I had gotten your phone number from Ben Parks. Straights attorney for that trial was a prominent Washington, DC civil liberties lawyer named Ronald Goldfarb. And just how successful were the Synanon imitators? Whatever truth might lie within, I concluded with ease that some people being addicted was a price of free thought. The truth is Santa Monica was enforcing a valid zoning prohibition. But we are not Communist China, Communist Russia or Germanys Nazis. People had to know its dangers before making choices to support or join. Jollett also healed by opening himself up to therapy, music and, eventually, love. Nonprofit Organization. WebSynanon was a religous community. Free choice is an American ideal, and we sacrifice for it, to preserve it, because as a nation we believe it is our greatest freedom. Need your help! WebSynanon eventually unraveled in a series of assaults and attempted murder. This intrusive, assertive therapeutic style works well for a few clients but may injure many more. Professor Bellis noted that, A number of clients. 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. That did not exist in Synanon, that is what cemented its doom. But he was tapped for his past violent tendencies and unleashed like Russell Crowe in L. 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? Its a calculated risk. 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. WebJan 2010 - Present13 years 2 months United States Im a CEDU Survivor who created & runs the Synanon Survivors Group on Facebook. And back is my reply to you. 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. Elan generated very large tax revenues for the state of Maine. Largely, the squares were people looking for purpose and to be part of something. Synanons punitive system of verbal attacks and humiliation was counterproductive and drove out most that entered. No doubt their belief in Synanon was so strong that they had a good influence on others, but unfortunately they were also subjected to the Synanon system which from the early days warned of the enemy at the door (which Dederich eventually confessed at deposition he made up to bond followers), and later declared that you could never go home or contact outsiders. For readers, Hollywood Park is a powerful memoir about one man's journey after he escapes a violent cult as a child. 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. Education website. I remember you saying that you had not heard of Elan, yet you were aware of there being many Synanon spin off treatment centers. ", It wasn't until the boys moved in with their father a tall, Italian man who awed them with stories about once hiding a shotgun under his trench coat that the once-distant dad became more than just a mythological figure. 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. Straight used Synanons vaginal and anal searches to search for contraband for years even though they never found any. 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. Joe was a thug and a gangster, but when a law abiding citizen said so, Joe sued his bank and won ten million dollars. Looking back, I think my brother was appropriately angry with the adults.". Seven years before that trial Goldfarb had written a book calling for prison reform using the Synanon-style therapeutic community. [Chuck] Dederich [Synanons founder], an exile from A.A., is credited with being the genius behind the TC [therapeutic community] movement. 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.. 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. 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. Others were taken below or in barns to be beaten. When she finally was rescued by a grandmother, the organization was fortunately wiped out by the resulting civil judgment for damages. *, As with The Seed, at Straight abuse was omnipresentincluding beatings and kidnapping of adult participants. gave a grant to a Florida organization called The Seed, which applied Synanons methods to teenagers, even to those only suspected of trying drugs . 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. Yet at the same time, the noise Synanon made did wake up people to the idea, not yet existing, that cure was possible. The Hammer Podcast. No one knows the actual final fate of the 19. It did make news. When all the litigation finally ended, I had some regret that Synanon had been closed, wondering what it might have evolved into after Dederichs complete removal. Even if the system had worked, the price was too high free will. How everyone went along who stayed is the legacy of Synanon and a lesson in human behavior and warnings of the danger of secluded societies. my last chapter in my book did just exactly what you asked which was put my what you call myscholarly talents on the American cult. Bringing Luis Home September 26, 2022 10. As I said, I would say the same of Janzen. Congratulations. The sicker he became, the more he was tormented and tortured by the staff. ", "It wasn't like Godfather, it was like Pirates of Penzance," Jollett explains. 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. Thats why I wrote the history of Synanon because there is so much to learn. Thats the nature of our business. A business illiterate, I dont know an invoice from a purchase order or the difference between shipped and delivered. 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. Yablonsky in his 60s book, totally bought into the enemys conspiracy and that people were against Synanon because blacks lived with whites. Not only did the system drive people out, Dederich eventually admitted it was designed for that purpose. It cant be denied that Charles Dederich in many instances, while playing Skinner, was ahead of the times with positive ideas. "Whose fault is it? . 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. ", Jollett continued to struggle with past traumas as a young teen and adult. 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. Aftermaththe Synanon legacy 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. Copyright Paul Morantz. 