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WILLIAM W. CRESSEY University of Illinois Urbana...
...Look at Me." Such was the formal dedication of Synanon House a self-run, haphazardly financed experiment in human reclamation whose success has been hailed by Dr. Donald Cressey, University of California at Los Angeles sociologist, as "the most significant attempt to keep addicts off drugs that has ever been made...
...therapy methods of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Synanon system cannot work until the addict really decides that he wants to kick the habit; but after that, it promises critical discipline and confinement through the first bad days of withdrawal, followed by a psychological treatment that usually kills the desire. Dr. Cressey describes the psychology: "A group in which Criminal A joins with some noncriminals to change Criminal B is probably most effective in changing Criminal...
George B. Cressey, chairman of the department of Geology and Geography at Syracuse University will discuss Siberia in a public lecture at the Geographical Institute today at 8 o'clock...
...Tuesday, February 9 and deals with the environmental backgrounds of the major regions. Two illustrated lectures will be given on Wednesday, February 10, the first at 4 o'clock on "Three Chinese Communities", and the second at 8 o'clock on "The Chinese-Mongolian Borderlands". In the latter Professor Cressey will discuss the conflict around the great wall between nomad and agriculturist, and current political developments in the land where China, Japan, and Russia meet...