The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled

12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full green paper boards. viii,161 pp. Some rubbing and bruising to extremities. Foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is sunned, chafed to extremities and very lightly to covers, chipped to spine ends. During the past few years there has been a proliferation of institutes specializing in group dynamics. The concept upon which group dynamics was developed some years ago by such respected organizations as Bethel and the Esalen Institute. The Pit is the incredible, almost unbelievable, true story of a four-day encounter session that describes what happened to a group of unsuspecting executives who found themselves virtually imprisoned in a Hyatt House Motel in Palo Alto and who in the interest of becoming sensitized to becoming better salesmen and leaders were beaten, whipped, jammed into coffins, forced to perform unnatural sex acts and, in several cases, crucified.