By Alia: 1990-1991 https://www.youtube.com/embed/kM9AFwPoJQU?si=MAGy0L8tqZmZYRrP&start=1

By Mark: 1978 I have recently written a book about my experience at Synanon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YKW8WGB The following is a bit from my final chapter where I explain how it started and developed. Synanon is often viewed as the product of Charles Dederich. While it is possible that Charles Dederich started Synanon on his own, I have [...]

By Gregory: 2007-2008 I was raised in a single parent household by my father. I had along of angst growing up, but I was never a bad kid; I just lacked parental supervision and guidance. My father trusted Vista to help guide me and put me on a path for success. Instead I entered into [...]

By Anonymous: 1995-1996 For now, I’d just like to state that I got to experience every type of abuse from day one, to having to be hospitalized via emergency room due to malnourishment and dehydration, enduring literal torture I never knew existed in the United States, and for a while thinking that death would be [...]

By Luke: 2020-2021 I’m giving my testimony to this, because I feel like I was mistreated in many different ways at Newport Academy. My time there was tumultuous because I experienced abuse by other clients of the facility and emotional abuse by the counselor and staff. I was repeatedly physically assaulted by other clients, and [...]