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CEDU Educational Services, Inc., known simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo), was a company founded in 1967 by Mel Wasserman and associated with the troubled teen industry.
Jun 8, 2020 · The controversial Cedu School had roots in the violent cult Synanon, as explored on the podcast “Lost Kids” and Oxygen’s “Deadly Cults.”
- Erik Hawkins
Jul 19, 2022 · CEDU was the brainchild and was founded in 1967 by Mel Wasserman and his wife Brigitta. The company owned and operated several therapeutic boarding schools and behavior modification...
Dec 23, 2019 · An Illinois freelance journalist was inspired by his personal experience at CEDU — widely recognized as the flagship enterprise of the "troubled teen boarding school" industry — to undertake an investigation of that facility. In 2018, he published an in-depth 16,000-word history of CEDU and its offshoots on Medium.com.
What is CEDU? CEDU, initially understood as "see yourself as you are and do something about it," later revealed as the Charles E. Diederich University, is a derivative of the Synanon cult – of which Diederich was the leader.
Mar 1, 2023 · Emerging in the mid-1960s deeply connected to the self-help cult, Synanon, CEDU marketed itself by Daniel Yuen's era as “the nation’s first emotional growth boarding school.” However, this...
Surviving Cedu, tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a...
