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New Religious Movements

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

by Robert Jay Lifton

Lifton's study of Chinese thought-reform programmes, based on interviews with Westerners and Chinese who had undergone them. His eight criteria of 'ideological totalism' were later applied to cults. An important work for understanding the brainwashing debate.

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