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Synanon definition

☆ Syna·non (sin′ə nän′)

noun

  1. a method of group psychotherapy for treating narcotic addiction
  2. a group of inpatients undergoing such therapy

Etymology: after a treatment center founded (1958) in Santa Monica, Calif.: supposedly < a patient's slurred pron. of “symposium” & “seminar”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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