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A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. Zones are designed to separate business from residential, etc. Spare the Rod Healing. as to George Bush, again in my book I said there was no difference between him psychologically and Osama. When she finally was rescued by a grandmother, the organization was fortunately wiped out by the resulting civil judgment for damages. 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. Synanon just gave it a giant shove through its PR machine which unfortunately attracted sociopaths wanting an easy road to riches and unfortunately led many governmental agencies and politicians to back their concepts. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. Need your help! Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. I just imagined Charles Dederich rolling over in his grave at that news. Synanon Survivors. Margo, you say you are a successful attorney. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. 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. 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. WebSynanon Museum (no password required) Please fill in both the "User ID" and "Password" entries; If you don't have a User Id and Password yet please Click HERE to Sign up: User Justice For Our Angels. 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. And with that all being announced on the wire, murder attempts begin. When I asked if he had studied brainwashing he said he had not. How all of this occurred is set forth in the first book So Fair a House by Dr. Casriel. Dinosaur Survivors Leave a Reply Cancel reply. 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. "Our parents weren't bad people, they didn't choose to turn their children into orphans. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. The game and all other methods of forced confessions, real or false to conform, are the essence of Liftons brainwashing. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. *.*..*. As to the legacy, conclusion was not difficult. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. So lets say you wanted to give the Third Reich some credit, which could be done, what positives can you say about Synanon? Prove that all the Synanon documents directing kidnappings, beatings and murder did not exist. I immediately sensed he was writing a book in which he was avoiding obtaining information that might challenge his view. I had never been arrested nor done drugs. The autopsy report stated that he died from a perforated ulcer, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. But I DO know the culture of Synanon. All throughout history when the same mix occurs so do the same results. also, to write a good book, you have to think that is what you are doing or it will not be a good book. The Cedu Schools developed into an industry of sister schools, clones and copy-cats, that are now a multi-million dollar, international and unregulated business., *.*.. You dont present any facts that they are lies because you have none. TTI Survivor - Leviah Rose. As to CED I have no clear answer, but certainly his childhood traumas and abandonments were likely to produce pathology. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. Im rich. "Whose fault is it? Largely, the squares were people looking for purpose and to be part of something. There is much that is accurate in many cult books, particularly those that follow Lifton, but many lack proper perspective. Thats the nature of our business. 14-year-old Anthony Haynes died while attending a five-week boot camp operated by the Americas Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association. The effects of this type of interaction upon a fragile self-image and upon later impulse control in the world at large have not been determined. And thats it for the idea that Synanon played a role in curing drug addiction. Casriel teamed up with Father William OBrien to form Daytop Village which today is one of the largest therapeutic communities in the world. Ego had nothing to do with that comment. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. That is just a fact. He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. Fager wrote: Dr. Straight used Synanons vaginal and anal searches to search for contraband for years even though they never found any. Not only did the system drive people out, Dederich eventually admitted it was designed for that purpose. 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. Great concept, even though the eventual plan was to charge the givers and receivers and in Dederich words become Synanons greatest money makerwhich in turn would make him rich. 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. If you look at your post, you will see you bring up matters which were brought up in the entirety of my text and there is little difference. The founder, Charles Dederich, ordered his cult followers to divorce and swap partners, with more than 200 couples complying. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. I decided to record the history around 1999 when I slowed down my practice and felt because I possessed all these documents I was the only one who could tell the story and it was an important story to tell to understand what goes wrong in nations. 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. Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. By 1976 the plan to transfer the money to the Dederich family was cemented and implanted. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . The entirety of my writings say the same thing. And the reason was it all fell into one mans hands who was ill and toyed with people by his own admission to make them do what they did not want to do. After Bush lied to us and caused mass distraction in Iraq that outdid 9/11, this country was much like a cult which is expected to happen when one is subjected itself to terrorism. I had gotten your phone number from Ben Parks. (Joe Ricci was a former Daytop student who went on to found his own program for troubled youth in Maine called Elansee below.) As messages here seem to disappear and reappear per you request I am repeating it. 