Brainwashing...pressure for more answer.

Interesting answer on the history of government sponsored brainwashing. Now. Is brainwashing possible? How would I go about brainwashing someone?

Is brainwashing different from short to long term mental instability caused by sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, stress and repetetive suggestion? These techniques can deliver a certain amount of behavioral cange, or at least increase an individual’s receptivity to change as they are employed in entry level military training, but how are they at effecting longer term and more radical behavioral change–to the point of making someone unrecognizable from their former self?

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Is brainwashing possible? (18-Mar-2005)


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Could you clarify the question?