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.
The Sullivanians were a community made up entirely of therapists and their patients, a group that espoused the value of analysis, communal living, and non-monogamy.
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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