It is the implementation and enforcement techniques, to modify or not, the personality of the individual;
on aspects
of conduct, beliefs and thoughts for political purposes, religious or rehabilitation or any other.
Historically there has been in control of thinking individuals imposed by totalitarian societies of the twentieth century by scholars of scientific knowledge of these techniques.
There are alternating in various forms and auxiliary that have been used throughout the centuries, in the washing of the brain, such as:
1. Removal of food for some time: to cause hunger and deprivation of protein, hence the confusioón credulity and is present in the treatment, and these statements are important for the achievement of brain washing. .
2 sleep deprivation, which causes stress and confusion.
It is believed that with these procedures in thirty days is achieved the goal of brain washing, and if an individual''s will is positive towards this treatment for a long time, the results are long-term or indefinite, without turning back. From irreversibly, the mentality and behaviour of individuals is modified on an ongoing basis.
Despite the intensity of technical applications of brain washing, deprogrammed is an option, if that is required reversal of treatment. This process, which frees the person of the mind control that has been subjected, involves the same evidence that was used in programming and includes the following events:
1. Removal from group controller.
2. Leisure physical.
3. Food adequate.
4. Perseverance.
At present the techniques of brain washing is used as a method of healing in psychiatry through the use of drugs, which suppress the patient''s cognitive abilities.
In the masses applies brainwashing method with the suggestion through the media. Its application goes to the conscious and subconscious of the world''s population for the area .. It is used for purposes; political, social, educational, economic and cultural.