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Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional family life.

At the Sullivan Institute, psychotherapy became a potent form of social control.

The sinister story of a psychotherapeutic sex cult that existed almost entirely in secrecy on the Upper West Side of NYC, where members were encouraged to have sex every night

"The Sullivanians," by Alexander Stille, is the riveting and troubling story of a psychoanalytic cult founded in 1950s New York.

In the sixties and seventies, the Sullivanian Institute had a winning sales pitch for young New Yorkers: parties, sex, low rent, and affordable therapy.