4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American evolutionary psychologist and researcher whose work on political psychology, moral signaling, and the evolutionary functions of ideology has contributed to the understanding of why people hold political beliefs.
Austrian psychiatrist who was a pioneering figure in character analysis and body-oriented psychotherapy before becoming increasingly eccentric and developing the pseudoscientific orgone energy theory.
American psychiatrist who studied Chinese thought reform programs and Nazi doctors — developing the concept of 'thought reform' (brainwashing) and identifying the eight criteria of totalist environments in cults and totalitarian regimes.
Robert Jay Lifton's 1961 study of Chinese Communist thought reform programs — developing the eight criteria of totalist environments that became the standard framework for understanding cults and totalitarian indoctrination.