Overview

Kathleen Taylor brings together for the first time the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology to examine the way humans have attempted throughout history to influence and control the thoughts of others. The term brainwashing was coined shortly after the Korean War, but the concept has been with us ever since humans began to interact with one another. In this compelling and thought-provoking book, Taylor explores the history and the science of thought control and shows how it still exists all around us, from marketing and television to politics and education.

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An ambitious and well-written study The Guardian

`A magisterially detailed survey... Taylor is never less than 1irect and engaging. The subject may be difficult but the writing never is. With no hint at all of academic pretension, this is a model of how to make hard science accessible without rendering it impossibly watered down or patronising. This is an outstanding book. Academic researchers and human rights professionals will find it a goldmine of relevant research and information. And anyone else interested in psychology will find it a thrill.' Focus Magazine 12/2004 `The book is to be commended. Taylor writes engagingly.' THES `I can't remember when I last encountered such a thoroughly argued book which was also so accessible. A miracle of cogency.' Morning Star

Author Information

Kathleen Taylor is a research scientist in the Department of Physiology at the University of Oxford. She has been long-listed for the 2005 Aventis Science Book Prize, and short-listed for the MIND Book of the Year Award, and in 2003 she won first prize in both the THES/OUP Science Essay competition and the THES Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize.

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