The Sullivanians Sex Psychotherapy And The Wild Life Of An American Commune Alexander Stille by Alexander Stille 9780374600396, 0374600392 instant download after payment.

Dismantling the nuclear family—& monogamous marriage—would free kids from the repressive forces of their parents. The movement attracted many brilliant people as patients, including the painter Jackson Pollock & a swarm of other artists, the singer Judy Collins, & the dancer Lucinda Childs. By the 1960s, it had become an urban commune of hundreds of people, with patients living with other patients, leading a creative, polyamorous life. By the mid-1970s, under the leadership of its cofounder Saul Newton, it devolved from a radical communal experiment into an insular cult, with therapists controlling virtually every aspect of their patients’ lives, from where they lived to how often they saw their children. 

Although the group was highly secretive, even after its dissolution in 1991, Alexander Stille has reconstructed the inner life of this hidden parallel world. Through countless interviews & personal papers, The Sullivanians reveals the nearly unbelievable story of a fallen utopia in the heart of New York City.