Full name: The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination

Author: Denise Winn Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781883536220 1883536227

Ever since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the Communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to fascinate and confuse. Is it really possible to force any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to his character? What makes so-called brainwashing so different from the equally insidious effects of indoctrination and conditioning, or even advertising and education? Research findings from psychology show that brainwashing is not a special subversive technique; it is the clever manipulation of unrealized influences that operate in all our lives. This book, by breaking down so-called brainwashing to its individual elements, shows how social conditioning, need for approval, emotional dependency and much else that we are unaware of, prevent us from being as self-directed as we think; and, conversely, which human traits make us the least susceptible to subtle influence. Similar books: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Quiet by Susan Cain Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Blink by Malcolm Gladwell Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson The Empath's Survival Guide by Judith Orloff