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. 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. I comfort him if he hurts his knee or my daughter when she cries, whatever it is. 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. Matt C. Hoffman 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. Since I had as friends, people like Bernie Kolb and Ben Parks, who went from long-term addictions to long time great human beings, I concluded something there must have worked. Now that Jollett is a father he has a 3-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter with wife Lizette he says that his life has undergone another transformation. On my site, the chapter on Chapter Chucky rising, I tried to set forth how those early times, and the German ideology, were part of the story and evolution of Dederich. What is this thing that you think you're doing? Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. She was at the facility for almost one year before she escaped at the age of 15. Straights attorney for that trial was a prominent Washington, DC civil liberties lawyer named Ronald Goldfarb. Former Synanite Dr. David Deitch, then a Phoenix House director, has stated, A client must have the choice of leaving treatment, even if the youngster is on probation and the alternative is jail.(19) Richard Ashley wrote in Heroin that, The only power of decision the member retains once he enters a TC is the decision to leave. Dr. Efren Ramirez, founder of Phoenix House, has said that you dont rehabilitate a person against his will.. So is the eventual years later reverting to a longing for the days of comrades and cause. You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. 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. Paul- when Elan closed in April 1 of 2011. you say the logic is faulty, but give no example and state why? Yet it was from this that the miracle was proclaimed. (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.). 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. All he knew was that if someone stayed they didnt do drugs. 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. The Hammer Podcast. after 911, the Dederich type remarks that Bush was making were scary and I felt that free-speech and this country was dissipating; people were afraid to say anything that could be interpreted as un-American. ("There was no soft place to land, there was no one really caring about us," he explains. A business illiterate, I dont know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between shipped and delivered. 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. Sometimes I think women are more revenge orientated, but it probably still comes down to the individual. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. 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. Some had warned of the potential dangers of using synanons (game) on adults. But I have certainly seen where the situation is clearly reversed. About six years ago, though, she began thinking it might be a good idea. Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. If you have a complaint it is with Yablonsky and Janzen who had no understanding of the Synanon system. Synanon just wasnt that big enough to be an influence. For readers, Hollywood Park is a powerful memoir about one man's journey after he escapes a violent cult as a child. As a key distinction between comparing Synanon to America, those in Synanon who tried to warn or criticize were shut down and shoved out. Anybody. 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 Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. Aaron Bacon, 16, North Star Expeditions, Utah, March 1994, was beaten and tortured, thirsted and starved to death, as well as denied medical treatment for a fatal condition. The damage that has been done to many ,many children is unfathomable. Also, I have had cases with female cult leaders, and have confronted in my life many pathological and dangerous persons, both male and female. 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. We're going to pillage the town! Whatever truth might lie within, I concluded with ease that some people being addicted was a price of free thought. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. Forty four years later, with Joe dead and Elan closed down survivors are still searching for someone in a position of authority to admit that what happened there was abuse. It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. The group ultimately became a cult called the Church of Synanon in the 1970s. Synanon disbanded in 1991 [6] due to members being convicted of criminal activities (including attempted murder) and retroactive loss of its tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) due to financial misdeeds, destruction of evidence, and terrorism. [7] WebSynanon sought religious status in 1974, with Diedrich as its leader. If it had ended there, Synanons legacy would be far different and it would probably still be there. "I make them.". 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. And I really try to do that," Jollett says. Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. Psychiatrist Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber visited Dr. Ramirez in Puerto Rico and setup her own synanon-based TC in New York City called Odyssey House. 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. 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. Many are dead, many are in prison ,and worse many roam the earth as emotional cripples from just having come in contact with Joe Ricci,and his henchmen that helped him run the Elan Corporation. It still such a bracing business that I like to stay in it. It was like, 'Nothing ever gets to me. