Dangerous Persuaders

Penguin Books

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 published Samways's book Dangerous Persuaders in 1994.

Samways included comments on Landmark Education

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 in her book on personal development

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 courses and cult

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s, Dangerous Persuaders. Preserving professional and scientific detachment, she made no claim to confirm or deny observation of Landmark Education programs first-hand; she stated that her book:

evolved ... from thousands of personal stories told to me over many years by my patients and people attending my seminars and lectures. I have mentioned the names of groups and courses only where I have heard similar and consistent stories from many separate sources."

Samways goes on to list particular areas of concern:

"The courses I worry about particularly are those attempting dramatic change in short periods of time, such as Landmark Education

Landmark Education

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, EST

Erhard Seminars Training

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, Forum

Erhard Seminars Training

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, Money & You and Hoffman Process, for they are misusing the psychological techniques allied to hypnosis in order to make the behavioural changes.

Books/Publications

• Your Mindbody Energy Viking O'Neil/ Penguin 1992. Full text available at author's web site.
• Dangerous Persuaders: An expose of gurus, personal development courses and cults, and how they operate, Penguin: 1994; currently out-of-print ISBN 0-14-023553-1. Full text available at author's web site, updated 2006.
• The 12 Secrets of Health and Happiness, Penguin Books
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   1997, ISBN 0-14-026591-0. Full text available at author's web site.
• The Chemical Connection, Penguin Books
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  , 1990. Full text available at author's web site.
• The Non-Toxic House, McCulloch/Green Press 1991. Full text available at author's web site.
• United we stand, divided we fall, Kelpie Press, 1999

The author's web site also includes articles, with full text available.

External links

• Inside the cults of mind control, Sunday Age, Melbourne
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  , 3 April 1994, Gary Tippet
• Review of Dangerous Persuaders, Cults and Society, 2001
• The politics of ‘New Age’ cults, Vera Butler, Australian Rationalist, No. 51
• Louise Samways's personal web site