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Lifton Robert Jay

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China. With a New Preface By the author

The University of North Carolina Press, 1989,

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Author
Lifton Robert Jay
Publishers
The University of North Carolina Press, 1989
Keyword
CINA China Chine
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, softcover. Informed by Erik Eriksonís 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 ìbrainwashingî 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 ìthought reform.î In a new preface, Lifton addresses the implications of his model for the study of American religious cults. About the Author Robert Jay Lifton is lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and The Nazi Doctors.
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