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Control # 1 2020951874
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20221014115514.0
Fixed Data 8 201210s2021 ctua b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a 2020951874
ISBN 20    $a9780300247176$qhardbound
ISBN 20    $a0300247176$qhardbound
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)on1241244695
Obsolete 39    $a331770$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aYDX$beng$cYDX$erda$dBDX$dYUS$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dUIU$dOCLCO$dGZN$dUKMGB$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $alccopycat
LC Call 50 00 $aBF633$b.D56 2021
Dewey Class 82 04 $a153.8530904$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aDimsdale, Joel E.,$d1947-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aDark persuasion :$ba history of brainwashing from Pavlov to social media /$cJoel E. Dimsdale.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2021]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2021
Phys Descrpt 300    $axiii, 284 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $a"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."--Publisher's website.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aBefore Pavlov: Torture and Conversion -- Pavlov's Dogs and the Soviet Show Trials -- Extracting Information with Drugs: The Military's Quest in World War II -- A Cold War Prelude to Korea -- The Korean War and the Birth of Brainwashing -- The CIA Strikes Back: Dead Bodies -- Dead Memories: The Canadian Legacy of Ewen Cameron -- Flash Conversion of Hostages: Stockholm Syndrome and Its Variants -- Patricia Hearst: Where Stockholm Met Indoctrination -- From Racial Harmony to Death in the Jungle -- Heaven's Gate: Beliefs or Delusions? -- The Beleaguered Persistence of Brainwashing -- The Future of Brainwashing in Neuroscience and Social Media.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aBrainwashing$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aControl (Psychology)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSocial control.