10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNANON»
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The rise and fall of
Synanon: a California utopia
Based on extensive primary sources and interviews with former members, The Rise and Fall of Synanon explores how the institution evolved in the context of American social, political, and economic trends.
Rod A. Janzen, Center for American Places, 2001
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American National Biography: Supplement 2
The term is said to come from one of the participating addicts who “stumbled over
the words seminar and symposium, gave up and called them synanon” (quoted
in Van Gelder, p. 369). Synanon's history is typically divided into three parts.
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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in ...
Synanon is not called down by ministers for licentiousness but by city officials for
zoning violations. The context is different, but many of the commitment
mechanisms are the same. Charles Dederich is the visionary behind Synanon.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 1972
4
The New Religious Consciousness
For example, dues for membership in a Synanon game club have varied over the
years from a high of ten to twenty dollars a month to a low of a penny a month.
Synanon's game clubs have always been a bargain in the human-growth market.
Charles Y. Glock, Robert Neelly Bellah, 1976
Synanon was established in the fall of 1958 in Santa Monica, California, by
Charles E. ("Chuck") Dederich, a former alcoholic. He founded Synanon with a
$33 unemployment check. By 1963, however, Synanon Foundation, Inc., was
spending ...
putting the bite on you to turn over all of your property to the Synanon Foundation
. So I got real tired of all of these intimidating tactics and said, the hell with this, I
can do this at home. I asked to leave, but the Synanon authorities put up such ...
Roy Porter, David Keller, 1995
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Confessions of a Criminologist: Some of My Best Friends Were ...
After a year long courtship Donna and I were married in Reno Nevada--at the
same time Synanon was opening up a new Synanon House in Reno and an
innovative project in the Nevada State Prison. Some of Synanon's ex-addicts
showed a ...
Lewis Yablonsky Ph. D, 2010
8
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
diets annually in Therapeutic Communities, if he and Synanon had not detoured
along the way through Utopian commune, religious cult, and, finally, attempted
murder. On warm nights in Ocean Park, California, in the mid-fifties, Dederich and
...
Time, Inc. paid $2 million to defend itself against Synanon's libel suit. See Fred
Barbash, "Alton Telegraph Libel Judgment Sends Fearful Message to Press,"
Washington Post, 25 August 1981. In the 1970s, Synanon sued the American ...
Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey, 2011
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Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism
The Marin grand jury had checked out Synanon in 1976 and actually criticized
the county's probation department for not sending young delinquents there for
rehabilitation. Note was taken of runaways from its compounds, but Synanon's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYNANON»
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synanon is used in the context of the following news items.
Ausbildungsserie: Auf der Suche nach talentierten Berliner Lehrlingen
Bei der Suchtselbsthilfe-Gemeinschaft Synanon haben alle Azubis solch einen gebrochenen Lebenslauf: Bis zu 130 Bewohner leben auf dem idyllischen Gut ... «Berliner Morgenpost, Mar 15»
Joe Pass Sounds of Synanon
THE post-war years of jazz were set alight by the explosion of bop: the astonishing new sounds of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, ... «Morning Star Online, Mar 15»
Dying To Be Free
At Synanon, sobriety was achieved not just with mutual support but through mob-directed brainwashing. If an addict broke the rules, he faced public humiliation, ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
Hartz IV für die Suchtkranken-Selbsthilfegemeinschaft
Das Leben in einem Haus der Berliner Synanon-Stiftung entspricht der Unterbringung in einer stationären Einrichtung. Es schließt eine Verfügbarkeit auf dem ... «Rechtslupe, Dec 14»
Robert Drew's Portrait of a Jazz Trumpeter
Its title character is David Allen, a young jazz trumpeter who has checked himself into Synanon House, a communal drug-treatment center in Santa Monica, ... «The New Yorker, Nov 14»
O'Reilly: Msgr. William B. O'Brien, a man on a mission
Msgr. O'Brien and two others borrowed radical notions from an experimental California drug treatment program called Synanon that had wandered into utopian ... «Newsday, Nov 14»
Doris Gambonini, a ranch woman who comforted Synanon refugees …
But there was one neighbor—the Church of Synanon, the infamous rehabilitation center turned cult—that became an alarming part of their family life in the ... «The Point Reyes Light, Sep 14»
Joining a Cult Might Be Bad for Your Diet
The California-based cult Synanon, for example, was initially founded as a residential recovery center for alcoholics by Charles “Chuck” Dederich in 1958. In the ... «Munchies_ Food by VICE, Jul 14»
Daily Reads: Viola Davis on the Best Roles for African-American …
Kenny devoted some time to Haden's appearance in Richard Quine's 1965 film "Synanon," inspired by and set at the rehab facility of the same name where ... «Indie Wire, Jul 14»
Synanon's Sober Utopia: How A Drug Rehab Program Became A …
Many of Synanon's neighbours in Santa Monica weren't terribly excited to have a drug rehab facility in their neighbourhood. The Synanon members faced ... «Gizmodo Australia, Apr 14»
