Project Mind Control tells the lurid tale of the CIA's attempts to discover the scientific principles that would allow people to control subjects' thoughts and actions. The author, University of Texas ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control, brainwashing and the outer limits of influence. By Leah Greenblatt Leah Greenblatt is an editor at The Times. THE INSTABILITY OF TRUTH: ...

Clarity over credentials shapes books that rethink human behaviour, emotion, and decision-making without academic distance or ...

We asked addiction experts and people in recovery to share the titles they found most useful. By Hope Reese Six months before Kim Kearns quit drinking, she cracked open a book called, “We Are the ...

During the Korean War, Americans became obsessed with mind control. Following the bizarre confessions of American POWs in North Korea, in which captured military personnel admitted to heinous (and ...

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