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. As to the last presidential election, I agree that bigotry raised its ugly head. So I asked him how he could then discount it and he responded because if it existed, he would have to consider it occurring in religions (he is a Christian and lover of utopian communities) and other groups. Joe Ricci, the owner, survived the state of Illinois pulling residents out because of the abuse and beat them in court. In addition, group practice becomes an anti-therapeutic factor with the T.C. Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. 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. And that was great. Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. 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., ***. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. Worse, when others, like Dr. Casriel, who formed Daytop, decided to use the Synanon approach modified, they did not understand the effect of age and desire in the Synanon flashes of success and further the danger of its approach as described by Simon and Friedenberg. 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. Yet by 1968, to justify ending graduation, if Dederich was correct, there was little success in curing addicts. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. S. B. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. 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. A Violent, Deadly Cult With Forced Abortions and Shades of Scientology FOLLOW THE LEADER San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. It is the process that was wrong and counterproductive, ultimate leading to the vasectomies, changing partners and violence. Further, it is foolish to treat all persons in the same manner. According to newspaper articles of the day he has publicly disclosed, Ive smoked pot, popped pills, but none of the hard stuff. Hereceived a degree in psychology from a mail-order company in Florida. Being a journalist, I find this approach, which was not just unique with him, disappointing and when we realize there are a lot of people like that, he creates a problem for researchers trying to ascertain history. Those who chose to reject his ideas were removed. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. This story You would also have learned that I have been in the room with many Synanon people countless times. The same result was stated by Steve Simon in his Harvard dissertation only in much more elaborate detail. It is the freedom of thought and free speech that gave America the chance to go on and recover from its mistakes. Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. We were mentally ill. Chuck Dederich would not only envy the Money Elan made, but the protection they got. At the heart of the Cedu program was a philosophy that had grown out of various self-help movements of the 1960s and 70s, such as Lifespring, Werner Erhards EST, and most directly, from Charles E. Dederichs Synanon cult, church, and street-level heroin-cure program. But it is mans nature to flock together and unfortunately war with each other. 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. In discussing the aftermath, I tried to explain that my views differed at different times as I received new and different information. 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.. In my book Synanon was only one chapter. At least three dozen teens have died in these programs, often because staff see medical complaints as malingering. For those, as stated above, there is no doubt Synanon served as Ofshe stated, a realistic shelter while they got their act together. I offered them to him but he declined. And that Susan, is what differentiates us, from other countries where there is no freedom of press. WebSynanon Industries. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? You know ts great fun, to watch that. ! For us, it was Experience of Contact, thousands of interviews, internal documents, depositions of leaders and a lifelong examination. (c) Nov. 2012. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. We were indoctrinated quickly thru fear, humiliation,and the constant threat of physical violence. Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. **, 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. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. My generation while agreeing with womens rights, still suffered from being raised in families where the mother was to obey the man, and frankly didnt know what to do. see review. "I think the insight for me was I always loved her, she just wasn't very good at loving me. By the mid-80s Straight was operating in seven states. Today there is argument, but generally it only comes from true believers like Janzen or long time residents who once condemned Synanon, , but now in their old age, as is generally the final stage for victims of brainwashing, per Dr. Lifton, rewrite their memories so each night they are at peace with what they took part in, including, if not outright participating, knowing of the Imperial Marines and all the beatings. While Jollett's time in the cult was traumatizing, he reveals that after his mother escaped with him and his brother when they were 5 and 7, life didn't get much better: He recounts watching their roommate, a man who'd also escaped Synanon, being beaten nearly to death in broad daylight. 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. Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. 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. 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. And back is my reply to you. 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. I'm going to rise up above all this kind of stuff, and I'm going to take care of everyone. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. Some of the kids when graduated became counselors for cheap wages, and there is probably nothing more vicious than an 18 year-old who was abused and now given the power to abuse. 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. 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