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Synanon|ˈsɪnənɒn|
[See quot. 19652 for the supposed origin.]
The name of a U.S. foundation concerned chiefly with the rehabilitation of drug addicts through group therapy; also (with lower-case initial) the method of psychotherapy practised in its centres (see also quot. 1963). Freq. attrib.
1961Time 7 Apr. 33/1 Synanon offers more than a few cures. Ibid., The Synanon system cannot work until the addict really decides..to kick the habit. 1963Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. LXIX. 135/1 The free, unrestricted interaction in small groups called ‘synanons’. 1965L. Yablonsky Tunnel Back p. viii, Synanon is a community of former addicts and criminals. Ibid., The word ‘synanon’ originated with a newly arrived addict... In his attempt to say two ‘foreign’ words, ‘symposium’ and ‘seminar’ in the same breath, he blurted out ‘synanon’. Ibid. vi. 137 The small-‘s’ synanon is the group psychotherapy of the total Synanon social structure. 1969Guardian 16 Aug. 7/3 Synanon's communities are not unlike Socialist communes... Everything is free, everyone ‘mucks in’. Ibid. 21 Aug. 8/4 Spinrad's latest novel..examines the process by which psychotherapy has become a religious experience, spawning synthetic cults like scientology..and the Synanon game. 1976J. Rowan Ordinary Ecstasy iv. 44 The essence of the Synanon approach is direct aggressive confrontation of the one group member by one or more other members. |