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	Religious Movements Homepage: SYNANON
		Synanon was created in 1958 with the idea of being a community in which alcohol and drug addicts could come to be rehabilitated and then be returned to the outside world as responsible and contributing members.
		In 1991 Synanon lost it's tax-exempt status as a church and shortly thereafter Synanon disbanned.
		With the exception of the brief period of time during which Synanon was seen as a miracle strategy for dealing with addictions, the group seemed constantly to be in conflict with the community around it and with the media.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/synanon.html (3691 words)

	Synanon: SignUp Information
		This part of the site is for former Synanon residents only.
		If you are a former Synanon resident we'd love to have you on the site.
		We have 2,942 pictures of people, places, and things from Synanon's earliest days up through pictures as we are today.
	www.synanon.org /synanon/MemberApply2.cfm (0 words)

	Ξ The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia
		According to author Rod Janzen, Synanon became “one of the most successful and most innovative communal societies in the United States.” At its peak, more than 2,000 men, women, and children resided in its various communities; and its commercial enterprises had spread across the country and abroad.
		Although unfortunately no follow-up statistics were collected, Synanon gained a reputation for rehabilitating “dope fiends.” It attracted the attention of Hollywood celebrities such as Steve Allen and Stan Kenton; bevies of sociologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists; and squads of government officials eager to contract out the care of delinquents, criminals, and substance abusers.
		Synanon’s appeal as a Utopian, diverse, non-violent, caring, mini society led to the admission of “squares,” including anti-war hippies.
	www.culticstudiesreview.org /csr_bkreviews/bkrev_risefallsynanon.htm (658 words)

	Charles Dederich, founder of Synanon, dies
		Synanon members lived together in a commune, dealing with their addiction under Dederich's tough-love leadership.
		Synanon developed into one of the nation's largest distributors of major brand pens and other items used by corporations to promote their products and services.
		Dederich proclaimed Synanon a religion and was criticized for allegedly controlling the actions and thoughts of his hundreds of adherents.
	www.positiveatheism.org /rw/dederich.htm (514 words)

	Synanon Information
		Synanon ultimately became the cultish Church of Synanon in the 1970s and the group disbanded finally in 1989 when the doors were closed by the Internal Revenue Service.
		The "Synanon Game" could be considered a therapeutic tool, likened to group therapy, a social control, in which members humiliated one another and encouraged the exposure of one's innermost weaknesses, or both [1].
		Beginning in the mid 1970s, women were required to shave their heads, married couples were made to break up and take new partners, males were given forced vasectomies, and a few pregnant women were even required to have abortions.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Synanon (1107 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Synanon purchased the Club Casa del Mar, a large beachside 1926 hotel in Santa Monica, and used it as a headquarters and dormitory for drug treatment.
		The concept of "lifetime rehabilitation" did not agree with therapeutic norms, and it was alleged that the group was running an unauthorized medical clinic, and that on remote properties in California such as Tomales Bay in Marin County and Badger, Tulare County, the organization had built unpermitted buildings, a trash dump and an airstrip.
		On March 20, 1978, a former member of Synanon was severely beaten (for being a "splittee") during his honeymoon when he took his bride to see where he had once lived on the Walker Creek Ranch.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Synanon (1193 words)

	News / archieve1
		These programs were derived from a concept developed at Synanon Church in California where addicts aided in their own recovery by shouting brutal indictments at one another in a synanon.
		Synanon itself became a bizarre cult whose founder was convicted of attempted murder.
		Original synanons were developed at Synanon and consisted of three 1 - 2 hour weekly sessions where 12 man teams of recovering, hard-core heroin addicts were suppose to aid in their own recovery by shouting indictments at one another and by defending themselves from indictments in brutal verbal confrontations.
	thestraights.com /news/archieve1.htm (3609 words)

