Description

Seminal tract from renowned psychologist Joost A.M. Meerloo on the application of mind control and brainwashing techniques on the individual and the collective.

"The vanishing species of renaissance men in the field of psychiatry has been further depleted with the passing of Joost Meerloo—psychoanalyst, writer, loyal contributor and member of the Board of Consultants to this Review for many years.

Dr. Meerloo was a man of outstanding accomplishments. Author of 43 books and monographs and over 1,000 essays, he won worldwide renown as an authority on psychological warfare, especially on the techniques of brainwashing explored in his representative work, The Rape of the Mind (1956). From the early Thirties, his wide ranging interests blazed a trail in writings on the psychology of drug addiction, correlatives between cancer and emotional illness, the phenomenology of time, problems of death and aging, art and dance symbolism, interpersonal communication, parapsychology and a host of other topics."