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. But they have settled now, particularly, as stated below, as I slowly learned the results of so many of the Synanon clones, which resulted in so much death and brutality. 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. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. Today, troubled-teen programs use Synanon-like tactics, advertising themselves to parents as solutions for everything from poor study habits to substance misuse. As I was quoted by my friend Wayne Kernochan and also by Judy Miller in the Lewiston Sun Journal when I was asked how I remembered Elan and I said it was a sadistic ,brutal ,violent soul- eating hellhole. I just imagined Charles Dederich rolling over in his grave at that news. Suggest you get my book on Amazonmy life was not limited to Synanon. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. 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. It is the freedom of thought and free speech that gave America the chance to go on and recover from its mistakes. What you write is not experience of all. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. It does appear prior post returned and I did respond to you at length. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. Rather, the organizations said they worked, so people believed it. He would want to know the reasons that motivated me, if he was in search for the truth. And with that all being announced on the wire, murder attempts begin. 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. I don't know. 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. Eventually, on the subject of rehabilitation, Ofshe would write, Synanon was the failure thats gave birth to an industry.. They appreciated the honesty of the work. Dederich in the early days would not release statistics claiming that a dope fiend would identify with whatever percentage failed and therefore would not come; finally declaring in 1967 it was such a failure that no one should ever leave. Suggest reading the fall of series. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. Spare the Rod Healing. When she finally was rescued by a grandmother, the organization was fortunately wiped out by the resulting civil judgment for damages. . Below is a chart made by Maia in Mother Jones: A. Orange on his website lists interesting quotes: Tough Love: Abuse of a type particularly gratifying to the abuser, in that it combines the pleasures of sadism with those of self-righteousness. Per Ofshe, Dr. Elizabeth Missakian, former Pres. 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. Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. Matt C. Hoffman 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. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. 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. 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. It exposes the cruel abnormal policies, practices and propaganda the Synanon children were forced to endure in a so-called modern America. 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. 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. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. Died of dehydration. Unlike Janzen, I was not looking for fans from any groups, but to record the knowledge I obtained so it might benefit others, as well as presenting an interesting read. It gives an unvarnished accounting of the psychopath Joe Ricci who founded the Elan Corporation. (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. when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. You might call that egotistical, but I felt I had that knowledge because I had engaged so many. . Experience indicates that when these counselors use an especially intrusive, aggressive approach, frequently debasing and harshly confronting clients, they may do more harm than good. (He is now sober. 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. 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. 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. But, in the late '70s, the California-based organization became synonymous with violence. To me there is good reason why Elan was not on the the map. Its a calculated risk. 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. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. It is also a story of the unconditional love between a Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. One feature of Seed was the Spanking Machine where a childs father must publicly whip his kid before the large peer Group. His motive, which Janzen missed, was the eventual plan to steal all the money. 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. "I make them.". 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. I was being sincere. I offered them to him but he declined. 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. 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. I'm going to get up at 5:00, I'm going to feed the rabbits, I'm going to make myself breakfast, I'm going to make myself lunch, I'm going to walk to school. This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. First, Susan, good to hear from you again. The reviewer for his section on synanons for prisoners is none other than Dr. Robert DuPont, the second White House Drug Czar and founding director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and who administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale. 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. 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. 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. I witnessed a few cow boy ass kickings. 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. He wrote that many ex-members said that one day there would be a scandal and Dederich would run off with all the money. Nov 04, 2017 Daina Fanning rated it really liked it. WebSurvivors report physical abuse, exploitation (human trafficking), and several types of psychological torment, including harsh discrimination and LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. It was a gift. Dawnne Takeuchi, 18, was killed when she was thrown from a semi-truck near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, in June 1994. Some children were taken to foreign countries, or islands, although foreign countries have done more to stop them than our government. I talked with you briefly about Elan and of its closing. Thats the nature of our business. The study of cults can teach us the problems of nations. Synanons most important legacy was to fulfill sociologist Edgar Freidenberg prediction after reading Yablonskys book that the organization was punitive, brainwashed and would ultimately create a dangerous state of mind. As a key distinction between comparing Synanon to America, those in Synanon who tried to warn or criticize were shut down and shoved out. No one will be mad at you. 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. It's not good.' Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. 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. 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. As I said, I would say the same of Janzen. However, there is little evidence that harsh behavior-modification techniques can solve these problems. I further told him that UCLA records were selective and I alone had Synanons internal documents which tells another story. Ego had nothing to do with that comment. "I think the insight for me was I always loved her, she just wasn't very good at loving me. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. Please buy the book. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. First, while our government says that all people are equal the fact is they are not born equal. "Sometimes I think about this book as this primal scream, this assertion: 'This happened. I listened to countless game tapes. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. He also forced women to have abortions and almost 200 men had vasectomies after Dederich forbade any more children. 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