...so effective as a technique of extrinsic mental coercion that a person could be turned into a robot: The intent is to change a mind radically so that its owner becomes a living puppet—a human robot—without the atrocity being visible from the outside. The aim is to create...

...Orwell is talking about is something which used to be called "brainwashing," the intent of which was to "change a mind radically so that its owner becomes a living puppet.. .a mechanism in flesh and blood" (Hunter 285) but ironically, the concept became a "brainwashing" technique...

...totalitarian states on political dissidents Definition of 'brain washing' in the Oxford English Dictionary The intent is to change a mind radically so that its...and new thought processes inserted into a captive body. What that amounts to is the search for a slave race that, unlike the slaves of olden times, can...

...kind of robot or zombie through the use of Pavlovian conditioning, hypnotic trances, and other means. "The intent is to change a mind radically so that...human robot — without the atrocity being visible . . . with new beliefs and new thought processes inserted into a captive body" (Hunter 196o: 3o9)....

...Hunter of the Miami Daily News coined the word 'brainwashing' to describe communist mind perversion. 'The intent is to change a mind radically so that...without the atrocity being visible from the outside', wrote Hunter in Brainwashing (1960), one of several books on the subject that he authored. Hunter,...