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Descriptor English: Brainwashing
Descriptor Spanish: Lavado de Cerebro
Descriptor lavado de cerebro
Entry term(s) adoctrinamiento forzado
control mental
Scope note: Extenso conjunto de tácticas intensas y a menudo coercitivas destinadas a producir cambios profundos en actitudes, creencias y emociones. Los objetivos de tales tácticas suelen ser prisioneros de guerra y miembros de cultos religiosos. (Traducción libre del original: https://dictionary.apa.org/brainwashing).
Descriptor Portuguese: Lavagem Cerebral
Descriptor French: Lavage de cerveau
Entry term(s): Control, Mind
Forced Indoctrination
Forced Indoctrinations
Indoctrination, Forced
Indoctrinations, Forced
Mind Control
Mind Controls
Tree number(s): L01.143.762.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000096965
Scope note: A broad class of intense and often coercive tactics intended to produce profound changes in attitudes, beliefs, and emotions. Targets of such tactics have typically been prisoners of war and members of religious cults. (From https://dictionary.apa.org/brainwashing)
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
HI history
Public MeSH Note: 2024
History Note: 2024
Related: Coercion MeSH
DeCS ID: 60537
Unique ID: D000096965
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Date Established: 2024/01/01
Date of Entry: 2023/07/26
Revision Date: 2023/05/24
Brainwashing - Preferred
Concept UI M0016413
Scope note A broad class of intense and often coercive tactics intended to produce profound changes in attitudes, beliefs, and emotions. Targets of such tactics have typically been prisoners of war and members of religious cults. (From https://dictionary.apa.org/brainwashing)
Preferred term Brainwashing
Entry term(s) Control, Mind
Forced Indoctrination
Forced Indoctrinations
Indoctrination, Forced
Indoctrinations, Forced
Mind Control
Mind Controls



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