Synanon, initially a drug rehabilitation program, was founded by Charles "Chuck" Dederich Sr. (1913-1997) in 1958 in Santa Monica, California. By the early 1960s it had also become an alternative community, attracting people with its emphasis on living a self-examined life, as aided by group truth-telling sessions known as the "Synanon Game." Synanon ultimately became the cultish Church of Synanon in the 1970s and the group disbanded permanently in 1989 due to difficulties with the Internal Revenue Service.

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