Battle for the Mind; A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing by William Walters Sargant, William Sargent

Battle for the Mind; A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing William Walters Sargant, William Sargent ebook
Publisher: Malor Books
Page: 300
ISBN: 9781883536060
Format: pdf

Link to video of talk 'Ritual, Possession I highly recommend it… It's called “Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing” and it's by William Sargent. He's the author of Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing (1957), basically a how-to of techniques for reprogramming people. Of course, Sargant is best known for his research on brainwashing. The Mind Possessed: A Physiology of Possession, Mysticism and Faith Healing. People have also come to use the terms "brainwashing" or "mind control" to explain the otherwise intuitively puzzling success of some methodologies for the religious conversion of inductees to new religious movements (including cults). Opening lines of Propaganda /by Joseph Gasper II Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing /by William Sargant Propaganda and Persuasion /by Garth S. Keith cites another Tavistock researcher Dr. ISBN 1-883536-06-5; Scheflin, Alan W. € The Mechanism of Conversion.” British Medical Journal, 2:311-316. Project M-K Ultra, the CIA´s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification. Government Printing Office, 1977). Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing. Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the A third-generation theory proposed by Ben Zablocki focused on the utilization of mind control to retain members of NRMs and cults to convert them to a new religion. Finally, it should be noted that cult/brainwashing theory often tends to posit the emergence of a false self which cultic conditioning and mind control is said to superimpose on the authentic, developmental self of the convert. Link to Deeley's article 'The Religious Brain'. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China (University of North Carolina Press, 1989). [7] William Sargant, Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing (London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1957): 88. The above methods are right out of the book by William Sargant, Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Brainwashing and Conversion.