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    Pr sav company | The Elan Sche backstory the elan school ‘wouild make him sch, Buti wasn't until he met Davidson, a psychiatrist and Harvard lecturer, that hhefound his true calling his ovn full-blown thera peutic community where he could implement his pavticularbrand ofin your face psychotherapy. The ‘lan School opened forbusiness on May 3,972. Re was soon ministeringtothenations hardest of ard tuck cases many of whom were provided {or with state money), addicts and criminals who'd bounced rom ails to group homesto hospitals to rehaband backagain. Alongside these felons Ric ‘welcomed refugees from Ameries’saluentsub- Lurbs-kids whose socal rebellion had led them from Hendrix heroin, Youngsters from Haslem slums worked out their pain with the children of C£0s ftom Chieago’s wealthy North Shore. After the first year, lan had 4ovesidents. ici was soon presiding over student body in ‘which esidents were zegulaly shouted down by dozens oftheir peers. ‘ve neverseen asponge likeyoa."*You ve ben a parasite alu if" Meat ‘hi, Rc duginto the emotional cove ois ta: ges“ you did't come hee, you'd bein mental Institution” he would gol. "People weren't put cnearthtoaccommodte you.” “Joe was Doberman, says Everett Dalit, eme dnus professor of psychiatry at Now York's Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine, who refered several Han patients inthe seventies. "Hel sa, Now, you Jstentowhatl'mgoingtotell you.asshole Recaise $s gonnasiveyourworthles piece-of-shit ie” “Joe was very challengingin gps” adds Stat Berry, who entered Elan asa 20-year-old junkie on copeningdayand becameits fist gadateinso72;he briefly became therapeutie diectrthe following ear. “There were some pretty had guy: he needed themto understand their fade was’ working” Berry was a typical Elan elite: white, middle «lass, and strung aut from “living on the lunatic fringe" of the sixties. grandson of aCape Cod phacmacist, he'd found his way into Grandpa's ‘medicine locker after a book on the Hell's Angels triggered his curiosity. Drugs tumed out to bes _geat chases for youthiulalienation, Butas Beny soonleazned, Ricci hadhis own awe Jor apathy: It began with havd work and peer pres sure, using the strict hierarchy of military outfit "Newcomers toiled on kitchen and grounds crews, ‘working their way through the ranks, from "ram appalled. Students were suited up with he and sixteen-ounce gloves, Then the entire ‘would form human ringas the bully was dukeit out with four or five people in ao defeated. “There would be blood, there w crying there would be cheering,” says Cin bins, suburban-Chicago runaway and ‘truant who entered Elan in 3982, at the age Jot of people were just alraid. But it's not “THERE WOULD BE BLOOD, THERE WOUL BE CRYING, THERE WOULD BE CHEERING, AFORMER RESIDENT SAYS OF “THE RING ods” (crew foremen) to department heads to expeditors (who acted asa secret police that “booked incidents" of bad behavior on notepads), and, finaly, coordinators, who were charged with, ‘overseeing such house activities as group therapy. ‘The goal was responsible citizenship.” says Dulit, who remains committed to such tactics "It's fighting fire with fie, These are people who have

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