[pf] Brainwashing info sources

by Kaleopono

20 December 2000 05:31 UTC

Here are two authoritative books on which you can confidently rely for
information concerning brainwashing and cultural conditioning.  We are awash
in it every day and truly do not know what we think.  I hope some of you
find this material informative and useful.  The first book is good for
general audiences.  The second is professionally rigorous.  Kaleopono
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THE MANIPULATED MIND
Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
by Denise Winn

Most of us cherish our values of individual freedom of thought. Yet after
the Korean War, American POW's fell greater victim to Chinese brainwashing
techniques than those of other nationalities. Some made bizarre and even
impossible confessions.

The Manipulated Mind explores the pioneering research that, sparked by this
issue, developed into one of the most provocative fields of current
psychology. Today brainwashing is no longer seen as merely a special
subversive technique, but rather as the clever manipulation of unrealized
influences that are continually operating in all our lives.

The Manipulated Mind helps us to see how manipulated we really are. And in
doing so, it offers us an opportunity to become more self-directed.

Cloth ISBN 0 86304 025
Order Code MAMI1 217 pages $25.00
from http://www.ishkbooks.com/bookservice2.html
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Battle for the Mind
A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing
William Sargant
Malor Books, 1997

Forty years after it was written, Sargant's Battle for the Mind makes
disparate and complicated mental and behavioral phenomena understandable.
His research in World War II showed that with enough battle exposure, every
soldier eventually shows the symptoms of battle-fatigue, shell-shock, or
what we know now as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He went further
to look at similar processes in religious conversion, spirit possession,
brainwashing, political conversion, and the consultation of oracles in the
ancient world.

William Sargant was an English psychiatrist who for many years until his
death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. He worked
in World War II on the problem of understanding battle-fatigue and developed
innovative treatments for it.

Available from Amazon for $12.00 (plus shipping; or your favorite local
bookstore for a few dollars more and no shipping)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883536065/qid=977283391/sr=1-3/103-7
551315-2460657