The Manhattan Sex Cult That Wanted to Annihilate the Nuclear Family
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“The most tragic thing that happened to me in the group was that not too long after I got into it, my mother died, and they wouldn’t let me go see her,” says Janie P. Janie wasn’t kidnapped, jailed or held by force – at least not physically, she says. By “the group,” she means the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, where she was a residential patient in the late 1960s. Ostensibly a medical association that helped people with various psychological issues, Sullivan – founded and managed with a high hand for 34 years by a psychotherapist named Saul Newton – was actually a closed commune with its own methods and rules.
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