Brainwashing

<p>Although many of the ideas associated with brainwashing came to prominence with the Stalinist Show Trials in the 1930s, it was during the Korean War that the term became known in the West. The term ‘wash brain’ (xi nao) originated in China, meaning to cure someone of anti-Communist ‘false consciousness’ with the techniques of ‘re-education’, but drew on the concept of ‘thought reform’ that was based on an older tradition of meditation.^{<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338126/#FN49" rid="FN49" class=" fn">4</a>}</p>