Bibliograph

Push Back!, How to Take a Stand Against Groupthink, Bullies, Agitators, and Professional Manipulators

Type

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Push Back!, How to Take a Stand Against Groupthink, Bullies, Agitators, and Professional Manipulators

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Push Back!

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

866439535

Sub title

How to Take a Stand Against Groupthink, Bullies, Agitators, and Professional Manipulators

Summary

How many times have you had the unsettling experience of being treated as a troublemaker as soon as you question or raise an objection to a school policy, a textbook, a course of study, a new county regulation, or a community proposal?Every day, attendees of conferences, community forums, PTA meetings, and board meetings are made to feel uncomfortable and occasionally foolish by the person or persons leading the meeting. The speakers, moderators, or provocateurs?whom author B.K. Eakman refers to as professional manipulators?hold power over the room and know how to steer the discu

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; BEGINNER COURSE-Provocation and Consensus; Introduction; Section 1: Agents of Change and "Marginalization"; Section 2: "Medicalizing" Attitudes and Perceptions; Section 3: "Climate Control"; Section 4: From Provocation to Indoctrination; Section 5: The Principles of Psych War; INTERMEDIATE COURSE-Loose Logic; Introduction; Section 1: The Oversimplification; Section 2: The Smear; Section 3: The Hasty Generalization; Section 4: The False Hypothesis; Section 5: The False Analogy; Section 6: The IrrelevancySection 7: The Straw-Man ArgumentSection 8: Circular Reasoning; Section 9: The Appeals; Section 10: Questionable Definitions; PRACTICE EXERCISES: DEFLECTING MANIPULATION; ADVANCED COURSE-Hardball Attack Strategies; Introduction; Section 1: From Personal Attacks to "Broad Strokes"; Section 2: "Attack" Publications; Section 3: Who Do Our Opponents Think They Are?; Section 4: Classic Adversarial Maneuvers; Section 5: Circumvention and Pre-emption; Section 6: Campaigns, Elections, and Outrageous Litmus Tests; Section 7: How to Pursue Successful "Proactive" Counter-MeasuresPOST-GRAD COURSE-Roots of ManipulationIntroduction; Section 1: Psy-Ops-The Threads, the Glue, and the Means; Section 2: The "Negative Trigger" Effect; Section 3: The Self-Disclosure Craze; Section 4: Sensitivity and Encounter Group (Training); Section 5: Tale of Two Tavistocks; Behind the Scenes Summary; Self-Test; Self-Test Answers; Appendix

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