Joost Meerloo

Dr. Joost Meerloo (1903-1976) was a renaissance man of outstanding accomplishments. Author of 43 books and monographs and over 1,000 essays, he won worldwide renown as an authority on psychological warfare, especially on the techniques of brainwashing explored in his representative work, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (1956). Dr. Meerloo coined the term "menticide." From the early Thirties, his wide ranging interests blazed a trail in writings on the psychology of drug addiction, correlatives between cancer and emotional illness, the phenomenology of time, problems of death and aging, art and dance symbolism, interpersonal communication, parapsychology and a host of other topics.