Delusion and Mass Delusion

Delusion and Mass Delusion
Author: Joost A M Meerloo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781773239675

In this classic of political and social psychology, Joost Meerloo attempts to account for the mechanisms of mind that have made the brainwashing techniques of totalitarian states so historically successful. His frightening conclusion, that "hardly anyone can resist," appeals to mechanisms undergirding human thought, many of which are not obviously available to individuals.

Brainwashing

Brainwashing
Author: Kathleen Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006-07-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199204780

Bringing the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together, this book examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. It also explores the history of thought-control and shows how it exists around us.

The Manipulated Mind

The Manipulated Mind
Author: Denise Winn
Publisher: ISHK
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2000
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1883536227

This book shows how such factors as social conditioning, need for approval and emotional dependency prevent us from being as self-directed as we think - and which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence.

Battle for the Mind

Battle for the Mind
Author: William Sargant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Brainwashing
ISBN: 9781883536060

How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a prisoner of war sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are discussed in this definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. Sargant spells out and illustrates the basic technique used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brainwashers to disperse the patterns of belief and behavior already established in the minds of their hearers, and to substitute new patterns for them.

The Power of the Powerless

The Power of the Powerless
Author: Vaclav Havel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315487357

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.

Histories of Human Engineering

Histories of Human Engineering
Author: Maarten Derksen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-06-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1107057434

This fascinating account of the histories of human engineering reveals the importance of combining technology with tact.

The Crowd

The Crowd
Author: Gustave Le Bon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1897
Genre: Crowds
ISBN:

The Rape of the Mind

The Rape of the Mind
Author: Joost Meerloo
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2022
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1456640038

Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. In "The Rape of the Mind" he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized "rape of the mind." He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The "Rape of the Mind" is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists. Contents: Part One: The Techniques of Individual Submission. 1. You Too Would Confess. 2. Pavlov's Students as Circus Tamers. 3. Medication into Submission. 4. Why Do They Yield? The Psychodynamics of False Confession. Part Two: The Techniques of Mass Submission. 5. The Cold War against the Mind. 6. Totalitaria and its Dictatorship. 7. The Intrusion by Totalitarian Thinking. 8. Trial by Trial. 9. Fear as a Tool of Terror. Part Three: Unobtrusive Coercion. 10. The Child is Father to the Man. 11. Mental Contagion and Mass Delusion. 12. Technology Invades Our Minds. 13. Intrusion by the Administrative Mind. 14. The Turncoat in Each of Us. Part Four: In Search of Defenses. 15. Training Against Mental Torture. 16. Education for Discipline or Higher Morale. 17. From Old to New Courage. 18. Freedom -- Our Mental Backbone

Operation Mind Control (the Complete Edition)

Operation Mind Control (the Complete Edition)
Author: Walter H. Bowart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2017-12-26
Genre: Brainwashing
ISBN: 9781387470990

Operation Mind Control - The CIA - The Making and Unmaking of a KILLER! This is the most terrifying true story ever to emerge from the united states. Walter Bowart has uncovered a huge government ""cryptocracy"" dedicated to controlling and manipulating human minds. Through hypnosis and drugs, ordinary citizens became CIA zombies, human computers, spies, trained assassins, with no control over their consciousness or consciousness of their actions. Only unexplained memory gaps, or a separate personality which emerged on a trigger cue, showed the victim that something else was amiss. Bowart's devastating account includes top secret documents cold-bloodedly outlining the cryptocracy's program, and startling new evidence to link Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan with Operation Mind Control. In the Manchurian Candidate that was fiction - OPERATION MIND CONTROL IS CHILLING FACT!

Dairy Goat Judging Techniques

Dairy Goat Judging Techniques
Author: Harvey Considine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1978
Genre: Goats
ISBN:

A philosopy of judging; Parts of dairy goat; Use of the score card breed standards for the evaluation of type; Evaluation of defects; Disqualification; Evaluating general appearance; Evaluation dairy character; Evaluating body capacity; The mammary system; Type deficiencies - especific for breed; Judging etiquette and ring technique; Giving reasons; Judging classes of milking does; Judging dry stock; Judging group classes; Judging bucks; Fitting and showing; Judging showmanship; Classification; Type changes - similarities and differences by age; Use if production and type information.