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

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UNC Press Books, 1 בינו׳ 2012 - 524 עמודים
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth, accompanied by feelings of guilt, that characterizes the process of "thought reform." In a new preface, Lifton addresses the implications of his model for the study of American religious cults.

 

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The Problem
1
Prison Thought Reform of Westerners
17
Thought Reform of Chinese Intellectuals
241
Totalism and Its Alternatives
417
A Confession Document
473
Notes
485
Index
505
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מידע על המחבר (2012)

Robert Jay Lifton is lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and The Nazi Doctors.

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