Subjects of The Program
The documentary included Alain Roth, a Landmark Forum leader and former head of Landmark Education's now defunct division in France.
Part of the documentary recounts how journalists from Pièces à Conviction originally wanted to interview Roth, but that Landmark Education flew Sophie McLean from New York City to France to speak with them instead.
McLean dismisses the description of her company as a "cult" or even as "cult-like", and disparages the view that its business depends on brainwashing. In support of her contention, she cites three academics: Dr. Raymond Fowler (former president of the American Psychological Association), Prof. Dr. Norbert Nedopil (Chief, department of forensic psychiatry, University of Munich, and French psychiatrist Jean-Marie Abgrall. Landmark paid Abgrall to do a report on it, but later in the documentary Abgrall denies that he took a position either way on characterising Landmark as a cult or not.
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