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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...
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  • The Synanon Fix is an American documentary series directed and produced by Rory Kennedy. It explores the rise and fall of Synanon, told through the eyes...
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  • 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...
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  • Sounds of Synanon is the debut album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass. The album was recorded with patients at the Synanon Drug Center, where Pass was being...
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  • Born in Synanon is an American documentary series directed and produced by Geeta Gandbhir. It follows Cassidy Arkin as she searches to learn the truth...
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  • Synanon, founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich. By the late 1970s, Synanon had developed into a cult and adopted a resolution proclaiming the Synanon Religion...
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  • other members of the group. The method has been used by groups such as Synanon, Odyssey House, Excel Academy (Conroe, Texas), Straight, Inc., the John...
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    Awards. In 2024, Kennedy directed and produced The Synanon Fix a documentary series revolving around Synanon for HBO. In early 2024, Film Training Manitoba...
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    experimental commune society called Synanon. Until he was five, he and his older brother were raised apart from their parents in Synanon schools. Jollett's father...
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    for sexual misconduct by psychotherapists. His successful prosecution of Synanon led to an attempt against his life by means of a rattlesnake placed in...
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    measures enshrined in California's constitution failed. Influenced by the Synanon religious organization, Chavez re-emphasized communal living and purged...
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  • commercial. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the controversial organization Synanon operated a residential compound on nearby Dry Creek Road. Badger was in...
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  • troubled youngsters in Running Springs, CA whose origins were associated with Synanon, a group founded in 1958 and later described as a cult. Part of Hughes'...
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    himself into Synanon, a drug rehabilitation facility and cult in Los Angeles and successfully ended his heroin use. After leaving Synanon, he made a small...
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    the Synanon rehabilitation program, largely putting his music on hold during his prison sentence. Pass's released his studio debut Sounds of Synanon on...
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    Bailey produced and co-wrote The Synanon Fix, a documentary series for HBO Documentary Films revolving around Synanon. Bailey is the author of three books...
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    area of Bronx New York, Program Director and former resident of Synanon, California. Synanon was the only other drug rehabilitation program until Daytop Village...
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  • from Synanon, a cult founded in Santa Monica, California in 1958 by Charles E. Dederich. Mel Wasserman, the founder of CEDU, was a former Synanon member...
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    the lead in The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964) for Robert L. Lippert. After Synanon (1965), he had the lead in Stay Tuned for Terror (1965), shot in Argentina...
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    directed and executive produced Born in Synanon, a documentary series for Paramount+ revolving around Synanon. "Geeta Gandbhir On Being The Slightly Shrill...
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    Jimmy Stewart Show, and Gunsmoke, among others. Film appearances include Synanon (1965), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Gunn (1967), The Wicked Dreams...
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  • affiliated with the rehabilitation movement Synanon, which she credited with helping her beat her addiction. (Synanon was later described as one of the "most...
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    the Rain; Five Star Publications, 1995 "A NEW FILM ACTOR Alex Cord Gets 'Synanon' Lead After Life of Labor". The New York Times. September 18, 1964. Retrieved...
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  • treatment centers, which were strongly inspired by the psychotherapy cult Synanon. Daniel Harold Casriel was born in New York City on 1 March 1924. He graduated...
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  • Game", an all-sports FM radio station in Portland, Oregon The Game, in Synanon, a truth-telling session "The game", a principle espoused by the 20th-century...
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  • and Heaven's Gate; self-help networks and rehabilitation centers like Synanon (to which Montell has a personal connection through her father) and NXIVM;...
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    of Massachusetts, and then took a position at UCLA where he researched Synanon and became attracted to its tenets. He had learned about psychodrama from...
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  • troubled-teen industry, including techniques drawn from attack therapy and Synanon. She uses first-person accounts and court testimony in her research, and...
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  • the history of Synanon recounted Brace Belden's experiences at the Monarch School and described Patrick McKenna as a disciple of Synanon, with the school...
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    of Devil's Island Annette 1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin Singer Uncredited role Synanon Betty 1971 Up the Chastity Belt Scheherazade 1975 Friday Foster Madame...
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