Brainwashing The Story Of Men Who Defied It

Author : Edward Hunter
Publisher : Highlyy Publishing LLP
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789395522304

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Brainwashing is a groundbreaking book that offers a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of the psychological techniques used to manipulate and control individuals in times of conflict and crisis. Written by Edward Hunter, a respected journalist and expert on propaganda and psychological warfare, this book is a seminal work that has influenced scholars, policymakers, and activists around the world. In this book, Hunter provides a detailed account of the methods used by totalitarian regimes to brainwash and indoctrinate their citizens, drawing on his experiences covering the Korean War and his interviews with prisoners of war. He explores the science of behavior modification, including hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and drug-induced states, as well as the role of propaganda and censorship in shaping public opinion. Hunter's insights into the mechanics of brainwashing and mind control have proven prescient, as these techniques continue to be used by authoritarian regimes to suppress dissent and maintain power. His analysis of the impact of brainwashing on individuals and societies offers a sobering reminder of the dangers of unchecked state power. With its powerful message and rigorous analysis, Brainwashing remains a seminal work on the psychological manipulation of individuals and populations. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of propaganda and psychological warfare, as well as for those concerned about the impact of authoritarianism on human freedom and dignity.

Author : Edward Hunter
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 133071640X

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Brainwashing the Story of Men Who Defied It (Classic Reprint) by Edward Hunter Pdf

Excerpt from Brainwashing the Story of Men Who Defied It The new word brainwashing entered our minds and diction aries in a phenomenally short time. This sinister political expression had never been seen in print anywhere until a few years ago. About the only times it was ever heard in conversation was inside a tight, intimate circle of trusted relatives or reliable friends in Red China during the short honeymoon period of communism. The few exceptions were when a Red indoctrinator would lose his temper and shout out, You need a brainwashing. The reason the word was picked up so quickly was that it was not just a clever synonym for something already known, but described a strategy that had yet no name. A vacuum in language existed: no word tied together the various tactics that make up the process by which the communists expected to create their new Soviet man. The word came out of the sufferings of the Chinese people. Put under a terrifying combination of subtle and crude men tal and physical pressures and tortures, they detected a pat tern and called it brainwashing. The Reds wanted people to believe that it could be amply described by some familiar expression such as education, public relations, persuasion or by some misleading term like mind reform and re-educa tion. None of these could define it because it was much, much more than any one of them alone. The Chinese knew they hadn't just been educated or persuaded; something much more dire than that had been perpetrated on them, similar in many peculiar ways to a medical treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : EDWARD. HUNTER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033091871

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BRAINWASHING THE STORY OF MEN WHO DEFIED IT by EDWARD. HUNTER Pdf

Author : Edward Hunter
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787202290

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Brainwashing: The Story of Men Who Defied It by Edward Hunter Pdf

First published in 1956, this book by U.S. journalist and intelligence agent Edward Hunter comprises dramatic first-hand accounts from Korean War veterans who survived P.O.W. camps and Communist attempts to brainwash them. “The new word brainwashing entered our minds and dictionaries in a phenomenally short time. [...] The reason the word was picked up so quickly was that it was not just a clever synonym for something already known, but described a strategy that had yet no name. [...] The word came out of the sufferings of the Chinese people. Put under a terrifying combination of subtle and crude mental and physical pressures and tortures, they detected a pattern and called it brainwashing. [...] What they had undergone was more like witchcraft, with its incantations, trances, poisons, and potions, with a strange flair of science about it all, like a devil dancer in a tuxedo, carrying his magic brew in a test tube.” A true and terrible story of the men who endured and defied the most diabolical red torture—the war book you will never forget. “A fascinating document.”—Chicago Tribune

Author : Edward Hunter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0359732631

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Brainwashing by Edward Hunter Pdf

Intelligence agency veteran and journalist Edward Hunter shares the experiences of men he interviewed who were subject to brainwashing as prisoners in totalitarian communist societies. A shocking yet informative expose of the history and techniques of brainwashing by communist military and security services, this book commences by delving into the origins of the practice. Ivan Pavlov, a vaunted scientist in the Soviet Union, was an unwitting aide to the process ? his experiments on animals, and the discoveries he made therein, would form the basis of the incarceration and interrogation methods used in multiple communist states. The object of such procedures was to break down a person's ego, and rebuild it in the form of an unwavering supporter to communist ideology. Chapter by chapter, we are given a detailed guide to the physical and mental manipulations which comprise brainwashing. Supporting this information are multiple interviews and accounts of prisoners who lived to tell of their ordeals.

