Brainwashing
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Tuesday November 3, 2009
Brainwashing:
Cult expert Steven Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor from Massachusetts, has spent the last three decades using his two-year experience in the Moonies cult to dissect brainwashing that occurs when someone joins a cult or is abducted.
He shared his story during a speech titled “Psychology of Mind Control Over Abducted Children” at the National Amber Alert Training Symposium, which is sponsored by the Justice Department.
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Wednesday April 16, 2008
Brainwashing • Scientology:
Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a “brainwashed, robotic version of you.” [video]
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Brainwashing • FLDS • Polygamy:
Between hysterical sobs, the women of the Yearning for Zion Ranch in rural Texas tearily pleaded Monday for the return of their children from state custody, but at the mere turn of a phrase, those tears mysteriously, uniformly stopped. So, are these women just fanatically, independently religious, or are they victims of something more sinister, like mind control? Mental health professionals told ABCNEWS.com that it may all depend on how you define brainwashing.
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Friday January 12, 2007
Brainwashing:
Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them. They were subjected to massive electroshocks, experimental drugs and LSD, all at the behest of the CIA, a federal court was told on Wednesday. Now it’s time for the federal government to compensate the hundreds of victims whose lives were damaged, argued lawyer Alan Stein.
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Monday September 11, 2006
Brainwashing:
A counsellor who brainwashed her client into giving her more than £200,000 has been jailed for five years.
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Wednesday August 9, 2006
Brainwashing:
Brainwasher conned £250,000
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Sunday October 2, 2005
Brainwashing:
Charles Clarke is studying proposals to combat Islamic terrorist groups by treating them as religious cults.
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Sunday August 1, 2004
Brainwashing:
Director Jonathan Demme fiddles with the classics again. After a remake of "Charade," he now offers up "The Manchurian Candidate" for a nervous, post Sept. 11 era.
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Monday May 10, 2004
Brainwashing:
WAKAYAMA -- A man who brainwashed an adopted son into killing himself so he could claim a hefty insurance payout on a car took elaborate measures to make sure his plan would work, police said.
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Tuesday May 4, 2004
Brainwashing:
Deleting memories is simple with computers, but as the movie Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind shows, it's still - as far as humans are concerned - the stuff of science fiction. Or is it?
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Friday March 19, 2004
Brainwashing:
For Fort Lauderdale church, quick dismissal would be a spring break
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Thursday March 4, 2004
Brainwashing:
Thursday, March 4, 2004 Ex-cultist Karen Robidoux is just one of several mind-control group escapees recovering from a life of brainwashing at a unique Lakeville deprogramming center.
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Wednesday February 18, 2004
Brainwashing:
The man accused of keeping a woman as a slave in the garage of his family home was an evil predator, a jury heard yesterday.
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Brainwashing:
A woman broke down in the witness box yesterday as she described being turned into "a complete zombie" by the man accused of treating her like a slave.
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Wednesday December 10, 2003
Brainwashing:
Summary: Sniper case puts cult indoctrination to the test.
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Friday November 21, 2003
Brainwashing:
Sniper Suspect's Claim Triggers More Debate
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Tuesday November 18, 2003
Brainwashing:
Malvo's Mind-Set At Heart of Defense
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Thursday June 26, 2003
Brainwashing:
CNN, June 26, 2003
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Friday March 21, 2003
Brainwashing:
Redlands Daily Facts, Mar. 20, 2003
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Tuesday March 18, 2003
Brainwashing:
AP, Mar. 17, 2003
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Sunday March 16, 2003
Brainwashing:
Chicago Tribune, via Contra Costa Times, Mar. 15, 2003
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Saturday March 15, 2003
Brainwashing:
Specialists in the psychology of abuse and persuasion say survival, not mind control, could explain the girl's behavior.
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Friday March 14, 2003
Brainwashing:
The Salt Lake Tribune, Mar. 14, 2003
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Brainwashing:
Elizabeth Smart Returns Home a Changed Girl
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Brainwashing:
Elizabeth Smart may have begun to identify with her abductors, expert says
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- Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology Is 'Brainwashing'
- 'I was a zombie slave' woman claims
- Captive girl's actions hint at brainwashing
- How brainwashing came to life and thrived
- Brainwasher conned clients out of money
- Brainwash victims get help putting pieces back
- Sect Members: Brainwashed or Believers? Experts Question Whether Polygamist Sect Members are Victims of Brainwashing.
- The mystery of mind control
- Clarke wants terrorists treated like victims of cult brainwashing
- Lawyers claim Malvo brainwashed
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