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Q & A – What is “Thought Reform, Brainwashing and Perspecticide?”

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“Perspecticide” is not a commonly used term and may refer to different things in different contexts. However, if you are referring to a technique commonly known as “brainwashing” or “thought reform,” it is a process of using various psychological and social manipulation tactics to control and manipulate an individual’s thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.

This technique typically involves isolating the victim from their support systems and subjecting them to intense physical and emotional stress, along with a constant barrage of persuasive messages. The goal is to break down their existing beliefs and values and replace them with a new ideology or worldview that aligns with the agenda of the person or group performing the brainwashing.

Some common tactics used in brainwashing include creating a sense of dependency on the perpetrator, inducing guilt or shame, inducing fear, and limiting access to information that contradicts the new belief system. The victim may also be subjected to sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, or other forms of physical and psychological torture to weaken their resistance and make them more susceptible to manipulation.

It is important to note that brainwashing is considered a controversial and potentially unethical practice. It is often associated with cults, extremist groups, and authoritarian regimes, and can have lasting psychological effects on the victim, even after they have left the situation.

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Q & A – What is the treatment for a brainwashed child?

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The treatment for a brainwashed child typically involves a combination of therapy, education, and support for both the child and their family. The goal of treatment is to help the child recover from the effects of the brainwashing and rebuild their sense of self and trust in others.

Here are some of the key components of treatment for a brainwashed child:

  1. Therapy: Individual and family therapy can be critical for helping a brainwashed child process their experiences and develop coping skills. Therapy can help the child identify their own thoughts and feelings, separate them from those of the manipulator, and learn to trust their own perceptions.
  2. Education: Education about brainwashing, cults, and abusive relationships can help a child and their family understand what has happened and why. This can also help them recognize warning signs of manipulation in the future.
  3. Support: Support from friends, family members, and other trusted individuals can be important for a child’s recovery. It can provide a safe and supportive environment where the child can express their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
  4. Safety: Ensuring the child’s physical and emotional safety is critical. This may involve taking legal action to prevent further contact between the child and the manipulator, and providing a secure and stable home environment.

It is important to note that the treatment for a brainwashed child can be a long and difficult process, and the child may need ongoing support and treatment as they continue to recover. It is also important to work with a qualified mental health professional who has experience with brainwashing and related issues.

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Q & A – What does brainwashing do to a child?

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Brainwashing, also known as coercive persuasion, can have serious negative effects on a child’s well-being. When a child is exposed to intense and systematic psychological manipulation, they may experience a range of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes.

Here are some of the potential effects of brainwashing on a child:

  1. Loss of sense of self: Brainwashing can cause a child to question their own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, and replace them with those of the manipulator. This can lead to a loss of their sense of self and identity.
  2. Anxiety and fear: Brainwashing can be a highly stressful and anxiety-provoking experience for a child. They may feel isolated, confused, and frightened about their situation.
  3. Lack of trust: A child who has been brainwashed may have difficulty trusting others, including family members, friends, and authority figures.
  4. Depression and emotional distress: Brainwashing can be traumatic for a child, and they may experience feelings of depression, hopelessness, and emotional distress as a result.
  5. Difficulty making decisions: A child who has been brainwashed may have difficulty making decisions for themselves, as they may have been conditioned to rely on the manipulator for guidance and direction.
  6. Problems with relationships: Brainwashing can affect a child’s ability to form healthy relationships with others, as they may struggle with trust and communication.

It is important to note that these effects can vary depending on the severity and duration of the brainwashing, as well as the child’s individual personality and coping mechanisms. Early intervention and treatment can be critical to help a child recover from the effects of brainwashing and rebuild a sense of self and trust in others.

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Q & A – Is parental alienation brainwashing?

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Parental alienation and brainwashing are two related concepts that describe situations in which one parent attempts to turn a child against the other parent. While they are often used interchangeably, there are some differences between the two.

Parental alienation refers to a situation in which one parent actively and intentionally undermines the relationship between a child and the other parent. This can take many forms, such as making negative comments about the other parent, withholding visitation or communication, or manipulating the child’s emotions to turn them against the other parent.

Brainwashing, on the other hand, refers to a situation in which one parent attempts to completely reprogram the child’s thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors through systematic and intense psychological manipulation. This can involve using tactics such as isolation, intimidation, and indoctrination to control the child’s perceptions and beliefs.

While both parental alienation and brainwashing can have serious negative effects on a child’s well-being, brainwashing is generally considered to be more extreme and abusive. It involves a level of psychological control and manipulation that can be highly damaging to a child’s sense of self and well-being.

It is important to note that parental alienation and brainwashing are not recognized as official diagnoses in the DSM-5, and there is ongoing debate among mental health professionals about the best ways to address these complex family dynamics. However, many experts agree that early intervention and treatment can be key to preventing long-term harm to the child and the family system as a whole.

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Coercive psychological persuasion

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Coercive psychological persuasion is a form of influence that uses psychological tactics to manipulate a person into doing something they would not normally do. It is different from other forms of influence because it relies on psychological tactics to manipulate a person’s emotions and thoughts in order to get them to do something they would not normally do. It is often used in situations where the person being influenced is in a vulnerable position and is not able to make an informed decision.

What is Coercive psychological persuasion?

Coercive psychological persuasion is a form of psychological manipulation that is used to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors. It is a form of psychological manipulation that is used to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors by using psychological pressure, threats, or intimidation. This type of persuasion is often used in situations where the person being persuaded is in a vulnerable position and is not able to make an informed decision.

Examples of Coercive psychological persuasion

1. Guilt Tripping: Guilt tripping is a form of psychological manipulation in which someone attempts to make another person feel guilty for their actions or lack thereof. This is done by making them feel responsible for something they may not have done or by making them feel like they are not doing enough.

