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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
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Notes From Your Bookseller
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A heady mix of '60s free love, communes, cults and radical shrinks gone rogue. Stille compellingly captures a dark zeitgeist of the era, recounting a tale of secrecy, manipulation, megalomania and how utopian social experiments can go very much awry.
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.
In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, believed that dismantling the nuclear family—and monogamous marriage—would free people from the repressive forces of their parents. In it...