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12-05-02 03:28 PM  
Robey A HISTORY OF THIS BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION LABORATORY

1.Physical removal from areas sufficiently isolated to effectively break or seriously weaken close emotional ties.
2.Segregation of all natural leaders.
3.Use of cooperative members as leaders.
4.Prohibition of group activities not in line with brainwashing objectives.
5.Spying on members and reporting back private material.
6.Tricking members into written statements which are then showed to others.
7.Exploitation of opportunists and informers.
8.Convincing members that they can trust no one.
9.Treating those who are willing to collaborate in far more lenient ways than those who are not.
10.Punishing those who show uncooperative attitudes.
11.Systematic withholding of information.
12.Preventing contact with anyone non-sympathetic to the method of treatment and regimen of the captive populace.
13.Disorganization of all group standards among members.
14.Building a group conviction among the members that they have been abandoned by and totally isolated from their social order.
15.Undermining of all emotional supports.
16.Preventing members from writing to friends in the community regarding the conditions of their ouster .
17.Making available and permitting access to only those publications and books that contain materials which are neutral to or supportive of the desired new attitudes.
18.Placing individuals into new and ambiguous situations for which the standards are kept deliberately unclear and then putting pressure on him to conform to what is desired in order to win favor and a reprieve from the pressure.
19.Using techniques of character invalidation, i.e., humiliations, revilement, shouting, to induce feelings of guilt, fear, and suggestibility.
20.Meeting all insincere attempts to comply with other members pressures with renewed hostility.
21.Renewed pointing out to the members by other members or staff where he has in the past, or is in the present, not been living up to his own standards or values.
22.Rewarding of submission and subserviency to the attitudes encompassing the brainwashing objective with a lifting of pressure and acceptance as a human being.
23.Providing social and emotional supports which reinforce the new attitudes .

Note: Sound familiar?
12-05-02 09:40 PM  
Lunarlady Hmmm.....

I just had an idea.

Thanks Robey! :D
12-05-02 09:43 PM  
Robey
quote:
Lunarlady wrote:
Hmmm.....I just had an idea. Thanks Robey! :D



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12-05-02 09:48 PM  
Lunarlady You should be seeing it right....about.....now.....