Techniques of Persuasion: From Propaganda to Brainwashing Wallace Fowlie to hear the stress that

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Techniques of Persuasion: From Propaganda to Brainwashing Wallace Fowlie to hear the stress thatAttempts to change the opinions of others are as old as human speech, but in recent years we have come to fear that our thoughts and feelings are open to manipulation by new methods and hidden techniques. To the pressures of the 'admen' are added a whole battery of hsi nao (literally wash brain') techniques. Here is a timely and much needed survey of the whole area of persuasion. Dr Brown, the author of Freud and the Post Freudians, ranges from