	Reader's Digest Assn. v. Superior Court (1984) 37 C3d 244
		Synanon and its founder, Dederich, first contest their status as "public figures," a question of law which is crucial to the proper resolution of their libel claim.
		Synanon also contracted with a nationwide service to provide clips of articles published relating to its activities, and according to its report, 11,136 such clips were provided during 1978 and 1979 alone.
		Regarding the statement that Synanon's "spectacular claims of success were never proved," the record reveals that documentary sources available to the defendants reported that numerous claims of high success rates had been made by or attributed to Synanon and Dederich.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C3/37C3d244.htm (6834 words)

	Opinions & Essays, 02/1995 - Synanon's History & Influence In Therapeutic Communities & Emotional Growth ...
		Synanon was a highly controversial therapeutic community and counseling style, and remained such throughout it's history.
		Synanon did not consider its residents to be sick, and let them know that from the start -- that they had within themselves what it would take to quit cold turkey, go through the four or five days of withdrawal misery, and start to make different choices, all with the support of the community.
		Synanon's emphasis on self-help and self reliance is one of the major areas of contrast between Synanon and Alcoholics Anonymous.
	www.strugglingteens.com /archives/1995/2/oe05.html (1238 words)

	Opinions & Essays, 12/1995 - Synanon's History & Influence In Therapeutic Communities & Emotional ...
		The highly publicized, highly productive-appearing Synanon I of drug treatment gave way to Synanon II, III, and IV which were described as a new community and living style, a sanctuary or new community that was to be an example to the rest of the world of truly caring living.
		As Synanon residents agreed to isolation from their old lives, so is the life of a student in therapeutic and emotional growth schools somewhat isolated -- with, however, telephone calls, letter writing, family visits and parent workshops, as earned and is timely.
		Synanon's influence served as the roots, as well, of many therapeutic and emotional growth schools, each one modifying processes, bringing in new ideas, and moving on to create their own visions and versions.
	www.strugglingteens.com /archives/1995/12/oe02.html (1686 words)

	Woman's local show examines her life in Synanon cult (3-5-1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It happened in the "club" and in "clumps" -- the adult and children's housing units at Synanon in Southern California where she prepared the seder table, lit the menorah and sat down to meals with hundreds of "family" members in the 1970s.
		At Synanon, "she could have a life again and not be responsible for these raging kids 24-hours a day.
		Adults lived at the "club" and children, a 10-minute drive away, at the "clumps" where they were supervised by "demonstrators." Parents would visit periodically but were encouraged to take out children other than their own to promote the idea of each child having many parents.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk990305/etasynanon.htm (1079 words)

	Weekly Paper Says Synanon Paid $100,000 in Settlement - New York Times
		Synanon sued the paper's publisher, David Mitchell, and his former wife, Cathy, in 1979 after the rural weekly won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that said Synanon had turned into a cult.
		The newspaper reported this week that Synanon had paid the defendants $100,000 in an out-of-court settlement, and both sides agreed to end litigation.
		The award paid to The Light by Synanon's insurers was for ''defamation, abuse of process and malicious prosecution,'' according to the settlement.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE6D9123BF935A15751C1A960948260 (146 words)

	Straight Incorporated - Capitalizing on Communism
		Synanon seperated children from their parents as early as age 3 to live in special dormitories.
		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.
		Nevertheless he was familiar with Synanon because as director of NIDA he administered a whopping $1.8 million contract to an experimental, start-up synanon for kids-only called The Seed in Fort Lauderdale.
	www.thestraights.com /theprogram/synanon-story2.htm (6777 words)

	Treatment Professional's Books - 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Synanon evolved quickly into an experimental commune and "religion" that attracted thousands of non-addict members and was strongly committed to social justice and progressive education.
		Over 25,000 people were members of Synanon at various times, including jazz musicians Charlie Haden and Stan Kenton; supporters of the group included Senator Thomas Dodd, comedian Steve Allen, and psychologist Abraham Maslow.
		Janzen's in-depth analysis of Synanon serves as a case study of how alternative societies can change over time and how the general public's reactions to such societies can shift from tolerance to stances of fear and active opposition.
	www.alchemyproject.net /Bookstore/professionals7.htm (402 words)

