The Game: A Return to the Elan School, is the fifth book of my memoir series, and the story of the first book in this series, A Life Gone Awry: My Story of the Elan School. This book tells the history of the tough love industry from Synanon, to the Seed, to Elan and Straight Inc.as it is revealed to me by survivors in the aftermath of the closing of the Elan School. When I found Danny Bennison trolling an Elan survivor group pretending to be a survivor, the first thing I felt was fear. When the fear was resolved I confronted him and said he was one of Elan’s worst abusers, and that I had written a book about it. Danny and his friends laughed and said I would never find a publisher who would go up against Elan’s lawyers, and I agreed, so I self-published on Facebook and posted chapters as I wrote or edited them. From Synanon, to the Seed, to Elan and Straight Inc. a cult became a state sponsored industry. The Game asks and answers the question, “Who gave them permission to use this on mentally ill and autistic kids?” and digs for the stories of the people behind the scenes. Joe Ricci, Miller Newton and Mel Sembler are assured a public legacy as criminals and child abusers, but there were men in the background, never spoken about, and nobody can find information better than program survivors, so The Game is an indictment of those men in the shadows who masterminded this crime, and made billions of dollars. This is my story. This is our story. This is their story. This is an important part of our nation’s history. Thank you for your attention.