Break Point
Subtitle: A True Account of Brainwashing and the Greater Power of the Gospel
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Translated from: slo
Translation of: to nas zachranilo
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780824517700
Other titles: This Saved Us: How To Avoid Brainwashing
Description: This unique prison journal integrates a fascinating scientific biopsy of brainwashing with astonishing spiritual implications. In 1951 the communist government of Czechoslovakia sent a young medical doctor to prison for refusing to repudiate his faith. There he experienced solitary confinement, brainwashing and torture for seven years. Since he was trained in psychology, Dr. Krcmery was able to recognize the strategies used against him. Ultimately, what saved him from total physical and mental collapse was the Gospel of John which he had memorized before imprisonment and then turned to again and again. In a supreme act of generosity Silvester Krcmery has opted to recall the horrors of that time in order to give us this singular account of the scientic and spiritual basis of brainwashing.
Table of contents: label: Foreword:
title: Eagles Fly High; title: Abbreviations; label: Book One
title: THIS SAVED US: HOW TO SURVIVE BRAINWASHING; title: Preface; label: Introduction
title: The Mysterious History of My Records - The Sources of My Writings - The Pain of Remembering - The Surprise of the First Show Trials; label: Part I
title: Kidnapping or Arrest in the Military Zone - Solitary Confinement and Baptism by Fear - Performances by the Interrogators - Surgery; label: Part II
title: The First Stage of Brainwashing - Sleep Deprivation, Walking, Standing Like Statues - The Interrogation Mill - Shock When the Strongest Break - How Long Can I Hang on?; label: Part III
title: Transfers in a "Submarine" - The Infamous Ruzyn - Convoy to Bratislava - Baptism by Physical Coercion; label: Part IV
title: The Beginning of My Legal Imprisonment - The Miracle of the Smuggled Bible - Brainwashing Continues, Kosice State Security Police - Hallucinations, the Three Degrees of Pain, Stalin's Death; label: Part V
title: Back to the Familiar Ruzyn, Spiritual Weightlessness - Sophisticated Torturers, Final Refusal to Answer Questions - Stool Pigeons and Informers - State Security Leadership in Bratislava is Supposedly Wiped Out - The Principle of Contradiction; label: Part VI
title: Departure From Ruzyn and the Second Move to Bratislava - The Superior Military Court and Prison in Trencin - The Main Trial on the Feast of John the Baptist - My Final Defense; label: Part VII
title: My Spiritual Life in Prison - Spiritual Exercises in Solitary Confinement - Comprehensive Analysis and Personal Meditation - Themes and Ideas for Meditation; label: Part VIII
title: The Gulag: The World of the Condemned - Giant Cells Without Privacy - "God's Mills" - Romanies; label: Part IX
title: Cellmates in Solitary Confinement, Traumatology - Complaints About the Prosecution - Systematic Disinformation - Rules and Regulations for Detainees; label: Part X
title: The Appeal Trial, the Supreme Military Court - The Prisoner is Handcuffed, the Public is Excluded - My Unique Family Support - Prison Uncertainty, Fear, and Constant Good-Byes; title: Selected Documents; label: Epilogue:
title: Thoughts on the Book; title: Slovak Editorial Note; title: Bibliography; title: Notes; label: Book Two
title: IN PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS AFTER BRAINWASHING; label: Part I
title: Mirov Prison; label: Part II
title: Banska Bystrica Prison; label: Part III
title: Bytiz Labor Camp; label: Part IV
title: Jachymov District - Prokop Labor Camp near Horni Slavkov; label: Part V
title: Jachymov District - The Central Camp; label: Part VI
title: Jachymov District - Prokop Labor Camp (for the second time)