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Free Love, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of America's Largest Urban Commune

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An edition of Sullivanians (2023)

Sullivanians

Free Love, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of America's Largest Urban Commune

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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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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
Pages
418

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Subjects
authoritarianism, child rearing, communes, cults, inter-personal relationships, political theater, psychotherapy
People
Alice Graves, Artie Honan, Saul Newton, Jane Pearce, Amy B. Siskind, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson
Places
Amagansett, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Times
mid 1950s to early 1990s
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Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
2024, Picador
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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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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2023

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Library of Congress
RC489.T67 S75 2023

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Format
hardcover
Pagination
x, 418p
Number of pages
418
Weight
650 grams

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OL39733810M
ISBN 13
9780374600396

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