CommentVahle's The Unity Movement cited PSI Seminars as one of nine growth organizations that grew out of Mind Dynamics[5]. Other groups also cited by Vahle, as having been influenced by Mind Dynamics, included Erhard Seminars Training, The Forum, and Lifespring[5].
Stich and Russell compared the organization to EST, writing that it was "an EST type self-awareness and motivational organization."[6]. PSI Seminars has also been cited by authors of books on self-improvement, including Extreme Success[7], and Jack Canfield's The Success Principles(TM)[8].
The coursework of PSI Seminars was also analyzed in a 1983 study in the academic journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry[9]. 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[9]. 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[10]. On federal court order, psychologist Margaret Singer attended seminars held by PSI World[11]. Singer characterized the organization as a form of Large Group Awareness Training[11][12]. In 1998, it was reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation background files on "PSI World Seminar's Graduate Volunteers" was obtained by the Clinton administration, along with many other individuals' information[13]. This was part of a scandal later termed "Filegate"[13].
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