Zack Bonnie's Blog: TTI Book CEDU DIJ

Celebrate 2 years since "A CEDU Memoir" was published. Anticipate the release of the sequel entitled "Overwritten!" Watch the process as galley copies are produced and offered this fall! (2017)
So.
Another Ebook giveaway is on through this weekend. 8/25- 829
We're scheduled to publish the follow-up book in December. Thanks to all the giveaway winners and readers here at Goodreads.
-zb

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015YNZ6TC

That link will give you all [Everyone World-wide] a download of my first book. It has frequently been at #1 in it's category (like now!) and has been top ranked at Amazon for all or most of the year. This non-fiction piece also garnered a National Indie Excellence Award this year.
Hurry though! Only 4 days left for you to get the e-book for FREE!

I'm here to toot my horn, and reach fresh readers. Dead, Insane, or in Jail was named for the range of options that were threatened, for leaving the outrageous atmosphere that trapped us as kids.

Please go to Amazon now, and help yourself to a book that could inform and illuminate details about the U.S. troubled teen (and/or parent) industry.
Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir

Beginning Today: a special price break is on at Amazon for Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir. This week, please do pass the following link around. Inviting and informing people shouldn't make me feel slimy- I cannot reach more people without reaching out to more people.
Here: http://amzn.to/1JrnH95

Include yourself by using the link, and shelve a copy now. 7/24/16 -zb
(The book has won an Indie award. At the moment I'm a hard-working recluse writing about thought-reform and the dynamics of social conformity. So, you see the contradiction.)

It is a great honor to be in the Virginia Festival of the book this year. I'm not John Grisham, who will be presenting later today. But I will have my own presentation a few doors down, and hopefully sell some books this marvelous Spring weekend.
This brings me to the next point which is the near impossibility of reaching through the laws of randomness, the attention of the social scientists I'd most like to know this book! Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir

If you want a LIGHT, brainless, or romantic read, you will probably NOT enjoy Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir, nor the upcoming sequel.

But here's the link to my giveaway here at www.goodreads.com
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
And the IndieGogo campaign that is %90 funded for DIJ: Overwritten: https://igg.at/me/dij2

http://igg.me/at/dij2
This is for the March Indiegogo campaign for my sequel to DIJ: A CEDU Memoir!

I intend to give away copies of the first E-book in the DIJ series to virtually anyone from Goodreads that emails me. It might make some people uncomfortable, it took a ton of hard work to make institutionalized persuasion accessible to you readers, but this is the way it was.

Wording it, editing it, publishing it, promoting it, and continuing it, takes everything I have. And I have the best team! See www.deadinsaneorinjail.com for more. Thanks. -zb

Through MARCH only!
At hand is a chance for you to get caught up, see what the fuss is about, and support a meaningful project. An Indiegogo campaign to produce "Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten" just began!
http://igg.me/at/dij2

People adding my title to Currently Reading- the juice that keeps me nourished.

If our biosphere of media is too much for you, take a haunting voyage back to the wholesome '80's in my book...ok, maybe not wholesome, but certainly eye-opening- er- eye-popping to some. Not for the faint of heart! This necessary write was accurately composed, and equipped to travel. Add if not "enjoy!"
Get it on Amazon, or from

www.deadinsaneorinjail.com/store and support this Indie doer.

In upcoming months I will be reading with great interest several books applicable to my field of experience. I will catalog my thoughts here as time allows.

Check back after my book is launched for my first thoughts about Paul Morantz's books about Synanon and "Institutionalized Persuasion" by Marcus Chatfield.

Please do send along pertinent information such as links, books, articles, and documented experiences about the aptly named "Troubled Teen Industry."
-zb

INTRODUCTION:
For the reader unfamiliar with CEDU Educational Services, and the schools it has influenced CEDU’s name, pronounced "see-doo," suggests the educational method that ostensibly guided the
for-profit schools.
Although the schools explained the acronym as “See yourself as you are and do something about it,” history indicates the initials first stood for Charles E. Dederich University, in honor of the founder of Synanon, who strongly influenced CEDU’s founder: Mel Wasserman was a California businessman.
The CEDU organization was founded in 1967 as CEDU Educational Services, Inc., and was acquired in 1998 by Brown
Schools, Inc., under the name CEDU Education - Brown Schools, Inc. CEDU and Brown Schools closed and declared bankruptcy in 2005, thereby managing to sidestep final financial settlements in a number of lawsuits claiming student mistreatment, employee sexual abuse, and deceptive practices.
Universal health Services
subsequently re-opened some of these schools, as “behavioral health centers.”
The CEDU schools are generally credited with establishing a new kind of boarding school for "troubled teens" drawing on Synanon’s “encounter group” techniques and using interrogation practices, counselors applied what became known as “tough love” to force change on their teenaged charges.

The two and a half year program included some academic subjects, and many labor assignments at the school’s farm, woodlot, and buildings and grounds. The schools featured extended “raps” - highly confrontational groups derived from Synanon’s “The Game” - and “propheets” - overnight sessions of extreme stress, reputedly based on the
teachings of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet.
Rocky Mountain Academy (“RMA”) opened in 1982 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, more than ten years after its sister school named CEDU, opened in Running Springs, California. Mel Wasserman founded them
both. In later years, more CEDU schools were added, including CEDU middle School, Boulder Creek Acade-
my, Northwest Academy, Ascent Wilderness Program, Daytop Village and Milestones.

School of Urban and Wilderness Survival (“SUWS”) was founded in southern Idaho in 1981 as a therapeutic wilderness program for youth aged 14 to 18. A north Carolina program began in 2000. The
SUWS programs became part of Aspen Education Group’s portfolio of private teen facilities. Now owned by
Bain Capital, Aspen has divested many of their schools and programs, including SUWS Idaho, citing reduced
demand.

Synanon was founded in Santa monica, California in 1958 by Charles E. Dederich, Jr., as a behavior modification facility for addicts. Mel Wasserman was an early member of the organization. He left Synanon, he founded CEDU. Initially, Synanon was a two-year treatment program, but over time its leaders changed the organization’s mission, declaring that members could never leave the program, as addiction could never be completely cured or reversed. Forced to close in the United States 1989 after problems with the IRS, the organization still exists in Germany.

Additional for-profit schools and programs claiming to provide therapeutic interventions continue to draw in families concerned about their teenagers.
For links to more information, consult the Resources page on the website: www.DeadInsaneOrInJail.com
-zb