| 11. | Fenwick writes that the est training draws influences from Synanon, Gestalt therapy, encounter groups, and Scientology.
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| 12. | But the Patriots are not some encounter group, and their Sunday gatherings are not therapy sessions.
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| 13. | Murphy recruited Will Schutz, the well-known encounter group leader, to take up permanent residence at Esalen.
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| 14. | Encounter groups are also controversial because of scientific claims that they can cause serious and lasting psychological damage.
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| 15. | "It's like an Appalachian encounter group.
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| 16. | It will be an encounter group,
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| 17. | The good thing is, you don't go in with the trepidation you might feel in an encounter group.
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| 18. | Will Schutz came to Esalen in the 1960s and worked on aspects of his " encounter group " process.
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| 19. | The training program, which has been in Houston every summer since 1994, is part boot camp, part encounter group.
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| 20. | Yet the entire production has the teeth-grinding earnestness of an amateur theatrical put on by a neighborhood encounter group.
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