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Renovating someone's beliefs while they're still living inside them.
means Systematically pressuring a person to abandon their own convictions and adopt someone else's, usually through isolation, repetition, and stress.
from A literal translation of the Chinese xi nao, scrub the brain, coined by journalist Edward Hunter in 1950 to describe Mao-era thought reform of Chinese citizens.
Cold War debutPopularized to explain Korean POWs praising their captors.
Science skepticalMost psychologists doubt permanent mind control actually exists.
CIA triedProject MKUltra spent years chasing it, fruitlessly.