William Sargant (1907–1988)
Autor(a) de Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing
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Obras de William Sargant
Psychiatric Treatment in General Teaching Hospitals: a Plea for a Mechanistic Approach (The Watson Smith Lecture 1966) 1 exemplar(es)
De worsteling om de menselijke geest : hersenspoeling voor en achter het IJzeren Gordijn 1 exemplar(es)
Battle For The Mind (Best Motivational Books for Personal Development (Design Your Life)) 1 exemplar(es)
Battle For The Mind: How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians And Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs And Behavior 1 exemplar(es)
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- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 229
- Popularidade
- #98,340
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 17
- Idiomas
- 1
How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are discussed in the definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine. Sargant spells out and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists, and brain-washers to disperse the patterns of belief and behavior already established in the minds of their hearers, and to substitute new patterns for them.… (mais)