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.
| 1951 J. 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. 1973 Black 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. |