'''Mind control''' (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, [[thought]] ''control'', or thought reform) refers to a [[process]] in which a [[group]] or [[individual]] "systematically uses unethically [[manipulative]] [[methods]] to [[persuade]] others to [[conform]] to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the [[person]] being manipulated". The term has been applied to any tactic, [[psychological]] or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an [[individual]]'s sense of [[control]] over their own [[thinking]], [[behavior]], [[emotions]] or [[decision]] making. | '''Mind control''' (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, [[thought]] ''control'', or thought reform) refers to a [[process]] in which a [[group]] or [[individual]] "systematically uses unethically [[manipulative]] [[methods]] to [[persuade]] others to [[conform]] to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the [[person]] being manipulated". The term has been applied to any tactic, [[psychological]] or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an [[individual]]'s sense of [[control]] over their own [[thinking]], [[behavior]], [[emotions]] or [[decision]] making. |