Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

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By Robert Jay Lifton

Norton, 1961, 510 pp

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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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