But its more disturbing practices had passed unnoticed by the wider world until the Voice ran its exposé. The community, known formally as the Sullivanian Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, had been in existence for almost thirty years, over which time it had attracted some notable members, including Jackson Pollock, Richard Price and Judy Collins. The therapists had somehow persuaded several hundred well-educated ‘patients’ to give them almost total control over their lives: most sensationally their sex lives, but also their work, finances, friendships and children. I n April 1986, the Village Voice published a long piece about a cult-like community on New York’s Upper West Side led by a group of psychotherapists.
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