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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| 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 private company that delivers self-improvement and personal development coursework.
History
Founded in 1973 by Thomas Wilhite and Jane Wilhite, the company is presently based out of Lake County, California. Jane Wilhite is the current president of PSI Seminars, and appears in public as a motivational speaker. Jane and Thomas Wilhite also founded the non-profit PSI World in 1973. According to Philanthropic Research Inc., PSI World and PSI Seminars operate from the same address in Clearlake Oaks, California. The company offers a course solely for women, which was described by Keller as a "women's leadership seminar", in The Cult of the Born-Again Virgin. The female participants in their seminar referred to their instructor as a "magnificent female guru".
Analyzed in secondary sources
Vahle's The Unity Movement cited PSI Seminars as one of nine growth organizations that grew out of Mind Dynamics. Other notable groups cited by Vahle included Erhard Seminars Training, The Forum, and Lifespring. Stich and Russell also compared the organization to EST, writing that it was "an EST type self-awareness and motivational organization.".
PSI Seminars has also been cited by authors of books on self-improvement, including Extreme Success, and Jack Canfield's The Success Principles(TM). The coursework of PSI Seminars was also analyzed in a 1983 study in the academic journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 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. Philips described PSI World as a self-help program, and characterized Thomas Wilhite as a "pop psychologist". His work, Living Synergistically, published by PSI World, was cited in Kraft's Ways of the Desert. On federal court order, psychologist Margaret Singer attended seminars held by PSI World. Singer characterized the organization as a form of Large Group Awareness Training.
See also
References
- Company Web site, "PSI's History.", retrieved 09-05-2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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) - ^ 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) - ^ 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) - ^ 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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