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Large Group Awareness Training
Large Group Awareness Training or LGAT is a term popularized in the American Psychological Association's 1986 draft DIMPAC report and also by Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich in the 1996 book Cults in our Midst to describe intense commercial trainings by non-psychologists which from the outside may resemble group therapy. Often secretive and expensive, these were often criticized as financial pyramid schemes, brainwashing or irresponsible, unlicensed psychotherapy, marketed as "educational" to avoid issues of licensing and malpractice.
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