Reviews for Brainwashing and other forms of mind control

The average rating for Brainwashing and other forms of mind control based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-07 00:00:00 Cathy Thomas I read this towards the end of college, after I'd committed to a Religious Studies degree. Although I'd end up doing a major thesis on the debates about the origins of gnosticism, my real focus was on the history of psychotherapeutics, particularly depth psychologies, subjects which the Religious Studies Department was much more amenable to sponsoring than the behaviorist Psychology Department was. Still, while thinking myself a humanistic psychologist, it was important to understand the other currents in the field, so I sought them out. Skinner was really big when I was in college, maybe because he had written a number of easy, polemical books like Walden Two and this one, Beyond Freedom and Dignity. A professor could easily get students engaged in heated debate by assigning some Skinner and some R.D. Laing, one right after the other. And that is what happened in a group seminar I took during the junior year. We read Skinner, Laing, Fritz Perls, Carl Rogers, Ludwig Binswanger, Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm etc.--a general survey of who was hot in popular psychology in the universities of the day. While I always had some animus against Skinner and the radical behaviorists, I also had a lot of intellectual respect for their cool, clear scientific detachment. The tension I felt between their manipulative clinical-experimental approach and those of other psychologists with more democratic and libertarian perspectives kept me going, academically speaking, throughout two graduate programs and still can excite me today.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-01 00:00:00 Charlotte Pemberton Readers of this book will respond to it as they have been conditioned to and they will do so according to some of the processes covered in this book. Dr. Skinner dedicated his life to understanding the behavior of organisms. He is the Darwin of psychology. His scientific contributions and theories are to most readers what the contributions of Darwin and the theory of evolution is to creationists. Are you a creationist?