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Mind Control




  Mind control, otherwise known as brainwashing or thought control when systematic, unethical manipulative methods are used to persuade others at their expense. The term applied to any psychological tactic subverting their thinking or behavior. Mind control is commonly known used on prisoners of war and in cult religions.



  As to prisoners of war, chosen techniques include dehumanizing by keeping them in filth, sleep deprivation, psychological harrassment, instilling guilt and group social pressure.



  Thought reform contains elements of Chinese culture, interpersonal sensitivity, learning by rote and self-cultivation. These used in extracting confessions, by the Russian secret police in corrective prisons and mental hospitals to produce value change. Methods are used by religious sects, political elites and primitive societies to initiate and convert new members.



   Philip Zimbardo defines mind control when individual and collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents that modify or distort perception, cognition or behavior. He suggests we are all susceptible to such manipulation.



  Social psychologist Robert Cialdini argues mind control is possible by covert exploitation of unconscious rules that aid in healthy social interaction. He says common rules can be used to prey on the unwary. He offers examples of mild and extreme mind control, notes when each social rule is exploited for false ends and offers resistance to these methods.



  Exit counselor Steven Hassan describes various controls over human behavior, information, thought and emotion. Hassan claims cults recruit and keep members by using systematic deception, behavior modification, withholding information and intense persuasion techniques, fears.



  Mind control is a general term for controversial theories you are thinking, emotions and decisions can be manipulated by outside forces.



  Sociologist James Richardson says brainwashing techniques have spread to other fields with success, as in custody battles, one parent is accused of brainwashing the child in their favor, opposing the other parent. Similarly, charging sexual abuse out of the same motivation.





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