
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China

twenty-five Westerners and fifteen Chinese subjects
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
The basic task was to locate people who had been put through intensive reform experiences and communicate with them in meaningful emotional depth.
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
seventeen months of stimulating psychiatric investigation.
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
serving as an Air Force psychiatrist in Japan and Korea.
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
Is it related to psychotherapy?
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
How successful is thought reform?
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
imposed dogmas, inquisitions, and mass conversion movements
Jay Lifton • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China
For despite the vicissitudes of brainwashing, the process which gave rise to the name is very much a reality: the official Chinese Communist program of szu-hsiang kai-tsao (variously translated as “ideological remolding,” “ideological reform,” or as we shall refer to it here, “thought reform”) has in fact emerged as one of the most powerful efforts
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A description of where the word "brain-washing" came from
the term has a far from precise and a questionable usefulness;