Joost Meerloo

Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo (March 14, 1903 – November 17, 1976) was a Dutch Doctor of Medicine and psychoanalyst.

Born in The Hague, Netherlands, he came to United States in 1946, was naturalized in 1950, and resumed Dutch citizenship in 1972.

He was the son of Bernard and Anna (Benjamins) Meerloo. He married Louisa Betty Duits (a physical therapist), May 7, 1948.

Education: University of Leiden, M.D., 1927; University of Utrecht, Ph.D., 1932.

Meerloo specialized in the area of thought control techniques used by totalitarian regimes.

Bibliography

* "Delusion and Mass-Delusion" (1949, NMD Monographs)
* "Conversation and Communication" (1952, International Universities Press, Inc.)
* "The Two Faces of Man" (1954, International Universities Press, Inc)
* "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing" (1956, World Publishing Company)
* "Guidance in an Age of Technology" (1961)
* "Suicide and Mass Suicide" (1962, Grune & Stratton, Inc.)
* "Hidden Communion" (1964, Garrett Publications/Helix Press)
* "A Psycho-Analytic Study of Culture and Character" (1965, John Wiley)

ources

* Biography Resource Center
* Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002

External links

* [http://quotes.zaadz.com/Joost_Meerloo Quotes by Joost Meerloo] . Zaadz.com.
* [http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/mc-ch1.html "Rape of the Mind"] (full online text of the 1956 World Publishing Company edition of "The Rape of the Mind")
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/mass-delusion-meerloo.htm "Delusion and Mass-Delusion"] (full online text of the 1949 NMD Monographs first printing, 1949 "Delusion and Mass-Delusion")