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Is there any relationship between Synanon and Daytop ??

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Oscar:
For a start read Daytops own history page:


--- Quote ---In the 1950's, the public attitude was "once an addict, always an addict." Neither jail nor hospital stays seemed to make a bit of difference to an addicted person. Father O'Brien started researching other means of treating addiction. One of the places he looked at was Synanon. In 1958, Charles Dederich, himself a recovering alcoholic, started Synanon as a community of recovering people. This system was based on group encounters and addicts confronting each other, demanding self-revelation and responsibility.

Concurrent with Father O'Brien's search, a group of learned men from the Brooklyn Court system was on a similar quest.  Dr. Alexander Bassin, Chief Researcher for the Kings County Supreme Court Probation Department, was perturbed by the disheartening results of turnstile sentences given to addicts. Dr. Bassin's strength of purpose spurred his boss, Joseph Shelly; criminologist Herbert A. Block; and Dr. Dan Casriel, a consulting psychiatrist with the Brooklyn Court, to a nationwide search for an effective response to the addicts who showed up in their courtrooms. They also saw possibilities in Synanon.

By a fortuitous turn of fate, Father O'Brien and Dr. Casriel chose the same day to visit the Synanon intake center in Westport, Connecticut. What they saw there convinced them that they were on the right track.
--- End quote ---

From Wikipedia's page about Synanon there is a chapter called Lasting influence on the behavior modification industry where this link is placed.

I believe that Daytop's program is developed from Synanon just like CEDU's but in another direction. It is the same as with languages. People speak German, Danish, Swedish etc. but if they travel around in their own country they have difficulties understanding what their countryman tells them, but it is still their native lauguage which is spoken.

Inculcated:
The Origins of the Drug-Free Therapeutic Community
Frederick B. Glaser, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C) 1
 1 Addiction Research Foundation, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S1
ABSTRACT
In this paper an attempt is made to trace the origins of the drug-free therapeutic community. Virtually all such programmes in North America may be traced to Synanon, which in turn may readily be traced back through Alcoholics Anonymous to the so-called Oxford Group. At this point the line of evolution becomes less evident. But an examination of various aspects of the background and career of Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group, suggests a strong link with the Protestant Reformation and, through it, with the forms and practices of primitive Christianity as embodied in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is suggested that the present-day therapeutic community is only the most recent reincarnation of a particular type of religious organization which dates from at least the Intertestamentary Period. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour ... 1&SRETRY=0


(In search of an essential TC)”…traces a conceptual and organizational lineage of the modern TC programs beginning with the Oxford Group circa 1921,(Also named the Buchmanites or Moral Rearmament MRA,the final name to AA )  Synanon circa 1958 and Daytop Village circa 1963.
In the period of 1964-1971 TC programs were rapidly spawned directly and indirectly from Synanon and Daytop Village (including: Gatewood house, Gaudenzia, Marathon House, Odyssey House, Phoenix House, Samaritan and Walden House.

http://books.google.com/books?id=q7zlo_ ... &resnum=10

Inculcated:
http://www.weblo.com/property/real_esta ... Halloween/
“You can’t keep it unless you give it away”. I guess that goes for candy too.
Common Ground is a chimerical form of Daytop.  In this strain Halloween not only does exist, they celebrate it without calling it “Gaudenzia”. ::evil::

Inculcated:
In the begining there was Synnanon AND DAYTOP BEGAT ELAN....
http://www.bykevingray.com/stories/stor ... badcompany
An excerpt from Kevin Gray's article is as follows:
Once upon a time, when a very different Lord of the Flies haunted the classroom.

On a February morning in 1979, deep in the piney woods of Maine, 20-year-old Liz Arnold watched as a houseful of teens berated a weeping girl who'd just wet her pants. The girl's name was Kim. She was 17. Moments before, she'd been spanked with a paddle in front of the 100 fellow delinquents and drug addicts—more than two thirds of them men—who made up the student body of the Elan School, a therapeutic community of last resort that, during its seventies heyday, may have been something far from therapeutic.

As the residents surged over the scuffed linoleum of the dining room, knocking over metal chairs, Kim curled into a ball. "You fucking bitch, fucking whore, fucking fuck-up!” Kim was enduring a "learning experience." She'd mouthed off to the school's senior residents, and at Elan in the seventies, this was the response. But the lesson was getting out of hand. "[We] were whipped into a mob," says Arnold, an ex-speed addict who'd arrived at Elan in 1978 after a phony suicide attempt forced her affluent Ridgewood, New Jersey, parents to seek professional help. "It was brainwashing. People like Kim were gonna be junkies or hookers if we didn't make them get their shit together." Arnold soon added her voice to the eardrum-breaking sound of 100 young adults caught up in the adrenaline rush of anger. To an outsider, it must have looked like mad­ness, a Lord of the Flies outpost with castaways who were regularly dressed in tinfoil, diapers, and "hooker" skirts. Some had signs around their necks that read: I’M AN EMOTIONAL VAMPIRE or ASK ME WHY I’M A BABY or CONFRONT ME AS TO WHY I’M A WHORE. All were red with rage. "Kim," Arnold recalls, "was semi-catatonic."

SEKTO:
Is there any relationship between Synanon and Daytop ?  Is the Pope Catholic?

http://books.google.com/books?id=O4l7yR ... =2#PPA4,M1

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