A penetrating look at a community of ex-drug addicts who help one another through the exhausting experience of withdrawal and rehabilitation by using radical "haircutting" sessions in which members of the community probe their problems with savage candor.  Here are Synanon's successes - a rehabilitation rate far higher than those of more "legitimate" agencies - as well as its failures.  Here is a thoughtful and sympathetic analysis of Synanon's unique, and widely misunderstood, theories about addiction and its cure:  the use of ex-addicts in weaning away narcotics users, the lifelong effects of addiction and the resultant need for a supportive environment.  Here, too, is the troubled history of Synanon, both within the profession and with the greater society "outside" which all too often turns its back on the brutal facts of our nation's addiction problem.

The Tunnel Back: Synanon

YABLONSKY, Lewis

Macmillan

Criminology: Crime and Criminality

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harpercollins College Div

Profiles the legendary movie star, discussing his personal friendships, setbacks, and lifestyle

George Raft

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

McGraw

the story of Synanon, a community of ex-drug addicts who help one another through the exhausting experience of withdrawal and rehabilitation

Synanon: The Tunnel Back

Penguin??Books

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Hippie Trip (A Pelican book)

Profiles the legendary movie star, discussing his personal friendships, setbacks, and lifestyle

GEORGE RAFT.

A new, colorful, and fascinating drama has emerged on the American scene. The action involves love, spiritually free sex, dope as a religious sacrament, and a new work ethic. And so sociologist Yablonsky begins his novel, giving the reader an opportunity to join him on his hippie trip. Yablonsky delves into the hippie movement as a sociologist, a hip interviewer/reporter, and as an involved person. This book includes experiences and perceptions from all three of these integral facets of Yablonskys personality. Yablonsky combines an extensive, coherent report on hippie life with a thorough look at the movement in relation to the wider societal issues of the time. The book begins with a Preview, an introduction into the scene, and then moves onto The Trip, Yablonskys actual journey. Part III, Analysis, examines the hippie movement in its own right and within the framework of American society. Part IV, The Appendix, is a presentation of data from questionnaires filled out by over seven hundred hippies. And there is, of course, a Glossary for all of you readers who may not be familiar with the terminology of the psychedelic movement.

The Hippie Trip: A Firsthand Account of the Beliefs and Behaviors of Hippies in America By A Noted Sociologist

iUniverse

ablonsky, a sociologist and one of the foremost authorities in phychodrama, raises the book from ordinary show biz profiles to a penetrating insight into the relationship of personality to screen image, of character to social symbol. Like much about Raft, the book has class.?br&gt;?i&gt;Los Angeles Timeshe most roguishly appealing movie bio since Errol Flynn My Wicked, Wicked Ways.?br&gt;?i&gt;Kirkus Reviewshe story of my good friend George climb from the rowdy speakeasy clubs on Broadway in the twenties to the top of Hollywood stardom is an exciting American saga. Reading George biography by Lewis Yablonsky is the next best thing to being there.?br&gt;?i&gt;Frank Sinatra great story. George was an important and exciting star. When better men like George are madehen I'll make m.?br&gt;?i&gt;Mae West

[Buy this book now only at iUniverse.com bookstore. Order from bookstores everywhere in 4-6 weeks!] Much as Nancy Friday's My Mother My Self explored the mother-daughter bond, this book illuminates the emotional themes that surround the important relationship betyween fathers and sons in terms both practical and theoretical, both enlightening and moving. Drawing upon extensive case-history material, based on interviews with over 100 fathers and sons from a cross section of society, Yablonsky defines the various prototypes of each -- autocratic, egocentric, and distant fathers, compliant and rebellious sons; their interactions and interdependencies; their individual rights and duties and their obligations to each other ; the normal and pathological conflicts between them and how mothers and daughters can intervene constructively in such conflicts; the degree to which a father's status in the world can affect his son's aspirations -- and how a son's success or failure can affect his father; and other important dimensions of this complex relationship. Fathers and Sons is an important, definitive, highly useful guide for all men who want to improve their own such relationships and for the women who want to better understand the fathers and sons in their lives.

Fathers and Sons: Life Stages in One of the Most Challenging of All Family Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fathers and Sons

Studies the role of the father, recent changes in father-son interaction, the influence of this relationship on women, and the development of normal and abnormal generational conflicts

Psychology & Counseling

Simon&Schuster

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The Tunnel Back: Synanon

Criminology: Crime and Criminality

George Raft

Synanon: The Tunnel Back

Hippie Trip (A Pelican book)

GEORGE RAFT.

The Hippie Trip: A Firsthand Account of the Beliefs and Behaviors of Hippies in America By A Noted Sociologist

George Raft

Fathers and Sons: Life Stages in One of the Most Challenging of All Family Relationships

Fathers and Sons