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‘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."

N. Y. State Journal of Medicine

how can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why docs 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 behavior 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 behavior already established in the minds of their hearers and to substitute new patterns for them.Introduction xix1 Experiments in animals I2 Animal and human behavior compared 213 The use of drugs in psychotherapy 434 Psychoanalysis, shock treatments and lobotomy 555 Techniques of religious conversion 736 Applications of religious techniques 1057 Brain-washing in religion and politics 13 18 Brain-washing in ancient timesBY ROBERT GRAVES 1679 The eliciting of confessions 17910 Consolidation and prevention 21911 General conclusions 237Bibliography 243Publication Date1957