Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China by Robert Jay Lifton

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

Robert Jay Lifton

524 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 C...

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