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| - | '''Brainwashing''' (also known as '''mind control''', '''menticide''', '''coercive persuasion''', '''thought control''', '''thought reform''', and '''re-education''') is the concept that the [[human mind]] can be altered or controlled by certain [[psychological]] techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject’s ability to [[think]] critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into the subject’s mind, as well as to change their attitudes, values, and beliefs. | + | '''Abusive power and control''' (or '''controlling behaviour''' or '''coercive control''') is the way that abusers gain and maintain [[Power (social and political)|power]] and control over a victim for an [[abusive]] purpose such as [[psychological abuse|psychological]], [[physical abuse|physical]], [[sexual abuse|sexual]], or [[financial abuse|financial]] abuse. The abuse can be for various reasons such as personal gain, personal [[gratification]], [[psychological projection]], [[Idealization and devaluation|devaluation]], [[acting out]], [[envy]] or just for the sake of it as the abuser may simply enjoy exercising power and control. |
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| - | The concept of brainwashing was originally developed during the [[Korean War]] to explain how Chinese captors appeared to make American [[prisoners of war]] cooperate with them. Advocates of the concept also looked at [[Nazi Germany]] and at some criminal cases in the United States. The concept of mind control was later expanded and modified by psychologists including [[Margaret Singer]] and [[Philip Zimbardo]] to explain conversions to some [[new religious movements]] (NRMs). This resulted in [[scientific]] and [[legal]] debate; with [[Eileen Barker]], [[James Richardson (sociologist)|James Richardson]], and other scholars, as well as legal experts, rejecting at least the popular understanding of the concept. | + | |
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| - | Other views have been expressed by scholars including: [[Dick Anthony]], [[Robert Cialdini]], [[Stanley A. Deetz]], [[Michael J. Freeman]], [[Robert Jay Lifton]], [[Joost Meerloo]], [[Daniel Romanovsky]], [[Kathleen Taylor (biologist)|Kathleen Taylor]], [[Louis Jolyon West]], and [[Benjamin Zablocki]]. The concept of brainwashing is sometimes involved in legal cases, especially regarding [[child custody]]; and is also a major theme in both [[science fiction]] and in criticism of modern [[political]] and [[corporate culture]]. However, in the view of most scholars, it is not accepted as [[scientific fact]]. | + | |
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| - | * [[Abusive power and control]] | + | * [[Adult-to-adult narcissistic abuse]] |
| - | * [[Diminished responsibility]] | + | * [[Abuse of power]] |
| - | * [[Electronic harassment]] | + | * [[Blackmail]] |
| - | * [[Gaslighting]] | + | * [[Child grooming]] |
| - | * [[German-occupied Europe]] | + | * [[Cycle of violence]] |
| - | * [[Homo Sovieticus]] | + | * [[Disengaging from an abuser using the no contact rule or grey rock method]] |
| - | * [[Hypnosis]] | + | * [[Elder abuse]] |
| - | * [[Isolation to facilitate abuse]] | + | * [[Enabling]] |
| - | * [[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience]] | + | * [[Expressions of dominance]] |
| - | * [[MKULTRA]] (a covert [[CIA]] research program) | + | * [[Extortion]] |
| - | * [[Political abuse of psychiatry]] | + | * [[Mind control]] |
| - | * [[Socialization]] | + | * ''[[Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America]]'' |
| - | * [[Stockholm syndrome]] | + | * [[Protection racket]] |
| - | * [[Unethical human experimentation in the United States]] | + | * [[Victim playing]] |
| - | * [[Duluth model]] | + | |
| - | * [[Psychological warfare]] | + | |
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Abusive power and control (or controlling behaviour or coercive control) is the way that abusers gain and maintain power and control over a victim for an abusive purpose such as psychological, physical, sexual, or financial abuse. The abuse can be for various reasons such as personal gain, personal gratification, psychological projection, devaluation, acting out, envy or just for the sake of it as the abuser may simply enjoy exercising power and control.
See also
- Adult-to-adult narcissistic abuse
- Abuse of power
- Blackmail
- Child grooming
- Cycle of violence
- Disengaging from an abuser using the no contact rule or grey rock method
- Elder abuse
- Enabling
- Expressions of dominance
- Extortion
- Mind control
- Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America
- Protection racket
- Victim playing
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