In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia awarded Fred Collins, Jr. $220,000 for being falsely imprisoned at Straight.Inc. And thats it for the idea that Synanon played a role in curing drug addiction. I have it. But these ideals were short lived. Ofshe further pointed out Dr. Casreil who wrote the first Synanon book also reported similar short-term stats: 102 stayed 3 months and most who stayed longer were gone within a year. Maybe it's the leader's fault. This story Further it established shelter and group support could aid those truly wanting to stop. They didn't know," he says. Elan maybe closed though we as survivors are not finished ,we are still seeking justice, and we demand justice for those that did not survive. Another myth perpetrated by old time Synanon members, and apology writers, like Janzen, looking for fans among ex-Synanon members, is that Synanon played a role in civil rights. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. 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. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? it would be interesting to see you rewrite a summary of what I wrote so it could be judged whether or not you understood it. Eventually, on the subject of rehabilitation, Ofshe would write, Synanon was the failure thats gave birth to an industry.. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. 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. Rather than a commune wonderfully described by Yablonsky and Janzen as reforming criminals, it made criminals out of non-criminals, and took former reformed criminals to a higher level of criminal violence. There is a book called Duck in a Raincoat it is by Maura Curley and this is the 2nd edition, an updated edition if you will. 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. 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. As such they were just like the many other children born into the cult. Synanon just wasnt that big enough to be an influence. 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. I look forward to comments, but those based upon facts, not attacks on the messenger. 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. 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. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. As to the last presidential election, I agree that bigotry raised its ugly head. But he ruled them out as heretics, not ever once, as did Janzen, do, as Deep Throat suggested to the Watergate investigators: follow the money.. 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. The Old Man would testify that he never gave a splitee a single thought from the moment each left. : troubledteens. (c) Nov. 2012. "'Ha, ha! That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. Both are real experiences, but which is more important to learn from. Jollett, 45, tells PEOPLE about the abuse he and many other children experienced while growing up in the "school" of the infamous Synanon cult. "Whose fault is it? And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. TTI Survivor - Leviah Rose. For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Originally a nonviolent group, Diedrich created the Imperial Marines to maintain orderwithin and outside of the community. Synanon Industries August 23, 2022 2. Out of 1,180 addicts who had entered Synanon in its first five years of operation, only 26 had graduated. But that idea was bantered by law enforcement as because of the wire, and the wire logs, knowledge could be proven against all who stayed in support. And furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIDAs parent) had funded the first Synanon copy-cat program in NYC called Daytop Lodge. 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. 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.. 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. 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. The story of Synanon is how one man took good people and turned them into terrorists. When he begged to see a doctor, the staff sneered at him and called him a faker and asked him if he were homosexual.. This was Synanon had its worse, andit is not permitted here. I dont have much to argue with what you say about the people in Synanon and do not disagree they helped others, they were there to do that. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. I'm not doing that. Paul- when Elan closed in April 1 of 2011. Maia wrote: No fewer than 50 programs can trace their treatment philosophy, directly or indirectly, to an anti-drug cult called Synanon. Hillary Clinton probably wouldve made a good president, the Alaskan Gov. (He is now sober. '", He continues: "'I'm going to make sure my mom's okay, because she's crying in the room.'". 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. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. A scheme that was illegal, it led to arrests in Arizona. [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. 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. He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. How all of this occurred is set forth in the first book So Fair a House by Dr. Casriel. 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. Rocker Mikel Jollett's Memoir on Cult Childhood Is 'Primal Scream' 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. Margo, you say you are a successful attorney. I was being sincere. 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. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. 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. Good luck. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. *.*..*. For those, as stated above, there is no doubt Synanon served as Ofshe stated, a realistic shelter while they got their act together. That is why the health department took action in 1977. Also true, is that my ego places me in my eyes in a higher position than others. NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Most program lingo IS Synanon lingo! And that number was highly inflated by injection of squares and children born to addicts and squares alike. But generally, as to your comment, my book was not in disagreement. Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. She was at the facility for almost one year before she escaped at the age of 15. I'm going to rise up above all this kind of stuff, and I'm going to take care of everyone. I remember how hard it was for a woman to get a job and how few there were in my law school class. 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. It's not good.' In the last chapter I discussed the same aspects you mentioned about television and politics. 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. Matt C. Hoffman 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. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. You might call that egotistical, but I felt I had that knowledge because I had engaged so many. As stated in the Skeptics Dictionary, law enforcement officials, politicians and religious leaders helped push those fearing addiction to what it determined was primarily rackets designed to make money with little regard for human well-being (like Elan and CeDu). Some children have been placed for nothing more than marijuana smoking, and some because the programs told the parents unless they gave them the younger kid they would expel the older sibling. In 1972 he reported on the case of a 12 year old boy who had been admitted, along with older clients, to a second generation Synanon called The Odyssey House in New York City. 