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It is in this sense that Edgar Morin speaks about "thought reform": Thought reform would require a reform of teaching (in primary school, secondary school, university), that in turn would require a reform of thought.
Professor Lifton wrote the pioneering examination of the Communists' use of thought reform on coming to power in 1949, "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Chinese Brainwashing," first published in 1961.
Both employed techniques of thought reform.
And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
South Korea had a low crime rate and a moderate imprisonment rate, and it placed some emphasis on thought reform in its prisons.
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting -- this thought reform process -- in the military.
The story of the engineer Zhang Heng, a young intellectual sent down to the countryside for thought reform during the reign of the Gang of Four.
Aminda Smith, Professor of History at Michigan State University, investigates the methods of thought reform used on foreign POWs and disadvantaged groups in China during the Cold War era.
And I used a lot of his concepts of identity, or ego identity, in the analyses that I applied to my first book on Chinese thought reform.
Both had charismatic leaders who created an environment of to use Lifton's term—"ideological totalism". Both employed techniques of thought reform.
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