Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism information
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
Book cover, 1963 edition
Author
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.
Translator
Richard Jaffe (Chinese)
Cover artist
Shelley Gruendler
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Psychology Brainwashing Mind control
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Norton, New York (1961, first edition) University of North Carolina Press (reprint)
Publication date
1961, 1989 (UNC Press reprint)
Media type
Paperback
Pages
524 (1989 reprint)
ISBN
0-8078-4253-2
OCLC
19388265
Dewey Decimal
153.8/53/0951 19
LC Class
BF633 .L5 1989
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China is a non-fiction book by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the psychology of mind control.
Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews with American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans, Lifton also interviewed 15 Chinese who had fled their homeland after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese universities. From these interviews, which in some cases occurred regularly for over a year, Lifton identified the tactics used by Chinese communists to cause drastic shifts in one's opinions and personality and "brainwash" American soldiers into making demonstrably false assertions.
The book was first published in 1961 by Norton in New York.[1] The 1989 reprint edition was published by University of North Carolina Press.[2] Lifton is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
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