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.. Similarly, there is no evidence that every substance abuser is such for life and can only avoid destruction through one of these programs. In what ways are we just wrong? Her alleged crimepetty theft. 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. 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. And thats it for the idea that Synanon played a role in curing drug addiction. "I became very interested in the idea of buried history, all the ways that we as children were told things that were patently untrue, and that we believed them," says Jollett, whose book will publish on May 26, just after the same-titled album. 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. 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. In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia awarded Fred Collins, Jr. $220,000 for being falsely imprisoned at Straight.Inc. Dr. Roger Meyer and psychotherapists Thomas Bratter and Gary Forrest warned about using synanons on kids. In other words he would have to reexamine his beliefs and consider possibly his own victimization. Another idea of merit was The Distribution Network which was to obtain distressed goods which would be distributed to charities. Jollett's father, though not in his life in the beginning, emerges as the hero in the book. WebI run the Synanon Survivors Facebook group and wed love to have to as a member!! And in March she went, flying into Georgetown with her family, a few friends, and Jordan But the "abuse of children was absolutely swept under the rug, ignored, gaslit to hell," he says. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. 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. 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. Survivors of Residential Treatment Centers (RTC) WWASP Fighters. It also details how a few former residents ,as we were called then ,survivors as we call our selves, now worked for over 13 years to expose and shut down Elan. first, you say that many agree with what I wrote and others did not, and as you say, these agreements are expected and that some would be vehemently because of the psychological processes of denial. He stated he consciously directed the Synanon population through this method. [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. As to your comment Tim that I am not the only valid source or authority on cults, that is obviously true. In 1966 New York City Mayor John Lindsay hired Puerto Rican psychiatrist Efren Esteban Ramirez to run the citys Addiction Services Agency. 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. But instead he made lab rats out of people. 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. 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. Straights attorney for that trial was a prominent Washington, DC civil liberties lawyer named Ronald Goldfarb. 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. 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. 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. In one sense it becomes like the question of which came first the chicken or the egg. . "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? "Mary Karr likes to say, 'You have to write about difficult relationships with great love.' Do you realize that over 80 people were attacked? 1 talking about this. when I was growing up I thought world would be a better place if women were in control. 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] 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. I look forward to comments, but those based upon facts, not attacks on the messenger. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. And that was great. There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. According to Department of Synanon. The Synanon organization, initially a drug rehabilitation program, was founded by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich, Sr., (19131997) in 1958 in Santa Monica, California. By the early 1960s, Synanon had also become an alternative community, attracting people with its emphasis on living a self-examined life, What is this thing that you think you're doing? The example story might be that of Joe Musico and Lance Kenton. Now, if it is not very God damn profitable, I would go into another business. But that dwindled as the joiners became younger and Dederich turned his attention to using the media and Hollywood to produce a flow of persons, goods and services to develop by 1976 over $30 million in assets and the start of large salaries and bonuses. 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. 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. Synanons advertising of its few success stories was so convincing that many professionals like New York psychiatrist Dan Casriel had become convinced of the Games efficacy. Jollett, 45, tells PEOPLE about the abuse he and many other children experienced while growing up in the "school" of the infamous Synanon cult. (He is now sober. I would say some things are not debatable. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. When I was first fighting Synanon, however, things were very black and White. Finally, even the founder was not cured, returning to marijuana by 1977 and to an alcoholic stupor in 1978 that led to drunken parties throughout Synanon, as Phil Ritters and my murders were plotted, and the supposedly rehabilitated and reformed celebrated at the news of resulting injuries. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. just state that and agree to the group rules!! Its a real field day.. 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. 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. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. 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. 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. Sidney Poitier did more for race relations in one movie than most of the world combined. He became the one to blame, he was the angry one. *. Rather, the organizations said they worked, so people believed it. It exposes the cruel abnormal policies, practices and propaganda the Synanon children were forced to endure in a so-called modern America. Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. standing in line at a supermarketI get it reading the rags past the time. ", Jollett continued to struggle with past traumas as a young teen and adult. The media pointed to me, but there were far many who had joined and fought to protect me as well as expose Synanon. For comparisons please get my book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Oh so very funny. 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.. The monster that now existed had to be stopped. The authorities closed it down. So is the eventual years later reverting to a longing for the days of comrades and cause. Did you change partners? I wrote that cults are just microcosms of greater societies. 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But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. I use a voice recognizing system and then I have to go back and edit many times. That's crazy,'" says Jollett, reflecting back on cult-members giving their children away at 6 months old. He told me he was completing a book on Synanon. 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. If I did not want comments i would not have it set up too comments. Although Synanon was officially shut down in 1991, it had inspired followers to start similar groups that perpetuated Synanons worst principles. After 30 years of pondering, I came full circle and realized that sociologist Richard Ofshe had analyzed it right from the start. