2024 the best minds book review

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How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are discussed in this definitive work by William Sargant. Sargant explains and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists and brainwashers to dissolve existing, established patterns of belief and then to substitute new beliefs and behaviors.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Malor Books (July 3, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1883536065
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1883536060
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.79 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Not Moses
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Too =Much= Too Late?
Review: I just finished reading the copy I purchased in 2018 for the second time.I was already way into the topic via such as Gustave Le Bon, Hannah Arendt, Eric Hoffer, Margaret Singer, Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad, R. Jay Lifton, Joost Meerloo, Jean-Marie Abgrall, S. E. Asch, Arthur Deikman, Aldous Huxley, Hans Toch, Alexandra Stein and the rest of the usual suspects. And having had to pass numerous exams on the operation of the autonomic nervous system and the general adaption syndrome's fight, flight & freeze responses, Hans Selye, Joseph Wolpe, Herbert Benson, Bruce McEwen, Robert Sapolsky, Stephen Porges and Pat Ogden.But since the election of 2016 and the events of January 2021, this tome and its implications are soooooo monumental that I had to pick it up again three months ago. And in so doing come to the inevitable conclusion that just as it is the case that the ecological doomsday machine is -- to whatever extent and result -- clearly grinding away, so, it appears, is the sociopsychological.Working with scores of mostly -- but not entirely -- young people desperate for a parachute out of the burning plane of Marlene Winell's "Religious Trauma Syndrome" for four years now, I may be too close to the fire to see the escape routes through all the smoke. But what I =do= see concerns me for the so-called "Millennial Generation" that may well be the last to be able to recall what it was like before the culture caved in under the very high-tech influence of modern mass manipulation to benefit the ruthless imperatives of what songwriter Jeff Lynne called "the thieving dukes and abbots of the land" way back in '73.I'd definitely get this =extremely= prophetic book and read it carefully. But let us consider that the best we may be able to do is take the ball from center in our own end zone down by a touchdown facing a defense of 300-pound Pro Bowl All Stars with 20 or 30 seconds left on the clock .To quote another famed songwriter named Michael McDonald, "I ain't blind, and I don't like what I think I see."

Reviewer: P. B2
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Going to thevpupoet show?
Review: This is a faith based look the Spirit of the Age. I repeat faith based and specifically Roman Catholic. A protester by disposition but also friend of Bill. I choose to see where others may be right. PB2

Reviewer: Ian G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of those turning points...
Review: The Battle for the Mind is one of those books that transformed understanding--in this case of how the physiology of religious conversion, brainwashing, and submission to totalitarian leaders was highly similar or even the same. Of course, later thinking has become more sophisticated and developed, but this remains a clear and persuasive account, and represented a breakthrough in understanding when it was first published.The book is written in language that is not technical and it can be easily understood by anyone likely to be generally interested in the subject matter.It is a good read, and anyone who is in the business of changing how others think or perceive reality (or who is subject to the work of others in this field--politicians, advertisers...)will find it insightful.

Reviewer: A Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An excellent book about brainwashing
Review: Anyone who has ever had a "religious transformation", found themselves under a lot of stress, or acting out of character should read this book. I consider this work about the four basic temperaments first outlined by Hippocrates and later studied by Pavlov in his dogs to be senior in scope to Freud, Jung and the last century of psychobabble. It is a very good foundation for beginning the study of brainwashing. It has made me more watchful as to what and whom I will allow into my personal space. It is worth the price to learn how to deal with police and other officials. I bought extra copies for my kids.Here is a good quote from the book, page 264: "The obstacles that the religious or political proselytizer cannot overcome are indifference of detached, controlled and continued amusement on the part of the subject at the efforts being made to break him down, or win him over, or tempt him into argument. The safety of the free world seems therefore to lie in a cultivation not only of courage, moral virture and logic, but of humour: humour which produces the well-balanced state in which emotional excess is laughed at as ugly and wasteful."

Reviewer: Ben
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Promoted by Martin Lloyd Jones for supplemental reading.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Whenever anyone purchase a book that has been printed by Repro India (or selling) must be duplicate book( this is not my first time I am getting duplicite printing book n always returned the product ) they always printed with bad quality papers but there price is always high most people can not even think to buy though the product price should have been like upto 500rs to 600rs. Now about content, there is no word to describe about this book and also about Author. Final thought : I'm thinking to return the product anyway and if I get original one then I will keep. Rating is not for the content it's about quality.

Reviewer: iza
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Excellent book on understanding how vulnerable and flexible our mind is. It contains the basic knowledge for anyone interested in studying the mind.

Reviewer: Dominic
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Just perfect.

Reviewer: Paul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: a great read