Full name: Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing - How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior

Author: William Sargant Year: 1957 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781883536060 1883536065

How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends??These and other compelling questions are discussed in the definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. Sargant spells out and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behavior already established in the minds of their hearers, and to substitute new patterns for them. Similar books: Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences by Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow The Psychology of Intelligence by Jean Piaget Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison The g Factor by Arthur R. Jensen Science And Human Behavior by B. F. Skinner About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner Don't Believe Everything You Think by Thomas Kida Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow Vital Lies, Simple Truths by Daniel Goleman Identity: Youth and Crisis by Erik H. Erikson Self and Others by R. D. Laing A Blue Fire by James Hillman 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychology by Gillian Butler The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli Psychology For Dummies by Adam Cash Psychology and Religion by C. G. Jung Introduction to psychology by Dennis Coon