2. Fearmongering: Fearmongering is a form of psychological manipulation in which someone attempts to create fear in order to influence the behavior of another person.

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Parental Alienation and Patterns of Cult Mind Control

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Parental Alienation is a form of undue influence in which one parent deceives and manipulates the child to feel fear, anger, disgust, or other negative emotions towards the other parent and their entire side of the family. Stories are told that might include: the parent doesn’t love them, beat, raped them, are drug addicts etc.. The alienating parent might even attempt to instill false memories of abuse or phobias in the child’s mind. They may encourage the child to spy and tattle on the other parent. In other words, parents who unethically alienate their child against the other parent use similar tactics that cults use to distance their members from family, friends, and ex-members.

According to developmental psychologist and expert witness Dr. Amy Baker, parental alienation strategies can fall into the following five categories:

  • poisonous messages to the child about the targeted parent in which he or she is portrayed as unloving, unsafe, and unavailable
  • limiting contact and communication between the child and the targeted parent
  • erasing and replacing the targeted parent in the heart and mind of the child
  • encouraging the child to betray the targeted parent’s trust
  • undermining the authority of the targeted parent

This systematic mind control programming of children against their non-custodial parent is absolutely dangerous.

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Definition of coercive control in the Serious Crime Act 2015

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Definition of coercive control in the Serious Crime Act 2015
Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015: ‘Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship’

An offence is committed by ‘A’ if:
• ‘A’ repeatedly or continuously engages in behaviour towards another person, ‘B’, that is controlling or coercive; and
• At time of the behaviour, ‘A’ and ‘B’ are personally connected; and
• The behaviour has a serious effect on ‘B’; and
• ‘A’ knows or ought to know that the behaviour will have a serious effect on ‘B’.

‘A’ and ‘B’ are ‘personally connected’ if:
• They are in an intimate personal relationship; or
• They live together and are either:
o members of the same family; or
o have previously been in an intimate personal relationship with each other.

There are two ways in which it can be proved that ‘A’s behaviour has a ‘serious effect’ on ‘B’:
• If it causes ‘B’ to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against them: s.76 (4)(a); or
• If it causes ‘B’ serious alarm or distress which has a substantial adverse effect on their day-to-day activities: s.76 (4) (b).

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Why are Coercive Psychological Systems Harmful?

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Coercive psychological systems violate our most fundamental concepts of basic human rights. They violate rights of individuals that are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and affirmed by many declarations of principle worldwide. 

By confusing, intimidating and silencing their victims, those who profit from these systems evade exposure and prosecution for actions recognized as harmful and which are illegal in most countries such as: fraud, false imprisonment, undue influence, involuntary servitude, intentional infliction of emotional distress, outrageous conduct and other tortuous acts. 

factnet.org/Margaret_Thaler_Singer/Margaret_Singer.html 
factnet.org – Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D 
F.A.C.T.net 

Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. Biography

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PSYCHOLOGICAL HARASSMENT INFORMATION ASSOCIATION 

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TACTIC 1 

Increase suggestibility and “soften up” the individual through specific hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as: Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills, Excessive exact repetition of routine activities, Sleep restriction and/or Nutritional restriction. 

TACTIC 2 

Establish control over the person’s social environment, time and sources of social support by a system of often-excessive rewards and punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered. 

TACTIC 3 

Prohibit disconfirming information and non supporting opinions in group communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled. An “in-group” language is usually constructed. 

TACTIC 4 

Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject’s basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her life’s history and adopt a new version of causality. 

TACTIC 5 

Create a sense of powerlessness by subjecting the person to intense and frequent actions and situations which undermine the person’s confidence in himself and his judgment. 

TACTIC 6 

Create strong aversive emotional arousals in the subject by use of nonphysical punishments such as intense humiliation, loss of privilege, social isolation, social status changes, intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques. 

TACTIC 7 

Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular psychological threats. For example, it may be suggested or implied that failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequences such as physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social failure, divorce, disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc. 

These tactics of psychological force are applied to such a severe degree that the individual’s capacity to make informed or free choices becomes inhibited. The victims become unable to make the normal, wise or balanced decisions which they most likely or normally would have made, had they not been unknowingly manipulated by these coordinated technical processes. The cumulative effect of these processes can be an even more effective form of undue influence than pain, torture, drugs or the use of physical force and physical and legal threats. 

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Drip Feeding a Child Lies

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The Narcissist Grandparent  drip–feeding poison into childrens ears.

When someone feeds us the truth about something one bit at a time, possibly because we keep catching them out, what they’re doing is drip-feeding information on a ‘need to know’ or more like, ‘I just got caught out’ basis. I’d say that they’re drip-feeding the truth, and in some instances that may be the case, but sometimes a person can end up drip-feeding more lies, and it ends up being like a lies version of the film Inception – a lie within another lie within another lie.

If you’re being drip-fed the truth, consider it a code red alert that something is seriously wrong and you most definitely shouldn’t proceed until you’re absolutely certain of the facts and the trust issue has been addressed and resolved. Obviously this can pose an issue because while people make mistakes and do lie (and regret it and seek to make amends), drip-feeding is just a continuation of a lie, only this time, you’re being led to believe that you’re both on a truth level when you’re not.  That person is unwilling to be upfront and is feeding you information on a need-to-know-basis and re-deceiving you time and again. It’s very difficult to feel comfortable in an atmosphere of lies and half-truths. It’s destabilising, especially when you keep taking each ‘installment’ at face value, only to discover that there’s more to come.

Drip-Feeding: When you get the truth (or lies) in installments