#106 The Sullivanians

This week we’re talking the about Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, founded by Saul Newton and his then wife, Jane Pearce, in 1957, as a progressive psychoanalytic training school named for one of Newton’s teachers,  a psychoanalyst by the name of Harry Stack Sullivan. However the Institute’s approach would go on to diverge radically from Sullivan’s own ideas. It attracted prominent artists, with its experimental vision of relationships suited to ’60s rebelliousness.

The Institute became widely known for its wild Saturday night parties and sexually free summer house in Long Island. Gradually, ex-members say, Newton’s iron grip transformed the group into a reclusive army.

“For years I followed Saul Newton’s orders,” reflects Bray. “I enforced Sullivanian rules about parent-children relationships. There was just one little problem. We fell in love with our kids.”

 

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Sources:

https://people.com/archive/two-anxious-fathers-battle-a-therapy-cult-for-their-kids-vol-30-no-4/

https://www.ranker.com/list/saul-b-newton-sullivan-institute-cult/jodi-smith

https://sites.psu.edu/tesskehoercl/2018/12/02/the-sullivanians/

https://books.google.com/books?id=XOcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=sullivanians+1989+New+York+Magazine+article&source=bl&ots=IFdQMBb5im&sig=9gTIMcGzzHJpDx8Bz-pESJDkFZA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUo7SF3KDPAhVGWh4KHbTMDhwQ6AEIODAE#v=onepage&q=sullivanians%201989%20New%20York%20Magazine%20article&f=false

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/07/27/cult-or-therapy-parents-at-war/617db5ff-00d3-4979-96a3-d484f9ca5397/