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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media (2021) [audiobook+ebook]

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A harrowing account of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.

Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations, Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted, governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response, a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration, indoctrination during sleep, and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story—one that hasn't yet ended.

File Duration
01. Preface.mp3 15m25s
02. Before Pavlov- Torture and Conversion.mp3 31m3s
03. Pavlovs Dogs and the Soviet Show Trials.mp3 44m13s
04. Extracting Information with Drugs- The Militarys Quest in World War II.mp3 46m45s
05. A Cold War Prelude to Korea.mp3 26m58s
06. The Korean War and the Birth of Brainwashing.mp3 56m45s
07. The CIA Strikes Back- Dead Bodies.mp3 55m28s
08. Dead Memories- The Canadian Legacy of Ewen Cameron.mp3 49m20s
09. Flash Conversion of Hostages- Stockholm Syndrome and Its Variants.mp3 29m24s
10. Patricia Hearst- Where Stockholm Met Indoctrination Part I.mp3 33m40s
11. Patricia Hearst- Where Stockholm Met Indoctrination Part II.mp3 31m37s
12. From Racial Harmony to Death in the Jungle Part I.mp3 32m57s
13. From Racial Harmony to Death in the Jungle Part II.mp3 31m46s
14. Heavens Gate- Beliefs or Delusions.mp3 46m43s
15. The Beleaguered Persistence of Brainwashing.mp3 13m5s
16. The Future of Brainwashing in Neuroscience and Social Media.mp3 40m27s
17. Afterword.mp3 3m33s
Total Duration 9h49m09s

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Interesting, thanks!