A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. Jollett, then just a little boy, hid to save himself. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. 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. "And probing into this world of the traumatized child. 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. Shomeister. 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 am very aware of the early philosophies of Synanon. Prove that all the Synanon documents directing kidnappings, beatings and murder did not exist. Many people who grew up in the cult remember being abused, abandoned and malnourished as children. Once again, her counselors said that she was faking when she complained. Ms Szalavitz wrote there are hundreds of emotional growth boarding schools, wilderness camps, and tough love anti-drug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. He was a great man and kind human being. 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. Also Santa Monica acted because Synanon did not have a license to treat anyone. Worse, they continue today despite strong efforts to expose them. In terms of drug addiction, thats where it ends. It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. As I wrote, starting in 1998, off and on for 3 years; then quitting, starting again in 2009, stopping in 2011 to write the book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults, and picking up in 2012, that question continued as did the question did Synanon leave any positive legacy along with its revelation that its processes dictated its ultimate outcome and was predictable from the start? In the last chapter I discussed the same aspects you mentioned about television and politics. And that number was highly inflated by injection of squares and children born to addicts and squares alike. 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. The Sunshine Place investigates Synanon through survivors, former members, and more Society & Culture August 10, 2022 Listen to The Sunshine Place I am a Synanon survivor. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. Hopefully somedaywe get back the candidates like that; but Im not smart enough to suggest how. Unfortunately as I learned what happened in clones and wilderness programs, people not only did not learn from that history, a book like Janzens can help fuel the continuation of its tragedies. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. While a credit to Dederichs foresight, it also unfortunately was a feature of his harmful megalomania. 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. they were supposed to be about love, while men were about war. 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. According to Department of Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother 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. In 1966 New York City Mayor John Lindsay hired Puerto Rican psychiatrist Efren Esteban Ramirez to run the citys Addiction Services Agency. Others who completed the program were absorbed into the organization as low-paid or voluntary staff limited to walking around money. Janzen could have had this dissertation, but he was not looking for truth. And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. But there wont be any room for the kind of people you are now. By the 60s the Los Angeles school system had schools (not all) already well integrated and taught anti-bigotry. 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. Sam Gillette is a books Writer/Reporter for People.com and People Magazine. But Farve had the money so he could be self indulgent. if you have actual information please, but your tirades will be deleted. This program was called MATRIX. In his final letter to his mother, he wrote, They found my weakness and I want to go home.. 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. 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. "All of us started having kids, and I think as parents we were like, 'Holy s---, what? I was not for that idea, because I saw most members as victims. Straights attorney for that trial was a prominent Washington, DC civil liberties lawyer named Ronald Goldfarb. But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. 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 I think he saw I might be going down that path, too. You are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. The musician also remembers the period with his mother and brother in Oregon, where they went to hide. Synanon did not even keep it from the public. 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. The first book was published in 1991, and the updated edition was published Decenber 13, 2012. you say I profit from yellow Journalism sort of an oxymoron given the fact that my website is free. It is true, we are lied to, propagandized and subject to many attempts to have us all think the same way. Its wonderful. 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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. He had beaten me time wise. This was written before he joined. 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. 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. 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. 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. God bless you. And thank you for further documenting the direct connection of where all these horribly abusive re-education brainwashing treatment centers came from, the mother of them all Synanon. I don't know. 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 want to really learn of how the inner controls were, you can contact me to get his depositions. The legacy quotes statistics that I did not keep or make, but Synanon did. But I also concluded that Synanon would always be dangerous because of the nature of the Synanon game. Justice For Our Angels. Copyright Paul Morantz. Arbitrarily, I would say that young persons under 16 years of age should be excluded from these programs and that careful evaluation be given admitting persons between 16 and 18 years of age . Rocker Mikel Jollett's Memoir on Cult Childhood Is 'Primal Scream' Synanon Survivors. "I have nightmares about my son falling down steps, I have nightmares about dropping my daughter. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. There were countless communes and entities much larger that took in people of all races. He also forced women to have abortions and almost 200 men had vasectomies after Dederich forbade any more children. 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. The Hammer Podcast. They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. (Joe Ricci was a former Daytop student who went on to found his own program for troubled youth in Maine called Elansee below.) I gave you a ring and was most pleasantly surprised that you answered. Where you at synanon in 1972-1973? 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