	Ξ The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia
		But by 1991, Synanon was disgraced and bankrupt.
		Synanon initiated businesses, charities, progressive schools — including a law school, and so on, and it acquired real estate.
		In the absence of democratic checks and balances, and of responsibility, Synanon’s eccentric leader, like leader’s of other cultic groups, exercised a highly damaging behavioral, cognitive, financial, and emotional control over the group’s members.
	www.cultsandsociety.com /csr_bkreviews/bkrev_risefallsynanon.htm (658 words)

	California First Amendment Coalition
		This petition stems from a libel action by The Synanon Church (Synanon) and Charles Dederich against the Reader's Digest, the Mitchells, David MacDonald, and Richard of she.
		Although Synanon and its members have filed other lawsuits against the Mitchells, charging defamation in the Point Reyes Light and in the Mitchells' later book, The Light on Synanon, the present case concerns only the Reader's Digest account.
		Synanon claims that the Mitchells, Professor Richard of she, David MacDonald, and the Reader's Digest "conspired and acted in concert with each other to write, edit and publish to and among each other and to the readers of the article the false, malicious and defamatory words and language contained therein."
	www.cfac.org /CaseLaw/Cases/mitchell.html (4776 words)

	Marconi Conference Center - History
		In the late 1960's, Synanon began to de-emphasize its rehabilitation programs, and became a self-declared "alternative lifestyle community." At its height, it had about 1700 members, a large number of whom lived at the Marshall property.
		In 1975, Synanon underwent another transformation, declaring itself a "church" and amassed a large cache of weapons.
		The state of California launched a special investigation into Synanon's affairs and in 1980 Charles Dedrich, long-time leader of the organization, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
	www.marconiconference.org /history.htm (1989 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| One big dysfunctional family
		There, Swisher learned to read in two weeks and to nourish her creative streak while her mother gave up smoking and joined a group where she truly fit in, a racially integrated commune where her biracial daughters could be protected from the complications of the outside world.
		She plays all of the characters, from her chain-smoking, well-meaning mother to the "demonstrator" who taught school, to the buffoonish first lover the community foisted on her as part of a hilariously public coming-of-age rite.
		In her portrayal of Synanon (referred to as "The Group" in the show), Swisher looks at the successes and perversions of a new-age social experiment through the eyes of a sharp-witted child.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/03/29feature.html (1013 words)

	Stiftung Synanon
		Synanon ist eine Suchthilfegemeinschaft-Gemeinschaft, die 1971 von Betroffenen für Betroffene gegründet wurde.
		Nach mehr als 30 Jahren erfolgreicher Suchthilfearbeit sind wir in Synanon der Überzeugung, dass jeder Suchtmittelabhängige die Fähigkeit in sich trägt, wieder ein drogenfreies Leben zu erlernen, wenn ihm der geeignete Rahmen dafür geboten wird.
		Synanon versteht sich heute als "Lebensschule auf Zeit".
	www.landesstelle-berlin.de /e280/e2856/e2869/e3404/index_ger.html (248 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Synanon
		Those who came to experience Synanon and praise it were legion: jazz musician Art Pepper, psychologist Abraham Maslow, inventor Buckminster Fuller, actor Steve Allen, guru Tim Leary, Governor Jerry Brown, activist Caesar Chavez.
		Those outside Synanon who made too much trouble were roughed up.
		The final blow was the loss of tax-exempt status in 1989 --- at which time Synanon was, to all intents and purposes, a goner.
	www.ralphmag.org /DF/synanon.html (1355 words)

	Synanon - Moviefone
		Synopsis: The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real...
		Synanon - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times Synanon, the model for the rehab-house of this 1965 feature, was a large ex-addict-run (and ex-con-run) enterprise which expanded its operations steadily...
		Synanon (1965) Synanon on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
	movies.aol.com /movie/synanon/1076376/main (155 words)