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. Oaks and Spokes. Margo I agree I looked at every branch. Ego had nothing to do with that comment. Died of dehydration. Matt C. Hoffman 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. And you quite accurately describe the reason, it was protected. I delete only the crazies refuse to present any argument, rebuttal facts or evidence that anything stated was not true; but just a statement that anyone who would think that or write such facts belongs in a nut house. But their position was based on incomplete data, in Janzen s case that was intentional. Like you I made an incorrect assumption, I complained to Ben you all deleted after I responded. What is mysterious about this? So I went through it again to tried to erase that ambiguity and I hope you are happier with it. 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. Every time we let somebody into Synanon we assume an enormous liability and this is done consciously. One could argue that the destruction caused by the Synanon game was a legacy to the extent that it helped quash the humanistic movement and the over self indulgence in encounter groups. You think I didnt experience Synanon, but I did. Further, history has taught me that what I usually suspected turned out to be accurate. Saying his death was caused by cardiac arrest, said Cohen, is really sugar-coating the pill as he was tortured to death and also denied medical treatment. 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. The monster that now existed had to be stopped. But I believe there are important messages in its history I was drivin not to let Janzen alter it. Professor David Bellis was one. I find I edit better after I posted and edited this one about 5 times so far. Correcting Claire Clarks Recovery Revolution, Book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. It quotes statements I did not make but Dederich did. Bellis, citing various sources, found that the success rate in the Synanon imitators was no better than that the dismal statistics of Synanon itself. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. 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. 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. Suggest you get my book on Amazonmy life was not limited to Synanon. Even today, some ex Synanon members, including many who had claimed they were harmed and/or were critical upon leaving, have played an on-line version with each other that slowly brought them back into the fold, confessing what others want to hear and afraid to say what they dont. This is not limited to addicts. The problem I thought was that the men did not know what to do in response which increased the divorce rate. WebSynanon Survivors is celebrating 4 years!!! Some have shown that synanon confrontations can potentially be psychologically damaging and may not be suitable for all audiences-especially for adolescents. When they asked me, if an addict enters Synanon, how long will it take? My answer is, If he is lucky, it will take forever.. Justice For Our Angels. Real crazy people. "At that age, my response was to become the super kid. 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 listened to countless game tapes. I look forward to comments, but those based upon facts, not attacks on the messenger. In reality, who was cured depended on how much each wanted it; and that generally holds true in all programs. In my opinion Elan operated as a continueing criminal enterprise for close to forty years. 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. 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. Zones are designed to separate business from residential, etc. Maybe if I had written sooner some would still be alive. 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. Paul Morantz 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. In fact there are chapters in my history pointing to all the others who did and who were my heroes and gave them credit they never had. We were beaten for the slightest infractions of the rules. 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. Dr. Roger Meyer, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University, and formerly the Acting Chief of the Center for Studies of Narcotics and Drug Abuse at NIMH, was one of the first to question the wisdom of subjecting kids to the brutality of the Synanon Game. A scheme that was illegal, it led to arrests in Arizona. In 1974, Congress opened an investigation into such behavior-modification programs, finding that The Seed had used methods similar to the highly refined brainwashing techniques employed by the North Koreans. is someone writes a personal attack on me, or anyone else who comments, is deleted. Podcast. Rather, the organizations said they worked, so people believed it. For many academics, it is reviewing writing of others. Ex-members have no idea how close they all came to being arrested for conspiracy of RICO violations. There are more successes, like the Rolling Stones Rick Jones, that stemmed from bona fide psychotherapy. The authorities closed it down. Ben had told me you felt I had added more to what you had written and your excellent children study, and when I went back and read it I saw there was ambiguity between when I was quoting you and when I was adding my own additional comment. One cloneVision Questit has been written had 9 deaths; forced marches, black uniforms in triple-digit temperatures, harsh discipline and a daily diet limited to an apple, a carrot and a bowl of beans, all which were common to these orgs. Sam Gillette is a books Writer/Reporter for People.com and People Magazine. 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. Or a person could just stop. Elan made millions and millions of dollars, off of criminal child abuse. As I said in the beginning, my views changed at different times, and it was only upon reading of what happened at the clones was my view finally shaped. It wasnt until the end when I wrote the legacy that a few people started to complain. 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.. 