{"id":2166,"date":"2021-07-20T20:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:07:10","slug":"a-sassy-little-podcast-for-getting-over-it-with-sandra-ann-miller-cult-based-trauma-with-erin-coffin-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/a-sassy-little-podcast-for-getting-over-it-with-sandra-ann-miller-cult-based-trauma-with-erin-coffin-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sassy Little Podcast for Getting Over It with Sandra Ann Miller \u2013 Cult-Based Trauma with Erin Coffin Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sassy Little Podcast for Getting Over It with Sandra Ann Miller \u2013 Cult-Based Trauma with Erin Coffin Moore<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Phoenix House is a therapeutic community based on a now-defunct cult, Synanon. Erin Coffin Moore was placed in Phoenix House when she was 16. \u201cTough Love\u201d and institutionalizing \u201ctroubled\u201d teens were touted as solutions for parents in the 1980s and 90s. Adults (teachers, police, social workers) fail to listen or believe kids when trouble at home is noticed, or to follow up on their welfare. Where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire. Phoenix House had contracts with state and local governments to serve as a diversion program for juvenile offenders and yet no authorities were keeping a close eye on the abuses there for children 13-17, co-ed, run by adults who were unqualified, unlicensed and untrained. From 2-minute showers to free labor, to encounter groups called \u201cThe Game\u201d where berating a fellow \u201cfamily member\u201d was encouraged, as was ratting out others, including your family, abuse occurred daily. Ridicule was considered \u201ca tool\u201d, and so was hostility. Civil rights violations were rampant (those in the adult facilities would sue to go back to prison where they would be treated better). The place where Paris Hilton went was also based on Synanon. These places still exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>