• ROBERT JAY LIFTON, M.D.: ‘THOUGHT REFORM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALISM: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China’.
  • Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1961 (first UK edition).
  • Octavo, x, 510 pages, hardcover in blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine, with dust jacket.
  • Lifton’s influential study of psychological coercion and ideological indoctrination, drawing on interviews with Chinese citizens and Westerners subjected to Communist Chinese thought reform. Examines the relationship between individual identity, confession and totalitarian belief.
  • RELEVANT NOW: With the dramatic increase of technology, social media and Ai, This book is even more relevant now as it was in 1961.
  • RARE: No first edition copies listed in Australia. One copy available in the US at A$260 delivered.
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