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. Paul please post this comment and not the other two thank you sir. Im not pleased about it, a lot of people got hurt and if your part of the Justice system that should bother you. A belief system based upon coercive persuasion is expected by all who have studied it to be largely abandoned when the pressures are removed. Its wonderful. lawyer magazine paul Morantz on you tube. In the book The Tunnel Back Yablonsky, Dederich and another Dr. discuss that the Synanon system is similar to Dr. Liftons discussion of Chinese brainwashing. Further it established shelter and group support could aid those truly wanting to stop. I wrote that cults are just microcosms of greater societies. Eventually, the future could only be Orwellian. In 1964 a New Jersey Drug Study Commission opted not to give Synanon any funding after reviewing rehabilitation statistics supplied by Synanon Foundation. He became the one to blame, he was the angry one. just state that and agree to the group rules!! Synanon was a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and movement-turned-cult in California that existed from 1958 to 1991. 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. Jollett says his feelings were not validated by his mother, who instead relied on him for comfort. In conclusion, while the notions in Synanon arose out of Dederichs troubled childhood, I dont think all blame is on Synanonsuch systems existed all throughout history. 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 Yet by 1968, to justify ending graduation, if Dederich was correct, there was little success in curing addicts. Its first example, naturally, as failure, was Synanon, and like Synanon, its clones became the darlings of the media and politicians in election years. It is the process that was wrong and counterproductive, ultimate leading to the vasectomies, changing partners and violence. 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. Similarly, there is no evidence that every substance abuser is such for life and can only avoid destruction through one of these programs. However, there is little evidence that harsh behavior-modification techniques can solve these problems. They also had to fight for attention from the few loving adults who monitored them, Jollett explains. I was being sincere. I had never been arrested nor done drugs. I just imagined Charles Dederich rolling over in his grave at that news. A haunting tale of estrangement, Synanon Kid, is a coming-of-age story of hope, survival, and determination. The leader, Chuck Dederich, decided we wouldn't have parents, and then we just didn't.". ), "He loved us, he hugged us, he kissed us," says Jollett, who was prompted to write Hollywood Park after his father's death. This was Synanon had its worse, andit is not permitted here. "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. I also believed that Synanons many clones, adding doctors, and other proper variations, had established successful drug rehabilitation. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. I am very grateful that you have included in writing your blog about Joe Riccis version or interpetation of Synanon. Simon did not follow his own warnings, and after being destroyed in a Synanon game, and then befriended by Dederich, never left, became the keeper of the flame and ultimately went to prison for participation in a scheme to destroy evidence concerning Synanons violent conspiracy. Over the years as I wrote c. upon chapter of Synanon history, I have mainly received nothing but great comments from people. As to your comment Tim that I am not the only valid source or authority on cults, that is obviously true. Dr. Jerome Jaffe, the first White House Drug Czar, had written the foreward to Dr. Meyers book which had called for caution in the use of synanon-style screaming matches against kids. "I can't tell you how many times a day I pick up my kid. 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 are not alone, the world is full of people with such limitations and that is one of the main reasons war occurs. S. B. We were indoctrinated quickly thru fear, humiliation,and the constant threat of physical violence. "I am not bound by the rules," Dederich said, according to a 1978 PEOPLE story. When I asked if he had studied brainwashing he said he had not. While the abuse in Synanon was bad enough, it pails in comparison to a stream of sociopaths who hijacked the system to become Millionaires through the abuse of children; in some cases even as morally deprived as organizations that kidnap children and sell them for profit. ), "You put stress on a family, unpredictable things happen, and children tend to take on different roles," Jollett says. The entirety of my writings say the same thing. But you make many assumptions about me. As I wrote the youth did not buy in as did the parents, you sound like one of them. ***. '", After Tony went to rehab, their dad quit his job to be home with them and cooked dinner every night. Pierce (1977) 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. A small portion decided they had enough, and gave too much credit to Synanon and not enough to their own will power. I was taken there by my mother. But I, its a marvelous business to watch these assholes come in and fall all over themselves and try bite me in the ass. He spent 15 years 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. borderline schizophrenic patients, schizoid personalities, and acutely anxious, neurotic adolescents. 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. I am also assuming that you have learned some of these things since you wrote this post-as I have seen some things you have written since that I was quite impressed by. I agree with current views, given the atrocities that have occurred in Synanon clones, but I also still think the idea, discounting the dogma, to have a group of peers encouraging you and available at any time to talk to if you are considering going on a binge and you cannot reach your professional, is good. That is just a fact. He wrote that the Synanon experience in playing the game, peers caring for peers without doctors, created a cure for drug addiction. It was far from being just Synanon. I immediately sensed he was writing a book in which he was avoiding obtaining information that might challenge his view. 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. "'Ha, ha! Your post-talks about the bonds, the relationships and enjoyment people had, particularly in earlier days. 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