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. Further, Yablonsky married a Synanon woman and admitted he felt any attack on Synanon was an attack on her. He also admitted violence could not occur without his approval but he forgot the details due to his stroke. ("There was no soft place to land, there was no one really caring about us," he explains. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. but if I missed something please tell me. Real crazy people. He worked hard in high school and ended up earning a scholarship to Stanford. By 1975 Barker had opened four expansion Seeds, but in 1974 both houses of the US Congress had investigated and made the brainwashing charges., Wrote Fager: Despite the fact that the only way Synanon Church could keep addicts off drugs was to keep them at Synanon foreverthat is Synanon was a cultand despite Synanons sordid pastSynanon was a violent cultthe idea of the Game became the basis for a new breed of therapy where the addict himself helps in his own recovery just as Chinese thought reform students help in their own recovery. is a different 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., ***. Dr. Casriel in 1963 reported that of 62 people located of 160 entries, 19 were graduates, while 43 remained inside Synanon. They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. 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. ***. Elan made millions and millions of dollars, off of criminal child abuse. is probably the most clear and present danger the presidential office ever faced. Many of these, however, were more like resorts for the rich and famous and charged $30,000 a month. Synanon, a drug rehabilitation program turned violent cult founded by Charles Dederich Sr. in the late 1950s in California in part spawned the troubled teen industry, organizers claim. 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. 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. But Farve had the money so he could be self indulgent. I have countless books of interviews and depositions. They must be lies because you cant live with any other thoughts. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? Anybody. A popular TV series was based on John Maher, a colorful former Synanite, who formed his own second generation Synanon in San Francisco called The Delancey Street Gang. still, we had not had a good Republican president since Eisenhower. 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., *.*.. It also provides no real therapy and is the same program for everyone. Some children were taken to foreign countries, or islands, although foreign countries have done more to stop them than our government. 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. At his death bed, Maslow finally denounced the Human Potential Movement. Ramirez set up the synanon-based Phoenix House which hired former Synanite Ted Dibble to manage one of its centers. That's our job, to love this [child] fiercely and protect it. By 1971 Dederich would submit that while 10 to 12,000 people had gone through Synanon only about 10% stayed free of drugs for as much as 2 years, which was similar to the statistics everyone else concluded, which were the same at Lexington Hospital when Synanon was founded. By the mid-80s Straight was operating in seven states. 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. (Joe Ricci was a former Daytop student who went on to found his own program for troubled youth in Maine called Elansee below.) According to Department of 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. 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. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? In my book Synanon was only one chapter. 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. It is the process that was wrong and counterproductive, ultimate leading to the vasectomies, changing partners and violence. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. It was bizarre, surreal,and violent it was not a school in any stretch of the imagination. You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. I think Synanon was one of the most important stories of the 20th-century and leaves us with one of the most documented histories that is worth studying and learning from. Now, if it is not very God damn profitable, I would go into another business. Need your help! When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. What is mysterious about this? And I think he saw I might be going down that path, too. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. 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. By example, as compiled by Dr. Ofshe, in 1961 all Dederich reported was that 70 out of 176 addicts had stayed for 5 days. I was not for that idea, because I saw most members as victims. Spare the Rod Healing. But it is a calculated risk we take. This was written before he joined. No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. We're going to pillage the town! Children say they were punched, kicked and forced to eat dirt for minor infractions such as failing to stand up straight. 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. . 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. Were they all out to get rich at the sadistic treatment of others, or was this end in part of natural consequence of using such a punitive system, as suggested by the Stanford experiment on role playing of prisoners and guards? In 1966 New York City Mayor John Lindsay hired Puerto Rican psychiatrist Efren Esteban Ramirez to run the citys Addiction Services Agency. Gina Score, 14, at the state-run juvenile prison camp at Plankinton, South Dakota, 1999 was run to death. And when former clients sued Straight for holding them against their will, Straight pressured parents into letting Straight fight for them for the right to force their kids into treatment with the force of a court order. Per Dr. Robert J. Lifton, this is what one would expect from any totalitarianism environment after removal. The evil was he boasted that they would cut off any charity that did not do as Synanon told them to do. Have a merry. 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. I was inducted in late 1976 at the age of 14. 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. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. Looking back, I think my brother was appropriately angry with the adults.". Charles was arrested while drunk in 1978 and was barred from any further leadership within the I suppose if they werent why Id have to find another business. 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. The monster that now existed had to be stopped. Further, I wrote that the study of cults is studying a microcosm of the greater society. I find I edit better after I posted and edited this one about 5 times so far. 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. Justice For Our Angels. Synanon was discredited in the late 1970s and 1980s as its violent record was exposed. But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. Both AA and Synanon provided this insight, but unfortunately each bounded its members with an ideology and demand to never quit the organizations. They made people like Bernie Kolb who I loved very much. 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