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- Dictionarybrain·wash/ˈbrānˌwôSH/
verb
- 1. make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure: "the organization could brainwash young people"
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Process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator, often to the detriment of the person being manipulated"
Brainwashing, also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education, is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introdu... Wikipedia