Talk:Brainwashing

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• The CCF segregated the POWs according to rank, race and nationality and created interrogation and indoctrination programs. With their indoctrination program, the CCF tested each prisoner's faith in the democratic process, but the Chinese sought publicity more than converts to communism. Daily propaganda lectures and broadcasts that attacked capitalist society were conducted, and the CCF persuaded some POWs to sign peace petitions and make pro-communist statements. The term "brainwashing" obtained notoriety at this time and caused concern to American authorities. Brainwashing was defined as an intense and prolonged psychological process designed to erase an individual's past beliefs and to substitute new ones. Even though some American POWs collaborated with their captors, most of them did so for personal convenience. No confirmed cases of brainwashing came out of the Korean War. [1]

I guess I was wrong here. Probably mixing up the plot of The Manchurian Candidate with the real history of the time.

The quote I cited above makes no mention of hypnosis, but of "indoctrination". This would seem to require a conscious subject. --Ed Poor 15:41, 5 April 2007 (EDT)