Synanon: One of the Most Violent Cults of California in the 70s

Imagine driving in Marin County, you missed your turn, suddenly surrounded by a 40 - 50 shaved head, wearing a blue bib overalls, an axle handle, a stick, a baseball bat I shouted with. "Kill them, let's come over them!" It sounds like a horror movie. The term "cult" from Latin Cultus means religious worship and dedication to a specific image or object (Oxford English Dictionary). Dr. Robert J. Lifton, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at John Jay College and a graduate student at the City University of New York, defines the characteristics of cults as follows. 1) Charismatic leader increasingly becoming a subject of worship.

McLoone's 2010 - 2011 participation plan was based on a rehabilitation model called Synanon, invented by Charles "Chuck" Dederich of Santa Monica in 1958. The rehabilitation center is spin-off of alcohol based on special self-help - Dederich who participated in this event in 1956 - developed into a true social movement. Initially, Synanon was a blueprint for a clean life. But within 10 years, the seaside Utopia designed by Dederich became a fierce cult. In the 1970s Synanon became a fixed factor in the treatment of addiction in the United States in its strict attitude despite its being published as a "racquet of this century" including child abuse, illegal imprisonment, beatings, and misappropriation of funds It was. McLoone and other experts told me this is a dirty secret of rehabs

By the end of the 70's, the union's California state roots were popular psychological fruits. Chavez was often taken away by Cinanon, a rehabilitation center that changed her lifestyle, originally in Santa Monica. The advantageous work of Synanon is developed mainly on activities called "games". In this activity, members of the community attack each other through real or creative arguments. Even therapeutic work and even enlightenment - Synannon has declared itself as a religion - progressing through hot potatoes that are responsible to others. Chavez likes this game and I'd like to start practicing with La Paz. The union's problem is that the Labor Relations Act is to deprive its enemy - producers - he said nothing can be hammered, he said. If La Paz can become a model community like Cinanon, it can be bigger than a simple administrative agency. Mr. Chavez said, "If this alliance is not a sport, I do not want a part of it."

Personality worship lacking supernatural elements is often described as secular religion. For example, see objectiveism. Synanon is a dictatorial medicine treatment center, secular movement, recognizing the status as de facto religion, tried to legally reorganize the Synanon church in the mid-1970s. There are various kinds of non-religious Judaism. The extent of faith usually adheres to the law, faithfully defends the people born or involved only in the Jewish god and Jewish cultural elements, making it more like a country than religious identity. This is often referred to as "secular Judaism", "cultural Judaism" or "Jewish atheism".