brainwashing

The term “brainwashing” dates to 1950, when a journalist and former OSS member named Edward Hunter wrote an article explaining why, in the waning days of the Korean War, American POWs defected to Korea and China.

Over time, this brainwashing eats away at the psyche of youth as they grow and leads to the high rates of mental health issues in LGBTQ youth.

So when we were thinking of interesting things that Chip could do to Dory, we started to look at people like Elizabeth Smart or Patty Hearst—and how brainwashing is a very real thing that’s been employed for thousands of years.

The gun control lobby engages in emotional brainwashing to further its attempts at disarming the American people.

“Immediately the brainwashing began,” Egan told The Daily Beast.

“I think of a cult as brainwashing followers in some kind of weird philosophy,” he wrote in an email.

Why comics are diversifying—and what their creators say to groups accusing them of 'brainwashing' kids.

This would have been the best way of demystifying this man, debunking his cause and de-brainwashing his followers.

The Lhari don't watch me too closely—they figure that anything I do they'll catch in the brainwashing.

They should have done a better job of brainwashing, if they expected him to skulk in like a scared rabbit!

The world was going to be run by telepaths, psychosis eliminated by brainwashing, intellect developed by hypnotic suggestion.

But the targets of this brainwashing will do well to look to their Central European neighbours for an antidote.

The voice chuckled, then said, "I haven't tried brainwashing yet."