In This Review
In This Review

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
By Robert Jay Lifton
Norton, 1961, 510 pp.
While this study, by a doctor and psychiatrist, deals centrally with "brainwashing" in Communist China it also involves broader considerations of totalism--the tendency toward "all-or-nothing emotional alignment."
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