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A history of the Sullivan Institute, a “communist psychotherapy sex cult” (p. 375) operating in Manhattan from 1957 to 1991.
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authoritarianism, child rearing, communes, cults, inter-personal relationships, political theater, psychotherapyPeople
Alice Graves, Artie Honan, Saul Newton, Jane Pearce, Amy B. Siskind, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara ThompsonPlaces
Amagansett, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)Times
mid 1950s to early 1990sShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
2024, Picador
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1250872499 9781250872494
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Sullivanians: Free Love, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of America's Largest Urban Commune
2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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0374600392 9780374600396
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Sullivanians: Free Love, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of America's Largest Urban Commune
2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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First Sentence
"Chris Pearce grew up in a the loud silence of his own mysterious origins."
Table of Contents
Contents
Page vii
Author's Note
Page ix
1.
A Parallel World
Page 3
I.
Precursors
2.
Origins
Page 19
3.
The Sullivan Institute and the World of Abstract Expressionism
Page 47
4.
The 1960s—A Time of Transition
Page 58
II.
The Group Gathers
5.
Transference
Page 81
6.
Breaking With Family
Page 99
7.
Strange Interlude
Page 123
8.
Group Living
Page 134
9.
The Secret History
Page 149
III.
Building the Fourth Wall
10.
The Kremlin and the Gang of Four
Page 169
11.
Three Mile Island
Page 194
12.
The Secret History, Part 2
Page 208
13.
The Security Squad
Page 215
14.
Paternity
Page 229
15.
The Children of the Fourth Wall
Page 245
16.
Having Children in the Group
Page 253
17.
The Defectors
Page 279
18.
The Unraveling
Page 303
IV.
The Fourth Wall Crumbles
19.
Aftermath
Page 331
20.
The Reckoning
Page 341
Coda
21.
The Kids Are (Mostly) All Right
Page 373
Sources
Page 411
Acknowledgments
Page 417
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