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menticide|ˈmɛntɪsaɪd|
[f. L. menti-, mens mind + -cide 2.]
A word coined by J. A. M. Meerloo to designate the undermining or destruction of a person's mind or will by ‘psychological intervention and judicial perversion’; also in extended use. Cf. brainwashing.
1951J. A. M. Meerloo in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry Feb. 595/1 Such an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion, in which a powerful tyrant synthetically injects his own thoughts and words into the minds and mouths of the victims he plans to destroy by mock trial, may well be called menticide. 1957― Mental Seduction & Menticide Pref., The modern words ‘brainwashing’, ‘thought-control’, and ‘menticide’ serve to provide some indication of the..methods by which man's integrity can be violated. 1973Black Panther 20 Oct. 17/1 No treatise on prisons in 1973 can possibly be complete and up-to-date without dealing with the scientifically modernized versions of these conditions and practices as they are manifested in the forms of menticide and genocide. |