Brainwashing Research Paper
Jarrod Felty
January 10, 2006
Psychology Report
I will be discussing with you the topics of brainwashing and cult-like behaviors. I'll be explaining the effects of brainwashing on the human mind and how it appeals other into it's dark and unknown world of misbeliefs. Brainwashing has played a major role in cult-like behaviors, everything from gang related activities to the KKK. Cults are a system or community of religious worship and rituals that are emtremist or false guidance. Brainwashing is intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs. Modern day cults have new members that join around …show more content…
Even though some are more obivously vulnerable than others, which the cult members seduce first. Any hosts of depressional actions may make and individual feel anxious, uncertain, hurt, lonely, unloved, confused or guilty and is a main target for the cults. These members usually are planted around college guidance counselor's offices ready to pounce on any victim that may have felt disappointed by the action the guidance counselor took. These members "sell" their remedies to the kids "hooking" them into joining their "club. This is all a scheme to emotionally control the person and submit them to their fears and fight for the wrong reasons(Fleming, …show more content…
They must work 14-20 hour days with only 5 hours of sleeping. They must set impossible goals for witnessing or litnessing(selling cult literature) both numerical and monetary. Frequent fasting or intensive severe dieting during the work days. Separation of marriage between men and women, but can be permitted by leader's approval. Removal of all privacy with many restrictions on being alone. Denial of one's self among other and for the good of the group or "family". Throw out all mirrors so that their personalities are lost. Reject themselves from family ties and with anyone that is
January 10, 2006
Psychology Report
I will be discussing with you the topics of brainwashing and cult-like behaviors. I'll be explaining the effects of brainwashing on the human mind and how it appeals other into it's dark and unknown world of misbeliefs. Brainwashing has played a major role in cult-like behaviors, everything from gang related activities to the KKK. Cults are a system or community of religious worship and rituals that are emtremist or false guidance. Brainwashing is intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs. Modern day cults have new members that join around …show more content…
Even though some are more obivously vulnerable than others, which the cult members seduce first. Any hosts of depressional actions may make and individual feel anxious, uncertain, hurt, lonely, unloved, confused or guilty and is a main target for the cults. These members usually are planted around college guidance counselor's offices ready to pounce on any victim that may have felt disappointed by the action the guidance counselor took. These members "sell" their remedies to the kids "hooking" them into joining their "club. This is all a scheme to emotionally control the person and submit them to their fears and fight for the wrong reasons(Fleming, …show more content…
They must work 14-20 hour days with only 5 hours of sleeping. They must set impossible goals for witnessing or litnessing(selling cult literature) both numerical and monetary. Frequent fasting or intensive severe dieting during the work days. Separation of marriage between men and women, but can be permitted by leader's approval. Removal of all privacy with many restrictions on being alone. Denial of one's self among other and for the good of the group or "family". Throw out all mirrors so that their personalities are lost. Reject themselves from family ties and with anyone that is