey treatment, Synanon created an illegal clinic and took in persons needing care other than addiction for which it required a license. I had never been arrested nor done drugs. 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. 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. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. 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. In context, my conversation with Rod Janzen, as he certainly knew of me, and if he was a true journalist, he would have had to interview me to follow all leads. For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Maybe it's the leader's fault. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. A business illiterate, I dont know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between shipped and delivered. Thats why I wrote the history of Synanon because there is so much to learn. We were mentally ill. Chuck Dederich would not only envy the Money Elan made, but the protection they got. They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. Also, because of time restraints, I put up the information so it is there and then go back and edit when I have the chance. If one thought about it, does one really need to go to a rehab to stop taking pain pills or a little drinking or smoking marijuana; these were and are issues that the medical profession could not fail in guiding if one wanted to quitreducing, changing or eliminating prescriptions. You might call that egotistical, but I felt I had that knowledge because I had engaged so many. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. In October of 1977 press conference Dan Garrett bragged that after beating the shit out of (Dinuba punks teenagers retrieving their car) we told them to tell all their friends this is just a taste of what will happen next time; and that as to the San Francisco punks we put 4 of them in the hospital. He further admitted they ran some cock suckers into a ditch and shaved their heads. 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. The authorities closed it down. CED had similar protection but blew it when he started ordering attacks and got caught on his tapes. 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. He had beaten me time wise. Posted by 6 years ago. Thats the nature of our business. 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. I stated my views, but I gave statistics and reports to back them, most unfortunate to learn of the great tragedy that have occurred in the clones are all these years. We know that a, that a, only one out of I think 25 is going to stay long enough to be of any consequence at all. Link To The Synanon Survivors Group And Future Photo Library I look forward to comments, but those based upon facts, not attacks on the messenger. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. It is also a story of the unconditional love between But these rules had long been eradicated at Synanon the root of todays confrontational-type therapeutic communities. 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. The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. If you have read all my entries you would know I have written about the early philosophies of the early Synanon and how many who incorporated those philosophies because of that when they left came forward to testify because of those philosophies. Yet it was from this that the miracle was proclaimed. 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. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. After all why should they not get paid for all that work? .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. 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. My discussion is on the known today dangers of a hatchery (abandonment syndrome) which Susan Richardson wrote about, the psychological affects of attack therapy which can cause psychological damage, including psychotic breaks (which happened at Synanon) and how everyone finally bought into the enemy at the door who were all prejudiced against them and finally reduced Synanon to a state of mind where propaganda ruled over truth, all the ideals were tossed out and a growing comparison to the Manson family was in place. Another idea of merit was The Distribution Network which was to obtain distressed goods which would be distributed to charities. On June 27, 1990, six weeks after the death of Michelle Sutton, 16-year-old Kristin Chase died at the Challenger wilderness camp in Utah of hyperthermia and dehydration after a 5-mile forced march in 105-degree heat. Bringing Luis Home September 26, 2022 10. Any dammed fool who wants to come in and say Id like to live with you and we let them in. 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. 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. 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. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. I was not for that idea, because I saw most members as victims. Suggest you get my book on Amazonmy life was not limited to Synanon. 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. We were beaten for the slightest infractions of the rules. you say the logic is faulty, but give no example and state why? Many have the support of state agencies, because of the past publicity for Synanon, unaware of what happened in California and assuming therefor these programs worked. also, to write a good book, you have to think that is what you are doing or it will not be a good book. *. Now, if it is not very God damn profitable, I would go into another business. Synanon is only one chapter. TimI didnt say I was the only one to fight Synanon. Instead it is led to countless deaths, destruction of lives and still continues today. A former member of Elan wrote: Elan is best described as a, sadistic, brutal, violent, soul-eating hellhole. At Elan, the Game was transformed into constant screaming and degradation and the physically rough treatment became all day violence. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . I was taken there by my mother. 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. 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. "Our parents weren't bad people, they didn't choose to turn their children into orphans. The bad publicity led some supporters, Melvin and Betty Sembler of The Seed to create a copycat organization under a different name Straight Inc.but employed Du Point as a consultant. 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. 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. 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. In the early days of Synanon, the The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. Researched by Maia Szalavitz for a book in 2006 and for Mother Jones in 2007 she described the clone horrors and traced them back to Synanon. 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. "Then my dad became extremely interested in my life. No doubt their belief in Synanon was so strong that they had a good influence on others, but unfortunately they were also subjected to the Synanon system which from the early days warned of the enemy at the door (which Dederich eventually confessed at deposition he made up to bond followers), and later declared that you could never go home or contact outsiders. Jollett 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. Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. 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. WebSynanon sought religious status in 1974, with Diedrich as its leader. . You would know that in general I have a higher regard for Synanon people than the public at large. Fager wrote: Dr. People had to know its dangers before making choices to support or join. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. He spent 15 years 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. . And thats it for the idea that Synanon played a role in curing drug addiction. Dawnne Takeuchi, 18, was killed when she was thrown from a semi-truck near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, in June 1994. you might also want to watch Cal. After 30 years of pondering, I came full circle and realized that sociologist Richard Ofshe had analyzed it right from the start. Nicholaus Contreraz, 16, died at the Arizona Boys Ranch near Oracle, Arizona, March 2, 1998, of cardiac arrest, after instructors continued to harass him and force him to exercise even though he told them he was sick. 9. This is especially true when punishment is viewed as a healing process. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. 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. 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. I offered them to him but he declined. Dr. Casriel in 1963 reported that of 62 people located of 160 entries, 19 were graduates, while 43 remained inside Synanon. When she finally was rescued by a grandmother, the organization was fortunately wiped out by the resulting civil judgment for damages. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. *.*..*. It does appear prior post returned and I did respond to you at length. Spare the Rod Healing. Oaks and Spokes. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. And while because it was so small, its influence in non-publicized areas is doubtful. 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. Both boys had to navigate poverty and abuse, but Jollett's experience was vastly different from his brother's. 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