The rape of the mind / Joost A. M. Meerloo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meerloo, Joost, 1903-1976, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brainwashing.

Psychology.

Thought and thinking.

Psychological warfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Picker Partners Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

"SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. The first two and one-half years of WWII, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at first-hand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion...Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially....After the war, he came to the United States...As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed - Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others - his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime...It is Dr. Meerloo's position that through pressure on the weak points in men's makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a "traitor." And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized "rape of the mind." He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion.

The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists."-Print ed.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE - THE TECHNIQUES OF INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSION

CHAPTER ONE - YOU TOO WOULD CONFESS

The Enforced Confession

Mental Coercion and Enemy Occupation

Witchcraft and Torture

The Refinement of the Rack

Menticide in Korea

CHAPTER TWO - PAVLOV'S STUDENTS AS CIRCUS TAMERS

The Salivating Dog

The Conditioning of Man

Isolation and Other Factors in Conditioning

Mass Conditioning Through Speech

Political Conditioning

The Urge to Be Conditioned

CHAPTER THREE - MEDICATION INTO SUBMISSION

The Search for Ecstasy Through Drugs

Hypnotism and Mental Coercion

Needling for the Truth

The Lie-Detector

The Therapist as an Instrument of Coercion

CHAPTER FOUR - WHY DO THEY YIELD? THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF FALSE CONFESSION

The Upset Philosopher

The Barbed-Wire Disease

The Moment of Sudden Surrender

The Need to Collapse

The Need for Companionship

Blackmailing Through Overburdening Guilt Feelings

The Law of Survival Versus the Law of Loyalty

The Mysterious Masochistic Pact

A Survey of Psychological Processes involved in Brainwashing and Menticide

PART TWO - THE TECHNIQUES OF MASS SUBMISSION

CHAPTER FIVE - THE COLD WAR AGAINST THE MIND

The Public-Opinion Engineers

Psychological Warfare as a Weapon of Terror

The Indoctrination Barrage

The Enigma of Coexistence

CHAPTER SIX - TOTALITARIA AND ITS DICTATORSHIP

The Robotization of Man

Cultural Predilection for Totalitarianism

The Totalitarian Leader

The Final Surrender of the Robot Man

The Common Retreat from Reality

The Retreat to Automatization

The Womb State

CHAPTER SEVEN - THE INTRUSION BY TOTALITARIAN THINKING

The Strategy of Terror

The Purging Rituals

Wild Accusation and Black Magic

Spy Mania

The Strategy of Criminalization.

Verbocracy and Semantic Fog-Talking the People into Submission

Logocide

Labelomania

The Apostatic Crime in Totalitaria

CHAPTER EIGHT - TRIAL BY TRIAL

The Downfall of Justice

The Demagogue as Prosecutor and Hypnotist

The Trial as an Instrument of Intimidation

The Congressional Investigation

The Witness and His Subjective Testimony

The Right to Be Silent

Mental Blackmail

The Judge and the Jury

Televised Interrogation

The Quest for Detachment

CHAPTER NINE - FEAR AS A TOOL OF TERROR

The Fear of Living

Our Fantasies About Danger

Paradoxical Fear

Regression

Camouflage and Disguise

Explosive Panics

The Body Takes Over

PART THREE - UNOBTRUSIVE COERCION

CHAPTER TEN - THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN

How Some Totalitarians May Develop

The Moulding Nursery

The Father Cuts the Cord

CHAPTER ELEVEN - MENTAL CONTAGION AND MASS DELUSION

The Affirmation of My Own Errors

Stages of Thinking and Delusion

The Loss of Verifiable Reality

Mass Delusion

The Danger of Mental Contagion

The Explanation of Delusion

The Liberation from Magic Thinking

CHAPTER TWELVE - TECHNOLOGY INVADES OUR MINDS

The Creeping Coercion by Technology

The Paradox of Technology

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - INTRUSION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE MIND

The Administrative Mind

The Ailments of Those in Public Office

The Conference of Unconscious Minds

The Bureaucratic Mind

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE TURNCOAT IN EACH OF US - THE CONFUSING INFLUENCE OF THE PROBLEM OF TREASON AND LOYALTY

The Involuntary Traitor

The Concept of Treason

The Traitor who Consciously takes Option for the Other Side

Our Treacherous Intellect

Self-Betrayal

The Development of Loyalty

In Praise of Nonconformity

The Loyalty Compulsion

PART FOUR - IN SEARCH OF DEFENSES.

Indoctrination Against Indoctrination?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - EDUCATION FOR DISCIPLINE OR HIGHER MORALE

The Role of Education

Discipline and Morale

Discipline and Brainwashing

The Breaking Point and Our Capacity for Frustration

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - FROM OLD TO NEW COURAGE WHO RESISTS LONGER AND WHY?

The Myth of Courage

The Morale-Boosting Idea

The New Courage

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - FREEDOM-OUR MENTAL BACKBONE

The Democratizing Action of Psychology

The Battle on Two Fronts

The Paradox of Freedom

The Future Age of Psychology.

Notes:

"The psychology of thought control, menticide, and brainwashing"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786255112

1786255111

OCLC:

975222037