Concept information
Preferred term
Brainwashing
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Control, Mind
- Forced Indoctrination
- Forced Indoctrinations
- Indoctrination, Forced
- Indoctrinations, Forced
- Mind Control
- Mind Controls
Scope note
- A broad class of intense and often coercive tactics intended to produce profound changes in attitudes, beliefs, and emotions. Targets of such tactics have typically been prisoners of war and members of religious cults. (From https://dictionary.apa.org/brainwashing)
History note
- 2024
In other languages
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Finnish
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manipulaatio
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taivuttelu
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Swedish
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Mental styrning
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Sinneskontroll
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Tankekontroll
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Tankereform
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Tvångsindoktrinering
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000096965
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