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Name
  
Louise Samways

Role
  
Psychologist

Occupation
  
Psychologist Author, Dangerous Persuaders

Books
  
Dangerous persuaders, Your Mindbody Energy

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Louise Samways works as a psychologist and writer in Melbourne in Australia.

Contents

Dangerous Persuaders

Penguin Books published Samways's book Dangerous Persuaders in 1994.

Samways included comments on Landmark Education in her book on personal development courses and cults, 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, EST, Forum, 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 1997, ISBN 0-14-026591-0. Full text available at author's web site.
  • The Chemical Connection, Penguin Books, 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.

    References

    Louise Samways Wikipedia
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