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  • Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)
  • Conversion, Religion and Brainwashing PP/WWS/G
  • Police Confessions PP/WWS/G/7

Police Confessions

  • Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)
Date:
1959-1964
Reference:
PP/WWS/G/7
Part of:
Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)
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Collection contents

  • Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)PP/WWS
    • Conversion, Religion and BrainwashingPP/WWS/G
      • Police ConfessionsPP/WWS/G/7
        • The physiology of police confessions', paper given to the British Society of Criminology: ts draftPP/WWS/G/7/1
        • Review of A Man Must Choose: the Dilemma of a ChinesePP/WWS/G/7/2
        • 'The mechanism of police confessions', paper given to the British Academy of Forensic Sciences: ts draft and photographPP/WWS/G/7/3
        • Examination of the trial of Iain Hay Gordon by Hugh Pierce at the request of Tom Sargant, Secretary of JusticePP/WWS/G/7/4
        • 'Preliminary investigations of criminal offences': a report by JusticePP/WWS/G/7/5

About this work

Description

This subject was also dealt with in Battle for the Mind. WWS saw parallels between the techniques of extracting confessions and brainwashing.

Publication/Creation

1959-1964

Physical description

5 files

Contributors

  • Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)

Languages

  • English

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