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A True Account of Brainwashing and the Greater Power of the Gospel
by Silvester Krcmery
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A True Account of Brainwashing and the Greater Power of the Gospel
by Silvester Krcmery
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This unique prison journal integrates a fascinating scientific biopsy of brainwashing with astonishing spiritual implications. In 1951 the communist government of Czechoslovakia sent a young medical doctor to prison for refusing to repudiate his faith. There he experienced solitary confinement, brainwashing and torture for seven years. Since he was trained in psychology, Dr. Krcmery was able to recognize the strategies used against him. Ultimately, what saved him from total physical and mental collapse was the Gospel of John which he had memorized before imprisonment and then turned to again and again. In a supreme act of generosity Silvester Krcmery has opted to recall the horrors of that time in order to give us this singular account of the scientic and spiritual basis of brainwashing.
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Brainwashing, Christian life, Spiritual life| Edition | Availability |
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Break Point: A True Account of Brainwashing and the Greater Power of the Gospel
December 1, 1998, Crossroad Publishing
Paperback
in English
0824517709 9780824517700
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Table of Contents
| Foreword: | Eagles Fly High | |
| Abbreviations | ||
| Book One | THIS SAVED US: HOW TO SURVIVE BRAINWASHING | |
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | The Mysterious History of My Records - The Sources of My Writings - The Pain of Remembering - The Surprise of the First Show Trials | |
| Part I | Kidnapping or Arrest in the Military Zone - Solitary Confinement and Baptism by Fear - Performances by the Interrogators - Surgery | |
| Part II | The First Stage of Brainwashing - Sleep Deprivation, Walking, Standing Like Statues - The Interrogation Mill - Shock When the Strongest Break - How Long Can I Hang on? | |
| Part III | Transfers in a "Submarine" - The Infamous Ruzyn - Convoy to Bratislava - Baptism by Physical Coercion | |
| Part IV | The Beginning of My Legal Imprisonment - The Miracle of the Smuggled Bible - Brainwashing Continues, Kosice State Security Police - Hallucinations, the Three Degrees of Pain, Stalin's Death | |
| Part V | Back to the Familiar Ruzyn, Spiritual Weightlessness - Sophisticated Torturers, Final Refusal to Answer Questions - Stool Pigeons and Informers - State Security Leadership in Bratislava is Supposedly Wiped Out - The Principle of Contradiction | |
| Part VI | Departure From Ruzyn and the Second Move to Bratislava - The Superior Military Court and Prison in Trencin - The Main Trial on the Feast of John the Baptist - My Final Defense | |
| Part VII | My Spiritual Life in Prison - Spiritual Exercises in Solitary Confinement - Comprehensive Analysis and Personal Meditation - Themes and Ideas for Meditation | |
| Part VIII | The Gulag: The World of the Condemned - Giant Cells Without Privacy - "God's Mills" - Romanies | |
| Part IX | Cellmates in Solitary Confinement, Traumatology - Complaints About the Prosecution - Systematic Disinformation - Rules and Regulations for Detainees | |
| Part X | The Appeal Trial, the Supreme Military Court - The Prisoner is Handcuffed, the Public is Excluded - My Unique Family Support - Prison Uncertainty, Fear, and Constant Good-Byes | |
| Selected Documents | ||
| Epilogue: | Thoughts on the Book | |
| Slovak Editorial Note | ||
| Bibliography | ||
| Notes | ||
| Book Two | IN PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS AFTER BRAINWASHING | |
| Part I | Mirov Prison | |
| Part II | Banska Bystrica Prison | |
| Part III | Bytiz Labor Camp | |
| Part IV | Jachymov District - Prokop Labor Camp near Horni Slavkov | |
| Part V | Jachymov District - The Central Camp | |
| Part VI | Jachymov District - Prokop Labor Camp (for the second time) |
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