From page 16 of this article, the author quotes “Rape of the Mind” written by Joost Meerloo, a Psychiatry Professor at Columbia University who was an expert in psychological warfare, Communist brainwashing/propaganda techniques.
Here is what is said:
Rape of the Mind discusses psychological conditioning from World War II Nazi tactics, to Soviet Cold-War
theoreticians, to our own democracy. (See Chapter 2 – Mass Conditioning Through Speech, and Political
Conditioning.36 The Book also discusses the dangers of the real phenomenon of mass hypnosis:
Suggestion and hypnosis are considered by some to be a psychological blessing, but they can also be
the beginning of terror. Mass hypnosis, for example, can have a dangerous influence on the
individual. Psychiatrists have found several times that public demonstrations of mass hypnosis may
provoke an increased hypnotic dependency and submissiveness in many members of the audience
that can last for years. Largely for this reason Great Britain has passed a law making seances and
mass hypnotism illegal. Hypnosis may act as a trigger mechanism for a repressed dependency need
in the victim and turn him temporarily into a kind of waking sleep-walker and mental slave. The
hypnotic command relieves him of his personal responsibility, and he surrenders much of his
conscience to his hypnotizer. As we mentioned before, our own times have provided us with far too
many examples of how political hypnosis, mob hypnosis, and eveven war hypnosis can turn civilized
men into criminals.
34 THE RAPE OF THE MIND: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo,
M.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social Research, Former
Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces, published in 1956, World Publishing Company. (Out of Print) Book
available online at http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/mc-ch1.html