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Amway's Recruitment Tactics Similar to those of Cults

Cults

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Patrick O'Reilly, Ph.D.

Originally published in BASIS

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January-March 2007

I recently ran across a short article about a California clinical psychologist whose license to practice was put on probation because he persuaded two of his clients to enroll in his Amway business.

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