A harrowing account of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries This gripping boo
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English Pages 304 Year 2021
Table of contents :
Preface
1. Before Pavlov: Torture and Conversion
PART I GOVERNMENT AND ACADEME
2. Pavlov’s Dogs and the Soviet Show Trials
3. Extracting Information with Drugs: The Military’s Quest in World War II
4. A Cold War Prelude to Korea
5. The Korean War and the Birth of Brainwashing
6. The CIA Strikes Back: Dead Bodies
7. Dead Memories: The Canadian Legacy of Ewen Cameron
PART II CRIMINALS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS
8. Flash Conversion of Hostages: Stockholm Syndrome and Its Variants
9. Patricia Hearst: Where Stockholm Met Indoctrination
10. From Racial Harmony to Death in the Jungle
11. Heaven’s Gate: Beliefs or Delusions?
PART III INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
12. The Beleaguered Persistence of Brainwashing
13. The Future of Brainwashing in Neuroscience and Social Media
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index