Battle For The Mind by William Sargan
how can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a PW sign a ‘confession* he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the PW*s captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends?
These and other compelling questions are discussed in Battle for the Mind. William Sargant, a leading physician in psychological medicine, spells out and illustrates the basic technique used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behaviour already established in the minds of their hearers and to substitute new patterns for them. These and other compelling questions are discussed in Battle for the Mind. William Sargant, a leading physician in psychological medicine, spells out and illustrates the basic technique used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behaviour already established in the minds of their hearers and to substitute new patterns for them.
‘This work is timely in our period of brain-washing, hidden persuaders, and the increasing dilution of psychiatry with mysticism and religion. It will stimulate the informed person interested in technics devised by men in power to control the thought and destiny of their fellowman."William Walters Sargant was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy, and insulin shock therapy
N. Y. State Journal of Medicine
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