Familiar words. My ex-wife was slowly and deliberately turned on me. She was, as I said, fairly mixed up before, but this counsellor who was just doing the hard sell for an LGAT basically drove every wedge he could between us. She turned on me so badly: just wouldn't trust me. Decided that I was the obstacle in her life. The thing that makes me real dirty is that instead of questioning
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

How do LGATs actually get you talking their language? This is something that amazes me - people go to a couple of sessions and then they use the same words in every conversation. Do we understand how or why? Is it just suggestible people or anyone?
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Mate, This kind of crap made my slightly unhinged ex-wife go totally full on bonkers and try out prostitution. Obviously, she already had issues otherwise she wouldn't have fallen into this junk - but she would NEVER have done that in her normal mental state. She just went psychotic for a month. We spoke to a shrink - she told us it's normal after attending LGATs. Not very surpris
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Thanks for that.... She has no memory of anything untoward. Just lots of weird memories of childhood. As if her parents were themselves cult-members. This is why I am grappling with trying to understand what came first: chicken or egg. The family was DEFINITELY dysfunctional. The father IS definitely still in love with her. THey created all sorts of secrets, family rules, pushed away her fr
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Hi, I'm in a strange position. My ex-wife exhibits many of the symptoms of a sexual abuse survivor. Before she first went to the Hoffman counsellor, she had gone through a transformation of personality every time she saw her parents: becoming detached, distant, obsequeious, losing all self-confidence and becoming depressed. Then it got worse. She has been through all of the usual
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Don't go out with someone. At whatever cost, don't let these people into your life. They are like cockroaches or ants: controlled by some fat gross queen; not knowing what they're doing just reproducing endlessly. Lock the door. Close the shutters; and live your life without this. Life is too short to waste it.
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I was recommended to this evil junk by a friend. We were looking for a therapist. One of her friends had done Hoffman; and she said they thought it was great. Just wait until we explain to her what the truth is: how embarrassed is she going to feel? Anyone who knows what the critics say about these cults; and still recommends it to their friends is no friend. If they weren't brainwashe
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Hi, I am trying to understand whether to loathe or pity the evil bitch that screwed our lives up and has made my ex-wife terrified to open the door. She's a professional with Hoffman. She used all of the manipulation techniques - just horrible. But...is she in it for the money'? Or has she fallen for the cult; and does she think it's OK to use those techniques?
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Mate, I am very intelligent, cynical, and well adjusted. I knew all about cults. I knew when I first met the therapist there was something fishy about her. I didn't know what; and didn't know that LGATs could be cults. I had no idea. I thought it was easy entertainment for gullible people. Well...I ended up with no sense of self confidence, urging my ex-wife (thanks to Hoffm
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Hi, I am massively freaked out. A friend recommended Hoffman as my wife was a bit crazy and her parents were at the root of the trouble. I cannot say too many details because I am very nervous. Long and short, we ended up stupidly believing that the 'teacher' was a normal psychotherapist. I had a BAD BAD feeling, but for various reasons we persisted; and in the end I believ
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