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center 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. ", After reconnecting with his father, Jollett who didn't understand what a "mother" and "father" were while living in Synanon finally had a loving, real-life dad and mom. A scheme that was illegal, it led to arrests in Arizona. 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. 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 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. You know ts great fun, to watch that. And they didn't do that.". Thank you again Paul for taking my call back in May of 2011,and for taking an interest in the Elan cult. The problem of these programs was it was believed it was justified to use any means, denying human and civil rights and treating people who didnt need treatment; all this done without any proof that behavior modification programs ever worked. 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. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. Rocker Mikel Jollett's Memoir on Cult Childhood Is 'Primal Scream' Members were brainwashed, tortured mentally and barred from leaving the communityescaped members were subject to beatings. Comments here are for input, questions, and providing of facts. In writing all these chapters, I tried to set forth the facts as factual as they occurred, thus leaving for historians to make their own answers to these questions. (Joe Ricci was a former Daytop student who went on to found his own program for troubled youth in Maine called Elansee below.) borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. NIH had even started its own experimental synanon at the federal lockup hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Here we go!' Congratulations. Tony, always angry as a child, sank into addiction at an early age and went to rehab. 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. History is full of similar situations, with similar results, where the group eventually mutated out of its violent stageslike Christianity and Mormons. 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. Thats the nature of our business. And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. 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. Paul Morantz Or a person could just stop. 65-pound Michael Wiltsie, 12, at Camp E-Kel-Etu, a private Florida facility, in 2000 was suffocated to death by a 320-pound counselor who sat on him until he stopped breathing. **, 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 so grateful, thankful & PROUD of everyone who made this happen!!! 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). Your comments is like talking about Nazi tea parties and trains running on time while someone else is talking about the Holocaust. He was so wrong and he refused to write many who studied Synanon came to an opposite conclusion. And while because it was so small, its influence in non-publicized areas is doubtful. Today, troubled-teen programs use Synanon-like tactics, advertising themselves to parents as solutions for everything from poor study habits to substance misuse. 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. It is also a story of the unconditional love between In one of his many papers on Synanon, Ofshe noted that it is doubtful that all the therapeutic communities that cloned themselves after Synanon would have done so if they heard Mr. Dederich testify as he did in 1979: its always a mistake to let anyone into Synanon. 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. In law, lawyers too much use the technique of attacking opposing counsel when they cannot attack the facts. ("There was no soft place to land, there was no one really caring about us," he explains. It is also a story of the unconditional love between a 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 None of us were hardcore drug addicts. Fourteen-year-old Martin Lee Anderson was murdered within 3 hours of his arrival at a Florida boot camp that was run by the local sheriff, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen, on January 6, 2006. No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. While forced to admit the attack on me, there is no mention of Phil Ritter or Eidson, etc., in his book, Rise and Fall of Synanon (which was same working title I had) rather a statement that the media exaggerated the violence and that there was no violence inside Synanon. Dederich said free choice in the hands of an addict was like a gun in the hands of a baby. The experiences with the original population of adult addicts still pervade the thinking and functioning of most T.C.s. The methods the religious community used to break down the members are still used in rehab facilities across the United States. A 15-year-old boy died from a staph infection at a Colorado wilderness program. In the early days of Synanon, the It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. I think he recognized, 'Oh, is this one going to become an addict, too? The same result was stated by Steve Simon in his Harvard dissertation only in much more elaborate detail. Kids were assaulted and restrained without cause and all the rest. Further, I wrote that the study of cults is studying a microcosm of the greater society. 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. In my book Synanon was only one chapter. Many who studied Synanon agreed. And I still do. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. 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. In 1974 Rachman and Heller had noted that many youths had dropped out of TCs because the methods were geared to curing adult addicts. Perhaps worse, was Dederichs friendship with Caesar Chavez wherein CED convinced Caesar to live like a rich man on La Paz and import the game which led to mutiny and the downfall of the UFW. 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. Now theres a little room for you now. 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. While a credit to Dederichs foresight, it also unfortunately was a feature of his harmful megalomania. A. Confidential. Ordered by the court out of Synanon, he returned to a life of crime and was murdered. 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. In short Straight took a bad treatment modality, made it worse, and then force their young subjects to endure it. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. It just seems monstrous.". You think I didnt experience Synanon, but I did. Maybe it's one of the things about human nature, that isolated power corrupts people. I further told him that UCLA records were selective and I alone had Synanons internal documents which tells another story. And as the classic 1971 Stanford prison experiment demonstrated, creating situations in which the severe treatment of powerless people is rewarded inevitably yields abuse. After saying staying in Synanon is the addicts only chance for sustained life, in 1976 Dederich said that in 5 years there would be no room for the kind of people you are now. You would make Wes Fager proud, I am sure, sadly he is no longer with us. And in the end, what I presented were facts, i.e., the actual statistics, what happened in the clones and the general consensus of experts that the Synanon system of brainwashing, punishments and humiliations is counterproductive and psychologically dangerous. 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. Suggest reading the fall of series. As stated, Dederich, himself, admitted at deposition that he created the boogeyman to bond people and keep them from running away. He wrote that many ex-members said that one day there would be a scandal and Dederich would run off with all the money. This piece was limited to legacy and was put together through stats, admissions and results in clones. 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