Before Pavlov : torture and conversion
Part I. Government and academe. Pavlov's dogs and the Soviet show trials
Extracting information with drugs : the military's quest in World War II
A Cold War prelude to Korea
The Korean War and the birth of brainwashing
The CIA strikes back : dead bodies
Dead memories : the Canadian legacy of Ewen Cameron
Part II. Criminals and religious groups. Flash conversion of hostages : Stockholm Syndrome and its variants
Patricia Hearst : where Stockholm met indoctrination
From racial harmony to death in the jungle
Heaven's Gate : beliefs or delusions?
Part III. Into the twenty-first century. The beleaguered persistence of brainwashing
The future of brainwashing in neuroscience and social media.
