Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

A Study of 'brainwashing' in China

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Robert Jay Lifton

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Paperback / softback

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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 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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

July 31st, 1989

Author

Robert Jay Lifton

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Edition

New edition

Pages

524

Dimensions

156x235x33

ISBN-13

9780807842539

Product ID

3906181

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