Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 Before Pavlov: Torture and Conversion 1
Part I Government and Academe
2 Pavlov's Dogs and the Soviet Show Trials 15
3 Extracting Information with Drugs: The Military's Quest in World War II 33
4 A Cold War Prelude to Korea 51
5 The Korean War and the Birth of Brainwashing 62
6 The CIA Strikes Back: Dead Bodies 82
7 Dead Memories: The Canadian Legacy of Ewen Cameron 103
Part II Criminals and Preligious Groups
8 Flash Conversion of Hostages: Stockholm Syndrome and Its Variants 125
9 Patricia Hearst: Where Stockholm Met Indoctrination 136
10 From Racial Harmony to Death in the Jungle 160
11 Heaven's Gate: Beliefs or Delusions? 184
Part III Into the Twenty-First Century
12 The Beleaguered Persistence of Brainwashing 205
13 The Future of Brainwashing in Neuroscience and Social Media 212
Afterword 227
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 233
Index 275