Outrageous Betrayal
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 1993, Hardcover Edition |
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| Author | Steven Pressman |
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| Cover artist | Richard Oriolo, design |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Biography |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Released | September, 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 289 p. |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-09296-2 (hardback edition) |
Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile is a muckraking, investigative journalism biography of Werner Erhard by Steven Pressman. The book was published in 1993, by St. Martin's Press.
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[edit] Cited by other works
Bardini and Friedewald cite the book in their analysis of Erhard Seminars Training, in History of Technology[1]. Outrageous Betrayal is also cited in Anderson's The Next Enlightenment[2], Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs[3], Janja Lalich's Bounded Choice[4], Yalom's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy[5], Weiten's Psychology Applied to Modern Life[6], Weiner's Battling the Inner Dummy[7], Palm's The Great California Story[8], Milton's [9], and Lalich's Take Back Your Life[10].
In addition, Outrageous Betrayal is also cited in a 1995 report on the United States Department of Transportation, by the United States House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations[11].
[edit] Lawsuit over confidential sources
In 1998, Landmark Education spent months attempting to compel Steven Pressman to respond to deposition questions aimed at obtaining the confidential sources he used for research on Outrageous Betrayal[12]. The suit was brought under the pretext of compelling discovery for use in the then-active Cult Awareness Network litigation. However, Pressman concluded that the suit was brought primarily to harass him. The discovery commissioner who entered an interim order in the matter, commented that:
it does not appear that the information sought [from Mr. Pressman] is directly relevant or goes to the heart of the [CAN] action, or that alternative sources have been exhausted or are inadequate.
The action against Pressman was dropped after the Cult Awareness Network litigation was settled[13].
[edit] References
- ^ Bardini, Thierry & Michael Friedewald (2002), Chronicle of the Death of a Laboratory, vol. 23 (History of Technology ed.)
- ^ Anderson, Walter Truett (2003). The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution. St. Martin's Press, 254. ISBN 0312317697.
- ^ Jenkins, Philip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. Oxford University Press, 270. ISBN 0195127447.
- ^ Lalich, Janja (2004). Bounded choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults. University of California Press, 284. ISBN 0520231945.
- ^ Yalom, Irvin D. (1995). The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Basic Books, 584. ISBN 0465084486.
- ^ Weiten, Wayne; Margaret A. Lloyd (2005). Psychology Applied To Modern Life: Adjustment In The 21st Century. Thomson Wadsworth, 596. ISBN 0534608590.
- ^ Weiner, David L. (October 1999). Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People. Prometheus Books, 393, 397. ISBN 978-1573927475.
- ^ Palm, Carl (August 30, 2004). The Great California Story: Real-life Roots Of An American Legend. Northcross Books. ISBN 978-0975483213.
- ^ title Milton, Joyce (July 15, 2002). The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1893554467.
- ^ Lalich, Janja (May 30, 2006). Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships. Bay Tree Publishing. ISBN 978-0972002158.
- ^ United States Congress; House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations. (1995, digitized Aug 30, 2005). Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996, 834. ISBN 0160473527.
- ^ Introduction to the Landmark Education litigation archive, Peter L. Skolnik & Michael A. Norwick, Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, February 2006
- ^ Landmark Education Litigation Archive, Section: Pressman.
[edit] External links
[edit] Citations and excerpts
- Outrageous Betrayal: The dark journey of Werner Erhard from est to exile, August 1993, St. Martin's Press
- Chapter 4: A Door to Door Mind Salesman, from The Awareness Archives, copyrighted article is provided under U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT § 108.
- Chapter 7: Enlightenment in Two Weekends - The est Training, from The Awareness Archives, copyrighted article is provided under U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT § 108.
- The Cult Test, Questions 41 to 50, Excerpted sections of Outrageous Betrayal, relating to Werner Erhard and The Hunger Project.
- Werner's Uncertainty Principle, article/chapter is excerpted from Stripping the Gurus by Geoffrey D. Falk.
[edit] Litigation
- Introduction to the Landmark Education litigation archive, Peter L. Skolnik & Michael A. Norwick, Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, February 2006
- Landmark Education litigation archive, see section "Pressman".
[edit] See also
- Related Media
- Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous, France 3 documentary on Landmark Education
- Additional Werner Erhard Biographies
- Werner Erhard The Transformation of a Man: The Founding of EST by William Warren Bartley, III
- 60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used in an Attempt to Destroy a Man Who Was Making A Difference by Jane Self
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