Milieu control

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Milieu control is a neologism for the control of environment and human communication through the use of social pressure and group language that may include dogma, protocols, slang, and pronunciation, which enables group members to identify other members, or to promote cognitive changes in individuals.

Proponents of such methods claim that a group story unifies a subculture into a community.

Critics claim that this isolates vulnerable people from their society and family.

[edit] See also

• Shibboleth
• Identification friend or foe.
• religious conversion

[edit] External links

• Robert Jay Lifton's eight criteria of thought reform as applied to the Executive Success Programs
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• Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Technique
• Cognitive Impairment in Thought Reform Environments
• International Cultic Studies Association