Sandra Barty research collection on Synanon, 1945-2004.

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Sandra Barty research collection on Synanon, 1945-2004.

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This collection consists of the doctoral research materials that Sandra Barty collected on the utopian community, Synanon, in southern California. It includes two dissertations, a comprehensive Synanon manual, primary and secondary source material about Synanon and other utopian societies, and many photographs.

4.91 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623960

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Synanon (Foundation)

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Synanon was founded by Charles Dederich, Sr. in 1958; originally named TLC (Tender Loving Care Club), the group was renamed Synanon and had its headquarters in Santa Monica, CA; Synanon's detoxification therapy attracted wealthy drug and alcohol abusers, and eventually the organization became a $30 million nonprofit organization; chapters sprang up in San Francisco, Tulare and Marin Counties, Detroit, and as far as Germany and Malaysia; Dederich declared Synanon a religion in 1974; Dederich was ...

Barty, Sandra

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Sandra Barty was a part-time member of Synanon from 1967 to 1970 and a full-time Synanon resident from 1970 to 1990. She received a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from the Union Institute and University Graduate College (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 2003. Synanon was founded by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich in 1958 as a drug rehabilitation center. In the 1960s, it transformed into an alternative community and eventually became known as the Church of Synanon, infamous for r...

Dederich, Chuck, 1913-1997

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