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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

  • Finnish

  • manipulaatio
  • taivuttelu
  • Swedish

  • Mental styrning
  • Sinneskontroll
  • Tankekontroll
  • Tankereform
  • Tvångsindoktrinering

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000096965

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