How long does it take to read The Rape of the Mind; the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing?
Joost Meerloo
The Rape of the Mind; the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost Meerloo takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is about thought control in general and about brainwashing or menticide in particular. Its somewhat alarming title attests to the author's journalistic talent but seems to reflect also his deep concern about the sinister subject of this work. During World War II, while he was still in Holland, the author saw some of the effects and learned about the methods of this new weapon of totalitarianism. A number of his countrymen who were members of the underground movement had been subjected to the methodical use of torture and mental coercion by the Nazis and came to him for psychiatric treatment. Finally, he too was exposed to the subtle brutality of this systematic "destruction of man's mind."
Subjects: Brainwashing, Psychological Warfare, Persuasive Communication, thought control, torture, mental coercion
