Before revision: LGATs and the anti-cult movement After commissioning a report by Margaret Singer, the American Psychological Association subsequently rejectedUniversity of Virginia Library and strongly criticised CESNUR – APA Brief in the Molko Case a report by the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control , in which the anti-cult psychologist Dr Margaret Singer included large group awareness trainings as one example of what she called "coercive persuasion".
After revision: LGATs and the anti-cult movement After commissioning a report in 1993 by the anti-cult psychologist Margaret Singer, the American Psychological Association subsequently rejectedUniversity of Virginia Library and strongly criticised CESNUR – APA Brief in the Molko Case Singer's 1996 report (produced with the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control ), which included large group awareness trainings as one example of what she called "coercive persuasion".