Tag: Saul Newton

Inside the Upper West Side cult that told members to sleep with anyone who asked

Published August 6, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged New York, Saul Newton, sex cult, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians, therapy cult

Saul Newton wanted to be a good father, so he granted his grown daughter Esther’s wish: When her female friends came to his office for therapy, he promised he would no longer ask those women for oral sex. He wasn’t…[Continue Reading...]

Secretive Manhattan cult is blamed for iconic artist Jackson Pollock’s death by encouraging alcoholic painter to drink and cheat on his wife with beautiful muse who survived drunken crash that killed art star

Published July 3, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, New York, Saul Newton, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians, therapy cult, Upper West Side

Famed modern artist Jackson Pollock's car crash death has been blamed on a New York cult that encouraged the alcoholic painter to hit the bottle and cheat on his wife. The cult, also known as the Sullivanians, advocated alcohol use…[Continue Reading...]

Sex, Analysis, and 40 Communal Apartments on the Upper West Side

Published July 1, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult, New York, Saul Newton, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians, therapy cult

There were a number of things that might have attracted a person to the Sullivan Institute, the maverick psychoanalytic practice and cult that flourished on the Upper West Side from 1957 until its acrimonious dissolution in 1991: the twin promise…[Continue Reading...]

‘We were psychologically, spiritually, and morally raped’: Victims of obscure New York City SEX CULT that lured in members with promises of debauched parties and cheap rent reveal horrific abuse they were subjected as a form of new-age ‘therapy’

Published June 25, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse, cult, cult leader, Saul Newton, sex cult, sexual abuse, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians

Today, the Upper West Side is one of the wealthiest and most wholesome zip codes in Manhattan - yet just three decades ago, it was also home to an extremely closed-off and sordid sex cult that courted high-profile members and…[Continue Reading...]

The Upper West Side Cult That Hid in Plain Sight

Published June 14, 2023 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult, New York, Saul Newton, The Sullivanian Institute, The Sullivanians

Cults thrive in isolation, and this poses a challenge for the urban cult leader. Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, exerted an unsettling degree of influence on San Francisco politics of the late nineteen-seventies but was eventually forced to flee…[Continue Reading...]