The Rape of the Mind

Joost Meerloo

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Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. In "The Rape of the Mind" he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized "rape of the mind." He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The "Rape of the Mind" is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists. Contents: Part One: The Techniques of Individual Submission. 1. You Too Would Confess. 2. Pavlov's Students as Circus Tamers. 3. Medication into Submission. 4. Why Do They Yield? The Psychodynamics of False Confession. Part Two: The Techniques of Mass Submission. 5. The Cold War against the Mind. 6. Totalitaria and its Dictatorship. 7. The Intrusion by Totalitarian Thinking. 8. Trial by Trial. 9. Fear as a Tool of Terror. Part Three: Unobtrusive Coercion. 10. The Child is Father to the Man. 11. Mental Contagion and Mass Delusion. 12. Technology Invades Our Minds. 13. Intrusion by the Administrative Mind. 14. The Turncoat in Each of Us. Part Four: In Search of Defenses. 15. Training Against Mental Torture. 16. Education for Discipline or Higher Morale. 17. From Old to New Courage. 18. Freedom – Our Mental Backbone

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• Political Science
• Propaganda

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• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 12 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456640033
• Langue: English

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THE RAPE OF THE MIND


Since 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective “truth” on their victims’ minds.
It is Dr. Meerloo’s position that through pressure on the weak points in men’s makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a “traitor.” And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people’s minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized “rape of the mind.” He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion.
As John Dollard wrote in The New York Times :
“Dr. Meerloo is a passionate spokesman for the democratic practice of life as a general human goal, not merely as a device for beating off the totalitarians … Every thinking American should take some of his ‘self’ time — his time for self-development — and read this book. Dr. Meerloo shows in his own person what psychoanalysis can do when it is freely combined with social science knowledge. He is a remarkably developed individual man; indeed, he is one of the great spokesmen of the democratic world, and everyone should know him.”



Dr. Joost Meerloo’s best-known work, The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.
The first two and one-half years of World War II, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at firsthand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion. During this time he was able to use his psychiatric and psychoanalytic knowledge to treat some of the victims. Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially.
In this capacity he had to investigate not only traitors and collaborators, but also those members of the Resistance who had gone through the utmost of mental pressure. Later, as High Commissioner for Welfare, he came in closer contact with those who had gone through physical and mental torture. After the war, he came to the United States, where his war experiences would not permit him to concentrate solely on his psychiatric practice, but compelled him to go beyond purely medical aspects to the social aspects of the problem.
As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed — Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others — his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime. His knowledge of these totalitarian procedures has been officially acknowledged; he served as an expert witness in the case of Colonel Schwable, the Marine Corps officer who, after months of subjection to physical and mental torture following his capture in Korea, was made to confess to having taken part in germ warfare.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THOUGHT CONTROL, MENTICIDE, AND BRAINWASHING


THE RAPE OF THE MIND
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
by Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD


Published by
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First paperback July, 2020.
Ebook Edition, Feb. 2021


