Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China. With a New Preface By the author
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China. With a New Preface By the author
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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
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
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- False
- First edition
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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.
