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Chapter 1: Types of Mind
Control
The idea of mind control has been
around for many years now. People
have had both fascination and fear of
what would happen if someone where
able to control their minds and make
them do things against their will.
Conspiracy theories run abound about
government officials and other people
of power using their talents to control
what small groups of people are doing.
Even some court cases have been
brought up using the excuse of
brainwashing as an explanation for why
they committed the crime they are
accused of. Despite the dramatization
of mind control that has been portrayed
in the media and the movies, there is
little that is known about the different
types of mind control and how each of
them work. This chapter will explore a
little bit about the most common types
of mind control as an introduction to
explaining more about this interesting
topic.
While there are many different types of
mind control that can be used to
control the intended victim, there are
five that are most commonly thought
of. These include brainwashing,
hypnosis, manipulation, persuasion,
and deception. These will all be
discussed below.
Brainwashing
Brainwashing is the first type of mind
control to discuss. Brainwashing is
basically the process where someone
will be connived to abandon beliefs
that they had in the past in order to take
new ideals and values. There are a lot
of ways that this can be done although
not all of them will be considered bad.
For example, if you are from an
African country and then move to
America, you will often be forced to
change your values and ideals in order
to fit in with the new culture and
surroundings that you are in. On the
other hand, those in concentration
camps or when a new dictator
government is taking over, they will
often go through the process of
brainwashing in order to convince
citizens to follow along peacefully.
Many people have misconceptions of
what brainwashing is. Some people
have more paranoid ideas about the
practice including mind control devices
that are sponsored by the government
and that are thought to be easily turned
on like a remote control. On the other
side of things, there are skeptics who
do not believe that brainwashing is
possible at all and that anyone who
claims it has happened is lying. For the
most part, the practice of brainwashing
will land somewhere in the middle of
these two ideas.
During the practice of brainwashing,
the subject will be convinced to change
their beliefs about something through a
combination of different tactics. There
is not just one approach that can be
used during this process so it can be
difficult to put the practice into a neat
little box. For the most part, the subject
will be separated from all of the things
that they know. From there, they will
be broken down into an emotional state
that makes them vulnerable before the
new concepts are introduced. As the
subject absorbs this new information,
they will be rewarded for expressing
ideas and thoughts which go along with
these new ideas. The rewarding is what
will be used in order to reinforce the
brainwashing that is occurring.
Brainwashing is not something that is
new to society. People have been using
these techniques for a long time. For
example, in a historical context, those
who were prisoners of wars were often
broken down before being persuaded to
changes sides. Some of the most
successful cases of these would result
in the prisoner becoming a very fervent
convert to the new side. These
practices were very new in the
beginning and would often be enforced
depending on who was in charge. Over
time, the term of brainwashing was
developed and some more techniques
were introduced in order to make the
practice more universal. The newer
techniques would rely on the field of
psychology since many of those ideas
were used to demonstrate how people
might change their minds through
persuasion.
There are many steps that go along
with the brainwashing process. It is not
something that is going to just happen
to you when you walk down the street
and talk to someone that you have just
met. First off, one of the main
requirements that come with
brainwashing being successful is that
the subject must be kept in isolation. If
the subject is able to be around other
people and influences, they will learn
how to think as an individual and the
brainwashing will not be effective at
all.
Once the subject is in isolation, they
will undergo a process that is meant to
break down their own self. They are
told that all the things they know are
false and are made to feel like
everything they do is wrong. After
months of going through all of this, the
subject will feel like they are bad and
the guilt is going to overwhelm them.
Once they have reached this point, the
agent will start to lead them towards
the new belief system and identity that
is desired. The subject will be led to
believe that the new choices are all
their own and so it is more likely to
stick.
The whole process of brainwashing can
take many months to even years. It is
not something that is going to happen
in just a conversation and for the most
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