THE TUNNEL BACK: SNANON, By Lewis Yablonsky

Abstract

Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, a sociologist, author of "The Violent Gang," and a former president of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, studied Synanon for three years. "The Tunnel Back" is his description and analysis of this community of former drug addicts and criminals, which has become a social movement of national significance. Dr. Yablonsky
writes as biographer, historian, observer, analyst of the therapeutic methods, and social critic dealing with a social problem. Primarily, however, he deals with the solution rather than the problem. As this review is written for "Group Psychotherapy" a journal concerned with treatment, attention will be focused on this area.