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Revision as of 03:09, 18 May 2007
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Self-help |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Thomas Wilhite, Jane Wilhite |
| Headquarters | Lake County, California United States |
Key people | Jane Wilhite, President and Chairman, BOD |
| Services | Personal development coursework |
| Subsidiaries | PSI World |
| Website | Company Web site |
PSI Seminars is a for-profit private company, that delivers self-improvement and personal development coursework.
History
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Founded in 1973 by Thomas Wilhite and Jane Wilhite, the company is presently based out of Clearlake Oaks, California[1][2]. Jane and Thomas Wilhite also founded the non-profit PSI World[3][4] in 1973[2].
Organization
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Jane Wilhite is the current president of PSI Seminars, and appears in public as a motivational speaker[2].
According to Philanthropic Research Inc., both PSI World and PSI Seminars operate from the same address in Clearlake Oaks, California[5].
Courses
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One course, offered by PSI Seminars, is solely for women, and was described by Keller as a "women's leadership seminar" [6]. The female participants in their seminar referred to their instructor as a "magnificent female guru"[6]. Some companies will pay for their employees to attend coursework at PSI Seminars[7].
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Vahle's The Unity Movement cited PSI Seminars as one of nine growth organizations that grew out of Mind Dynamics[8]. Other groups cited by Vahle as influenced by Mind Dynamics included Erhard Seminars Training, The Forum, and Lifespring[8]. Stich and Russell also compared the organization to EST, writing that it was "an EST type self-awareness and motivational organization."[9].
PSI Seminars has also been cited by authors of books on self-improvement, including Extreme Success[10], and Jack Canfield's The Success Principles(TM)[11]. The coursework of PSI Seminars was also analyzed in a 1983 study in the academic journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry[12]. The study examined the extent to which chronically ill members of the population in Hawaii sought out alternative methods of self care by utilizing nonprescribed treatment patterns[12]. Philips described PSI World as a self-help program, and characterized Thomas Wilhite as a "pop psychologist"[4]. His work, Living Synergistically, published by PSI World, was cited in Kraft's Ways of the Desert[13]. On federal court order, psychologist Margaret Singer attended seminars held by PSI World[14]. Singer characterized the organization as a form of Large Group Awareness Training[14][15].
See also
References
- ^ Company Web site, "PSI's History.", retrieved 09-05-2007.
- ^ a b c Carter-Scott, Cherie (2004). If Life Is a Game...These Are The Stories. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 252. ISBN 0740746847.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ PSI World Through contributing to PSI Seminars., retrieved 09-05-2007.
- ^ a b Philips, Stacy D. (2005). Divorce: It's All about Control. ExecuProv Press. p. 332. ISBN 0964888297.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Staff (December 15, 2004). "Accident ended a friendship". Lake County Record Bee, Lake County, California.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b Keller, Wendy L. (1999). The Cult of the Born-Again Virgin. HCI. pp. ii, 19, 269. ISBN 155874696X.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Staff (May 30, 1991). "Rancho Santiago offers bargain seminars". Orange County Register.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b Vahle, Neal (2002). The Unity Movement: Its Evolution and Spiritual Teachings. Templeton Foundation Press. pp. 399, 403. ISBN 1890151963.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Stich, Rodney (March 20, 2006). Disavow: A CIA Saga of Betrayal. Silverpeak Enterprises, Inc. pp. 206, 243. ISBN 0932438172.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Fettke, Rich (2002). Extreme Success. Simon and Schuster. p. 7. ISBN 0743233867.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Canfield, Jack L. (2005). The Success Principles(TM). HarperCollins. p. 447. ISBN 0060594888.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Snyder, Patricia (March 1983). "The use of nonprescribed treatments by hemodialysis patients". Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 7 (1). Springer Netherlands: 57–76. doi:doi 10.1007/BF00249999. ISSN 0165-005X.
{{cite journal}}: Check|doi=value (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Kraft, William F. (2000). Ways of the Desert: Becoming Holy Through Difficult Times. Haworth Press. p. 158. ISBN 0789008599.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b Intruding into the Workplace, Dr. Margaret Singer, 1995.
- ^ Singer, Margaret (1995). Cults in our Midst (book). Jossey Bass. pp. pp. 42-43. ISBN 0-7879-0051-6.
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