Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive
persuasion, mind abuse, menticide, thought control, or thought reform) refers
to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses
unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of
the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being
manipulated". The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or
otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control
over their own thinking, behaviour, emotions or decision making.
Theories of
brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how
totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed systematically in indoctrinating
prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. 
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