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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

Dimsdale, Joel E.

Paperback

General PsychologyGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0300271034
ISBN13: 9780300271034
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Feb 21 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
A highly readable and compelling account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to today's misinformation, cyberbullying and cultlike behavior on the Internet.--Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post

This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.

Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story--one that hasn't yet ended.

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