Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media 9780300262469, 2020951874, 9780300247176, 0300247176

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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
 9780300262469, 2020951874, 9780300247176, 0300247176

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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

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