personality no longer takes part in the automatic confessions. The brainwashee lives in a trance, repeating the record grooved into him by somebody else." Like their totalitarian counterparts, democratic societies are subject to the insidious influences of mind control. Such influences surround the citizens of free societies, "both on a political and a nonpolitical level and they become as dangerous to the free way of life as are the aggressive totalitarian governments themselves." People must guard against the creeping intrusion into their minds by technology, bureaucracy, prejudice, and mass delusion. Meerloo writes that freedom and democracy depend in part on education for mental freedom—helping children and adults to think for themselves and to see the essentials of a problem—helping them to understand concepts, not merely to memorize facts. Throughout most of the book, Meerloo's targets are the historic roles of the Nazis and of the Communists in the post-1945 world. However, he also attacks the witch-hunting of individuals through the House Un-American Activities Committee: "the Congressional right to investigate can be abused and misused. The power to investigate may become the power to destroy -- not only the man under attack, but also the mental integrity of those who, in one way or another, are witnesses to the investigation. In a subtle way, the current wave of Congressional investigations may have a coercive effect on our citizenry." (117) Bibliography Total War and the Human Mind: A Psychologist's Experience in Occupied Holland (1944, Published for The Netherlands Government Information Bureau by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.) Delusion and Mass-Delusion (1949, NMD Monographs) Patterns of Panic (1950, International Universities Press, Inc.) 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)(Reprinted 2009, Progressive Press, ) Dance Craze and Sacred Dance, 1960 The dance, from ritual to rock and roll--ballet to ballroom, 1960, Philadelphia, Chilton Co., Book Division 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) "Creativity and Eternization: Essays on the Creative Instinct" (1967, Koninklijke Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V.; Assen, The Netherlands) Along the Fourth Dimension: Man's Sense of Time and History (1970, The John Day Company) Unobtrusive Communication. Essays in Psycholinguistics