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Brainwashing is costing a city and its people millions of dollars, and then getting them to thank you for it.
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Brainwashing occurs when a person is overwhelmed physically and psychologically while under the control of the aggressor.
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Robert Lifton, the distinguished psychologist and author of many books, including Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China (1961), defined cults in a 1981 letter in the Harvard Mental Health Letter as an "aspect of a worldwide epidemic of ideological totalism, or fundamentalism."
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"Brainwashing" had powerful, sinister connotations in 1968, stirring fresh memories of the Korean War and accounts of Chinese and North Korean "brainwashing" of American POWs.
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"Brainwashing" is just a value-laden term for what politely passes as "alignment" and "on-message" in the corporate setting.
Charles H. Green: Lessons in Propaganda: What Our Politicians Learned from Business 2008
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Stirring words from physiologist Kathleen Taylor in her fascinating book on the history and science of 'Brainwashing' p105, ISBN 0192804960.
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Stirring words from physiologist Kathleen Taylor in her fascinating book on the history and science of 'Brainwashing' p105, ISBN 0192804960.
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(A free "Brainwashing" book to the first three people who explain Uncasville!)
GuruFocus Updates 2009
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(A free "Brainwashing" book to the first three people who explain Uncasville!)
GuruFocus Updates 2009
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(A free "Brainwashing" book to the first three people who explain Uncasville!)
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