num_pages: 324
description: The term 'brainwashing' was first recorded in 1950, but it is an expression of a much older the forcible and full-scale alteration of a person's beliefs. Over the past 50 years the term has crept into popular culture, served as a topic for jokes, frightened the public in mediaheadlines, and slandered innumerable people and institutions. It has also been the subject of learned discussion from many history, sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, and marketing. Despite this variety, to date there has been one angle any serious reference to real brains.Descriptions of how opinions can be changed, whether by persuasion, deceit, or force, have been almost entirely psychological.
language: English
title: Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
titlecomplete: Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
genres: Self Help, History, Cults, Sociology, Society, Psychology, Neuroscience, Science, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 560
publisher: Oxford University Press