The following link can be used to access a recently published psychology PhD thesis, which uses LGATs to explain the link between bipolar triggers and symptoms. It explains how LGATs generate their "transformations", how these processes can be linked with common psychological casualties in LGATs (e.g. extreme mood swings and psychosis), and how other troubling behaviour is triggered by
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I noticed that the link to this thesis (from this site) no longer works. This is highly suspicious as the site's URL still works! Simply Google "Stress-induced hypomania in healthy participants: the allostatic manic-defence hypothesis" if you want to access the thesis. Very tricky dealing with LGATs and their minions.
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Dr Raymond Fowler is often mentioned by Landmark, and he personally endorsed them in 1999. (You can find this endorsement on the Landmark Worldwide site, and you can hear him being cited by one of the Forum leaders - Sophie Maclean? - in the 2004 French documentary). He was in senior positions at the American Psychological Association (APA) from at least 1983 - 2003, and was the CEO and execut
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Illustrated essay on the way that Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher were satirising the LGAT industry (Werner Erhard, est, The Forum, Landmark, and the Landmark Forum) in Fight Club:
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Corboy, these would be useful suggestions if those who were asked to attend such programs had any idea that these sorts of things existed. The trouble is that, as happened with me when I took part in an LGAT, I wouldn't have dreamed that the "training" was going to involve what it did. You assume that your employer is not involved with something like this and you assume that th
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I'm not sure of how to address the use of NLP by corporates, but the following extract from the PhD (pp. 294-295) provides a good argument for why employers can't compel employees to take part in LGATs: "Pressured LGAT participation is unethical for a host of reasons, but a key problem for employees is that it compels them to reveal psychological issues to employers. Landmark’s
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Hi there I didn't see you commenting on the other thread, but the following link can be used to access a PhD on LGATs by the same author: EG
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I haven't looked at that in a while, but thanks for dredging it up. There's a lot of overlap between that dissertation and the PhD... the PhD being a better structured document I would say. The one advantage of that master's paper is that it summarises various theories on brainwashing in the literature review and addresses some of the (misleading) criticisms of people like Dr S
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If my theory is correct then many of the ideas taken on by LGAT members are taken on as a result of classical conditioning, or associative learning. Essentially ideas are presented during the training and they become associated with the feelings of power, euphoria etc which are triggered at the end of the training. My view is that if these ideas were presented in a neutral environment they wo
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I think that, in understanding the biology of the "transformation" and the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours associated with this state, participants may feel more in control of what happened, particularly if this state resulted in impulsive behaviour that caused personal or professional problems. There's no reason to believe that, for most, there will be permanent biological harm
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I'm glad it was useful. It is a lot to get through, but it seems that it's accessible to people without any specific training in psychology. Hopefully those who have had positive LGAT experiences, or who advocate for these organisations, will read it and consider the information presented as well.
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Because thought reform is used as a framework through which to comment on stress-generation in LGATs, it is not specified in the table of contents. You can find the section on thought reform in LGATs on pages 200-288.
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The following link can be used to access a recently published psychology PhD thesis, which uses LGATs to explain the link between bipolar triggers and symptoms. It explains how LGATs generate their "transformations", how these processes can be linked with common psychological casualties in LGATs (e.g. extreme mood swings and psychosis), and how other troubling behaviour is triggered by
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