Title: The rape of the mind; the psychology of thought control, menticide, and brainwashing
Author: Meerloo, Joost Abraham Maurits, Copyright 2020 by BN Publishing, Contact Us: [e-mail]
Subjects: Brainwashing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview of Contents
FOREWORD
Chapter One YOU TOO WOULD CONFESS
Chapter Two PAVLOV’S STUDENTS AS CIRCUS TAMERS
Chapter Three MEDICATION INTO SUBMISSION
Chapter Four WHY DO THEY YIELD? The Psychodynamics of False Confession
Chapter Five THE COLD WAR AGAINST THE MIND
Chapter Six TOTALITARIA AND ITS DICTATORSHIP
Chapter Seven THE INTRUSION BY TOTALITARIAN THINKING
Chapter Eight TRIAL BY TRIAL
Chapter Nine FEAR AS A TOOL OF TERROR
Chapter Ten THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN
Chapter Eleven MENTAL CONTAGION AND MASS DELUSION
Chapter Twelve TECHNOLOGY INVADES OUR MINDS
Chapter Thirteen INTRUSION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE MIND
Chapter Fourteen THE TURNCOAT IN EACH OF US
Chapter Fifteen TRAINING AGAINST MENTAL TORTURE
Chapter Sixteen EDUCATION FOR DISCIPLINE OR HIGHER MORALE
Chapter Seventeen FROM OLD TO NEW COURAGE
Chapter Eighteen FREEDOM—OUR MENTAL BACKBONE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
BIOGRAPHY
OBITUARY
Overview of Contents
FOREWORD
PART ONE
The Techniques of Individual Submission
Chapter One - YOU TOO WOULD CONFESS
The enforced confession. Mental coercion and enemy occupation. Witchcraft and torture. The refinement of the rack. Menticide in Korea.
Chapter Two - PAVLOV’S STUDENTS AS CIRCUS TAMERS
The salivating dog. The conditioning of man. Isolation and other factors in conditioning. Mass conditioning through speech. Political conditioning. The urge to be conditioned.
Chapter Three - MEDICATION INTO SUBMISSION
Dependency on the drug provider. The search for ecstasy through drugs. Hypnotism and mental coercion. Needling for the truth. The lie-detector. The therapist as an instrument of coercion.
Chapter Four - WHY DO THEY YIELD? THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF FALSE CONFESSION.
The upset philosopher. The barbed-wire disease. The moment of sudden surrender. The need to collapse. The need for companionship. Blackmailing through overburdening guilt feelings. The law of survival versus the law of loyalty. The mysterious masochistic pact. A survey of psychological processes involved in brainwashing and menticide.
PART TWO
The Techniques of Mass Submission
Chapter Five - THE COLD WAR AGAINST THE MIND
The public-opinion engineers. Psychological warfare as a weapon of terror. The indoctrination barrage. The enigma of coexistence.
Chapter Six - TOTALITARIA AND ITS DICTATORSHIP
The robotization of man. Cultural predilection for totalitarianism. The totalitarian leader. The final surrender of the robot man. The common retreat from reality. The retreat to automatization. The womb state.
Chapter Seven - THE INTRUSION BY TOTALITARIAN THINKING
The strategy of terror. The purging rituals. Wild accusation and black magic. Spy mania. The strategy of criminalization. Verbocracy and semantic fog— talking the people into submission. Logocide. Labelomania. The apostatic crime in Totalitaria.
Chapter Eight - TRIAL BY TRIAL
The downfall of justice. The demagogue as prosecutor and hypnotist. The trial as an instrument of intimidation. The Congressional investigation. The witness and his subjective testimony. The right to be silent. Mental blackmail. The judge and the jury. Televised interrogation. The quest for detachment.
Chapter Nine - FEAR AS A TOOL OF TERROR
The fear of living. Our fantasies about danger. Paradoxical fear. Regression. Camouflage and disguise. Explosive panics. The body takes over.
PART THREE
Unobtrusive Coercion
Chapter Ten - THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN How some totalitarians may develop. The molding nursery. The father cuts the cord.
Chapter Eleven - MENTAL CONTAGION AND MASS DELUSION
The affirmation of my own errors. Stages of thinking and delusion. The loss of verifiable reality. Mass delusion. The danger of mental contagion. The explanation delusion. The liberation from magic thinking.
Chapter Twelve - TECHNOLOGY INVADES OUR MINDS
The creeping coercion by technology. The paradox of technology.
Chapter Thirteen - INTRUSION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE MIND
The administrative mind. The ailments of those in public office. The conference of unconscious minds. The bureaucratic mind.
Chapter Fourteen - THE TURNCOAT IN EACH OF US - THE CONFUSING INFLUENCE OF THE PROBLEM OF TREASON AND LOYALTY
The involuntary traitor. The concept of treason. The traitor who consciously takes option for the other side. Our treacherous intellect. Self-betrayal. The development of loyalty. In praise of nonconformity. The loyalty compulsion.
PART FOUR
In Search of Defenses
Chapter Fifteen - TRAINING AGAINST MENTAL TORTURE
The U. S. code for resisting brainwashing. Indoctrination against indoctrination? The psychiatric report about brainwashing and menticide.
Chapter Sixteen - EDUCATION FOR DISCIPLINE OR HIGHER MORALE
The role of education. Discipline and morale. Discipline and brainwashing. The quality of the group and the influence of the leader. Enumeration of factors influencing group morale. The breaking point and our capacity for frustration.
Chapter Seventeen - FROM OLD TO NEW COURAGE
Who resists longer and why? The myth of courage. The morale-boosting idea. The new courage.
Chapter Eighteen - FREEDOM—OUR MENTAL BACKBONE
The democratizing action of psychology. The battle on two fronts. The paradox of freedom. The future age of psychology.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
FOREWORD
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.
—Matthew 10:28
This book attempts to depict the strange transformation of the free human mind into an automatically responding machine—a transformation which can be brought about by some of the cultural undercurrents in our present-day society as well as by deliberate experiments in the service of a political ideology.
The rape of the mind and stealthy mental coercion are among the oldest crimes of mankind. They probably began back in prehistoric days when man first discover