The rise and fall of Synanon : a California utopia / Rod Janzen.
Janzen, Rod A.; Center for American Places.
2001
HV5800 .J36 2001
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Title The rise and fall of Synanon : a California utopia / Rod Janzen.
Author Janzen, Rod A.
ISBN 0801865832 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Language English
Description ix, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV5800 .J36 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.29/386/09794
Note "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Harrisonburg, Virginia"--P. opposite t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.
Added Corporate Author Center for American Places.
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The coming of the squares
Integration and the game
The Synanon school
Dopefiends and squares
Communal art, re-creation and a new religious identity
Violence and shaved heads
The end of childbirth and changing partners
Legal issues and materialism
A period of darkened light
The final years
Reasons for the decline
Synanon people on the outside.

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