	HWY61-L archives -- February 2007, week 3 (#127)
		We've come a long way from great outlaws like Lenny Bruce who might have gone to Synanon, to today's great outlaw, Britney Spears, who is not afraid to expose her bare head to the Lord and has just gone back into rehab.
		But once Synanon started to be taken seriously by the medical > establishment, then some quick re-writing was in order to fix the > origin of the name.
		The Game is actually an implementation of the > Chinese brainwashing concept of the Peer Group--a 12 man jail cell > where everyone understood that no one could graduate until everyone > had done what their teachers required of them, and that was to > actually come to believe their own trumped-up confessions.
	listserv.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0702C&L=hwy61-l&P=R3571&I=-3 (808 words)

	beauchene.html
		Appellant in his complaint as modified by admissions in his briefs, alleges that Synanon Foundation, Inc. is a voluntary private rehabilitation institution that provides a structured or controlled environment for its residents.
		With the prior approval of Synanon, California courts have sometimes sent convicted persons to Synanon rather than to a county jail or state prison.
		In light of the purpose behind the governmental immunity, it would be incongruous to hold that, while the state is immune from liability for its decision to assign Bentley to, and his unauthorized departure from, the Synanon program, the program itself owed appellant a duty not to accept Bentley or to prevent his unauthorized departure.
	www.ric.edu /tschmeling/courses/beauchene.html (1361 words)

	Designated Dancers, Why I Did Synanon by Alice Rost
		It is customary for many of us who used to live in Synanon to recall our earliest days as filled with optimism and vision and idealism, but for me Synanon was a dark place and it was the darkness that drew me into its center.
		He talked about what Synanon could become, that because we were people who were willing to change ourselves we could change the world.
		Synanon had a school created exclusively for children; a place for them to live and sleep and play that was designed so that they would not have to be told no over and over.
	www.thefictionwritersjourney.com /Writer_to_Writer_Alice_Rost.htm (1617 words)

	Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Archiv "Suchtselbsthilfe: „Nicht hart, aber konsequent“" (10.11.2006)
		Ich habe mich bei Synanon regelrecht abgegeben“, sagt Mario heute, zwei Jahre nach seinem Zusammenbruch.
		Denn nach Angaben der Synanon-Stiftung sind rund 70 Prozent der Betroffenen mit einer Bindung an Synanon von zwei bis drei Jahren nicht mehr rückfällig geworden.
		Weil Entzugswillige strengen Verhaltensregeln unterworfen sind und sie zunächst isoliert von ihrem ursprünglichen sozialen Umfeld leben müssen, wurden Synanon in der Vergangenheit immer wieder sektenähnliche Strukturen unterstellt.
	www.aerzteblatt.de /V4/archiv/artikel.asp?src=suche&id=53355 (574 words)

	NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service
		From 1961 to 1966, the author of this article spent a part of almost every day at Synanon, whose participants consisted primarily of former hardcore criminal/addicts who were in the process of changing their lives.
		The program began its decline toward demise when Dederich sought to move Synanon to another level of human experience by attempting to develop an all-inclusive utopian community for any who wished to join the community, whether or not they had a serious drug addiction.
		The author of this article touts the basic elements of Synanon as a TC, in which former addicts help current addicts to deal with their addiction and become drug-free.
	www.ncjrs.gov /app/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=198011 (359 words)

	The Synanon Game
		The Synanon Game which was developed at Synanon was used there and I believe it is still used as therapy in some drug treatment programs.
		Of course, Synanon had become wildly popular and endorsed as effective in some mental health circles and thus its techniques had spread and become popular, and that's why they existed at Tarzana.
		I have known a handful of people who were at Synanon and they were all pretty screwed up, some still on drugs, and none who really understood addiction.
	www.pahealthsystems.com /message379043.html (1578 words)

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