• Totalism

    Noun

    totalism

    (uncountable)
    1. totalitarianism
    "totalism", Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. (2008). Merriam-Webster Online. accessed 7 December 2008
    1. doctrine of wholeness which may involve brainwashing
    Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. (1989) UNC Press. ISBN 0807842532.
      • 1989, w, w:Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, The more clearly an environment expresses these eight psychological themes, the greater its resemblance to ideological totalism; and the more it utilizes such totalist devices to change people, the greater its resemblance to thought reform (or "brainwashing".)

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