Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing
by William Walters Sargant

ABOUT THE BOOK

Dee Jessop (djessop@cybernet1.com), an engineering consultant, February 25, 1999,
Deeply Thought Provoking
This book is written in a style that is at first a bit technical, but the material is profoundly interesting, sometimes disturbing, and definitly relavent. It has a broad range of implications about the nature of control, manipulation, mental breakdown, fear, and what happens to the mind under stress. One of the most important books I've ever read.

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This book gives very clear explanations of the concepts of "conditioning" and "brainwashing". Sargant offers many examples of the physiology of these practices, both from history and from psychiatric literature. Although the theory of "conditioning" is associated with B.F. Skinner, Sargant is no strict behaviorist. He tries to be objective and bases his views on observation. While many psychologists and psychiatrists effectively ignore and attempt to eradicate the notion of consciousness (as the Skinnerians did), Sargant's work is geared toward at making it possible for people to have more awareness of their consciousness -- and to thereby protect themselves from organized efforts to usurp it.

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