thought-reform

Myriads of false messiahs, quacks, and leaders of cults and thought-reform groups have emerged who use Orwellian mind-manipulation techniques.

Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing 2009

Fortunately, this policy and these practices will fail to accomplish their aim, just as the intense and violent Maoist campaign of "thought-reform" brainwashing and cultural destruction from 1959 to 1979 failed to eradicate the Buddha Dharma and the love of the Dalai Lama from the Tibetan heart.

Robert Thurman: China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism 2010

Fortunately, this policy and these practices will fail to accomplish their aim, just as the intense and violent Maoist campaign of "thought-reform" brainwashing and cultural destruction from 1959 to 1979 failed to eradicate the Buddha Dharma and the love of the Dalai Lama from the Tibetan heart.

China Is Attempting to Wipe Out Buddhism Robert Thurman 2010

And what about those infamous "freshman orientation" programs that provide "sensitivity training" and other such thought-reform horrors?

Allow Freedom for ROTC on Campus 2008

* Ordered to attend residence-hall training sessions and submit to one-on-one sessions with RAs, who filed reports to their superiors about individual students' "level of change or acceptance" of the thought-reform program.

Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007

* Ordered to attend residence-hall training sessions and submit to one-on-one sessions with RAs, who filed reports to their superiors about individual students' "level of change or acceptance" of the thought-reform program.

"Why should a school even bother with something like a 'Think Campaign' or a 'bias reporting mechanism'?" Ann Althouse 2007

Haggard may well end up like some of us who lived through this terrible process of thought-reform, he might carve iin his own arms, consider or try suicide, any number of self destructive actions.

Think Progress » Dobson: I Want To Cure Ted Haggard of Being Gay But Don’t Have Time, It ‘Could Take Four or Five Years’ 2006

The sequence of events during that day gave off an extraordinary Orwellian odor, as if the loquacious Mr. DiIulio had been subjected to a swift but thorough course of Republican thought-reform.

Shutting Down A Truth-Teller 2002

In Chapter 22, Lifton outlines eight criteria for when any environment can be understood as exercising "thought-reform" or mind control.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

In Chapter 22, Lifton outlines eight criteria for when any environment can be understood as exercising "thought-reform" or mind control.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009