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Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

Behind the Bastards

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Synonon - A Psychotherapy Program in the 1970s

Sociologist Richard Offshie spent time in the organization studying it as a non-resident. By the early 1970s, some 3400 squares in California, New York and Detroit were paying cash to participate in games. It was the heyday of the human potential movement.

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