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OF THE
\tA. M. Meerloo,
THE
RAPE
OF T H E
MIND
Since 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned
human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin,
Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic
mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which
totalitarians imprint their subjective “truth” on dieir victims5 minds.
It is Dr. Meerloo’s position that through pressure on the weak
points in men’s makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a
“traitor/5 And in
The Rape of the Mind
he goes far beyond the direct
military implications o f mental torture to describing how our own
culture unobtrusively shows symptoms o f pressurizing people's minds.
He presents a systematic analysis o f the methods o f brainwashing and
mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with
its use o f mass psychology, leads to systematized “rape o f the mind.5
5
He describes the new age o f cold war with its mental terror,
verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use o f fear as a tool o f mass
submission and the problem o f treason and loyalty, so loaded with
dangerous confusion.
As JOHN D
ollard
wrote
in
The New York Times*.
“Dr. Meerloo is a passionate spokesman for the democratic
practice o f life as a general human goal, not merely as a device for
beating o ff the totalitarians ... Ever}? thinking American should take
some o f his ‘self time — his time for self-development — and read
this book. Dr. Meerloo shows in his own person what psychoanalysis
can do when it is freely combined with social science knowledge. He is
a remarkably developed individual man; indeed, he is one o f the great
spokesmen o f the democratic world, and everyone should know him.5
5
Dr. Joost Meerloo's best-known work,
The Rape of the Mind
is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and
scientists.
The first two and one-half years of World War II, Dr.
Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland,
witnessing at firsthand the Nazi methods of mental torture
.on more than one occasion. During this time he was able to
use his psychiatric and psychoanalytic knowledge to treat
some of the victims. Then, after personal experiences with
enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and
certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the
Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to
observe and study coercive methods officially.
In this capacity he had to investigate not only traitors and
collaborators, but also those members of the Resistance who
had gone through the utmost of mental pressure. Later, as
High Cmmissioner for Welfare, he came in closer contact with
those who had gone through physical and mental torture.
After the war, he came to the United States, where his war
experiences would not permit him to concentrate solely on his
psychiatric practice, but compelled him to go beyond purely
medical aspects to the social aspects of the problem.
As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing,
and mental coercion were disclosed — Cardinal Mindszenty,
Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others — his interest
grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word
menticide,
the
killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime. His knowledge of
these totalitarian procedures has been officially acknowl­
edged; he served as an expert witness in the case of Colonel
Schwable, the Marine Corps officer who, after months of
subjection to physical and mental torture following his
capture in Korea, was made to confess to having taken part in
germ warfare.
JOOST A. M. MEERLOO, M.D.
RAPE
OF THE
THE
HIND
THE P S Y C H O L O G Y OF
THOUGHT CONTROL, MENT I CI DE ,
AND B RA I N WAS H I N G
The Uni¥ersal Library
GROSSET
&
DUNLAP
NEW YORK
THE RAPE OF
THE HIND
The Psychology of Thought
Controli Menticidei and
Brainwashing
by J o o st A . M. M eerloo, M D
Facsimile ofthe original 1956 Edition, reprinted by
Progressive Press.com,
PO Box 126,
Joshua Tree, Calif., 92252
First reprinting, July, 2009. Printed in the USA.
ISBN -10:1-61577-376-2, EAN/ISBN-13: 978-1-61577-376-3
Library of Congress Catalog Information for the Original Edition:
LC Control No.: 56009252. LC Classification: BF633 .M4.
Dewey Class No.: 131.33.
Tide: The rape of the mind; the psychology of thought control, menticide, and
brainwashing
Author: Meerloo, Joost Abraham Maurits, 1903-
320 p. 22 cm
Subjects: Brainwashing.
Prw SSm
M
2009

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