Author : Edward Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0359732623

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Brainwashing by Edward Hunter Pdf

Intelligence agency veteran and journalist Edward Hunter shares the experiences of men he interviewed who were subject to brainwashing as prisoners in totalitarian communist societies. A shocking yet informative expose of the history and techniques of brainwashing by communist military and security services, this book commences by delving into the origins of the practice. Ivan Pavlov, a vaunted scientist in the Soviet Union, was an unwitting aide to the process ? his experiments on animals, and the discoveries he made therein, would form the basis of the incarceration and interrogation methods used in multiple communist states. The object of such procedures was to break down a person's ego, and rebuild it in the form of an unwavering supporter to communist ideology. Chapter by chapter, we are given a detailed guide to the physical and mental manipulations which comprise brainwashing. Supporting this information are multiple interviews and accounts of prisoners who lived to tell of their ordeals.

Author : Massimo Introvigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009034128

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Brainwashing by Massimo Introvigne Pdf

The events of January 6, 2021 gave new currency to the idea of brainwashing. Some claimed that Trump's followers had been brainwashed, while others insisted that a 'deep state' had brainwashed most Americans into accepting a rigged election. Scholars who explain that brainwashing theories have long been rejected by most academics and courts of law find it difficult to be heard. Brainwashing nevertheless remains a convenient explanation of how seemingly normal citizens convert to unusual religious or political ideologies. This Element traces its origins to the idea that conversion to deviant beliefs is due to black magic. A more scientific hypnosis later replaced magic and the Cold War introduced the supposedly infallible technique of brainwashing. From the 1960s, new religious movements, more commonly called cults, were accused of using brainwashing. Most scholars of religion reject the theory as pseudoscience, but the controversy continues to this day.

Author : Frederick Charles Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125847445X

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Communism, Diagnosis and Treatment by Frederick Charles Schwarz Pdf

Author : Kathleen Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192529756

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Brainwashing by Kathleen Taylor Pdf

Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational headlines. It has also been the subject of learned discussion from many disciplines: including history, sociology, psychology, and psychotherapy. But until now, a crucial part of the debate has been missing: that of any serious reference to the science of the human brain. Descriptions of how opinions can be changed, whether by persuasion, deceit, or force, have been almost entirely psychological. In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brought the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose, and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she 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. She also explores the history of thought-control and shows how it persists all around us, from marketing and television, to politics and education. This edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on the uses of brainwashing today, including by the Islamic State. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

Author : Kathleen Eleanor Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0192804960

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Brainwashing by Kathleen Eleanor Taylor Pdf

Brainwashing brings together the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology to examine the way humans have attempted throughout history to influence and control the thoughts of others. The book explores the history and the science of thought control and shows how it still exists all around, from marketing and television to politics and education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112119813779

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Special Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Butter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110346930

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Plots, Designs, and Schemes by Michael Butter Pdf

Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830s to 1850s, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950s. The study primarily engages with factual texts, such as sermons, pamphlets, political speeches, and confessional narratives, but it also analyzes how fears of conspiracy were dramatized and negotiated in fictional texts, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835) or Hermann Melville's Benito Cereno (1855). The book offers three central insights: 1. The American predilection for conspiracy theorizing can be traced back to the co-presence and persistence of a specific epistemological paradigm that relates all effects to intentional human action, the ideology of republicanism, and the Puritan heritage. 2. Until far into the twentieth century, conspiracy theories were considered a perfectly legitimate form of knowledge. As such, they shaped how many Americans, elites as well as “common” people, understood and reacted to historical events. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War would not have occurred without widespread conspiracy theories. 3. Although most extant research claims the opposite, conspiracy theories have never been as marginal and unimportant as in the past decades. Their disqualification as stigmatized knowledge only occurred around 1960, and coincided with a shift from theories that detect conspiracies directed against the government to conspiracies by the government.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities,Edward Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Brainwashing
ISBN : UCSD:31822024209272

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Communist Psychological Warfare (brainwashing) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities,Edward Hunter Pdf

Author : Daniel Pick
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782833314

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Brainwashed by Daniel Pick Pdf

'A frankly brilliant book' - GUARDIAN 'An absorbing exploration ... Pick does not stumble' - TORTOISE 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' - SIMON GARFIELD In 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose - apparently freely - to move to Mao's China. Among those refusing repatriation were twenty-one American GIs. Their decision sparked alarm in the West: why didn't they want to come home? What was going on? Soon, people were saying that the POWs' had been 'brainwashed'. Was this something new or a phenomenon that has been around for centuries? The belief that it is possible to marshal scientific knowledge to govern someone's mind gained enormous attention. In an era of Cold War paranoia and experimentation on 'altered states', the idea of brainwashing flourished, appearing in everything from critiques of CIA research on LSD to warnings of corporate groupthink, from visions of automaton assassins to conspiracy theories about 'global elites'. Today, brainwashing is almost taken for granted - built into our psychological and political language, rooted in the way we think about minds and societies. How did we get to this point - and why? Psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick delves into the mysterious world of brainwashing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from The Manchurian Candidate to ISIS, TV advertising to online algorithms. Mixing fascinating case studies with historical and psychological insights, Brainwashed is a stimulating journey into the mysteries of thought control.

Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Guerrilla warfare
ISBN : SRLF:A0005098769

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Unconventional Warfare: Psychological warfare by United States Air Force Academy. Library Pdf