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Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in Santa Monica, California, United States. Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, Synanon developed into an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as ...
The couple claimed the wife had been held captive by Synanon, and during her stay, leaders at Synanon attempted to brainwash her. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] On October 10, 1978, Morantz was bitten by a rattlesnake placed in his mailbox, at his home in Pacific Palisades .
Synanon (a.k.a. Get Off My Back! ) is a 1965 American drama film directed by Richard Quine and starring Chuck Connors , Stella Stevens , Alex Cord , Richard Conte , Eartha Kitt and Edmond O'Brien .
Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey, the filmmakers behind HBO's docuseries "The Synanon Fix," spoke about the group, its followers and the dangers of blindly following a charismatic leader.
By the early 1970s, Synanon ran 14 facilities across the country in California, Texas, New York, Washington D.C., and Michigan, with more than 10,000 members, according to "The Synanon Fix."
“Born in Synanon” follows Cassidy Arkin, whose parents were prominent members when she was born in 1974, as she tries to make sense of the community that surrounded her for the first six years ...
Mel Wasserman, the founder of CEDU, was a former Synanon member. [9] According to Maia Szalavitz , author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids , "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 ...
After winning a $300,000 judgment against Synanon, a once respected drug rehab group that had devolved into a paranoid, paramilitary cult, the ice under his feet got even thinner.