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brainwashing is more than neurosis or psychosis. Such states may be
induced as part of the brainwashing process, but they are only a step on the way
to the goal of forcing the victim to succumb to the propaganda of the brainwashers.
Edward Hunter’s books, Brain-washing in Red China and Brainwashing, themselves
fine pieces of propaganda, emphasize the deliberate, mechanistic malice of
the Communist enemy. Brainwashing is characterized in wholly negative terms
as a kind of mental rape: it is forced upon the victim by an attacker whose intention
is to destroy the victim’s faith in former beliefs, to wipe the slate clean so that
new beliefs may be adopted.