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A review by anteus7
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost A.M. Meerloo
4.0
I seem to be doing this to myself a lot lately...
This was a good book, but not a fun book. The subject matter itself, thought control, menticide, and brainwashing perpetrated (mostly) by totalitarian governments, is not fodder for light reading. Of course, I knew that going in.
The style is clinical, drawing on case studies and observations drawn over years, but it was the clearly personal touches that drew me in. Meerloo had direct contact with Nazis during World War II as a practicing psychologist, a resistance fighter, and a prisoner under interrogation, so his insights come from experience.
I need to read something lighter next time, I think!
This was a good book, but not a fun book. The subject matter itself, thought control, menticide, and brainwashing perpetrated (mostly) by totalitarian governments, is not fodder for light reading. Of course, I knew that going in.
The style is clinical, drawing on case studies and observations drawn over years, but it was the clearly personal touches that drew me in. Meerloo had direct contact with Nazis during World War II as a practicing psychologist, a resistance fighter, and a prisoner under interrogation, so his insights come from experience.
I need to read something lighter next time, I think!