Dick Anthony
Dick Anthony (24 September 1939—24 July 2022) was a
Academic career
Anthony held a
Involvement in the brainwashing debate
Anthony has characterized brainwashing as "a pseudo-scientific myth", and spearheaded efforts which, from 1990 onward, led to the general rejection of brainwashing testimony as unscientific in United States courts.
Anthony was a key consultant for the government in the
Anthony contributed a 100-page chapter on the brainwashing hypothesis to the book Misunderstanding Cults, edited by sociologists Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, in which he criticized the "tactical ambiguity" of brainwashing theorists like Zablocki.[13] In Anthony's view, brainwashing proponents have, in their efforts to resurrect a discredited hypothesis, continually modified key assumptions underlying the concept in order to avoid any possibility of its empirical verification.[13] The chapter argues that "the term brainwashing has such sensationalist connotations that its use prejudices any scientific discussion of patterns of commitment in religious movements."[13]
Reception
Publications
Book chapters and articles
- "Brainwashing and Totalitarian Influence", in Encyclopedia of Mental Health, ed. Howard S. Friedman, Academic Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-12-226676-8, pp. 331–346 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Cults, Brainwashing and Counter-Subversion," Annals 446(1979):78–90 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Cults in the Late Twentieth Century", in Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. Studies of Traditions and Movements, eds. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1988) Vol II, ISBN 978-0-684-18861-4
- "Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups", Social Problems, Vol. 29, No. 3, February 1982 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Getting Straight with Meher Baba: A Study of Drug Rehabilitation, Mysticism, and Post-adolescent Role Conflict", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1972 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Law, Social Science and the 'Brainwashing' Exception to the First Amendment," Behavioral Sciences and the Law 10(1992):5–30 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Pseudoscience versus Minority Religions: An Evaluation of the Brainwashing Theories of Jean-Marie Abgrall", in Regulating Religion, ed. ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1, pp. 127–149 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Religious Movements and 'Brainwashing' Litigation" in In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, eds. Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, ISBN 0-88738-800-0 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Religious Totalism, Violence, and Exemplary Dualism," in Terrorism and Political Violence 7(1995):10–50 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Sects and Violence," in Armageddon at Waco, ed. S. A. Wright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995): 236–259 (with Thomas Robbins)
- "Tactical Ambiguity and Brainwashing Formulations: Science or Pseudo-Science?, in ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9, pp. 215–317
- "The 'Brainwashing' Metaphor as a Social Weapon: A New Conceptual Tool for the Therapeutic State", for a symposium on deprogramming held at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1977 (with Thomas Robbins and Jim MacCarthy)
- "The Limits of Symbolic Realism: Problems of Emphatic Field Observation in a Sectarian Context", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1973 (with Thomas Robbins and Thomas E. Curtis)
- "Theory and Research on Today's 'New Religions'", Sociology of Religion, Sociological Analysis 1978 39(2):95-122; )
- "Youth Culture Religious Movements: Evaluating the Integrative Hypothesis", 1975, Sociological Quarterly, Volume 16 Issue 1, Pages 48–64 (with Thomas Robbins and Thomas E. Curtis)
Books
- In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-0-88738-800-2 (with Thomas Robbins)
- Spiritual Choices: The Problems of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation, Paragon House, 1987, )
References
- ISBN 978-0-7658-0478-5
- ISBN 978-0-88738-800-2
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9
- ISBN 978-0-7146-4708-1
- ^ a b Sipchen, Bob (1988-11-17). "Ten Years After Jonestown, the Battle Intensifies Over the Influence of 'Alternative' Religions", Los Angeles Times
- ISBN 0-19-514986-6
- ^ a b Oldenburg, Don (2003-11-21). "Stressed to Kill: The Defense of Brainwashing; Sniper Suspect's Claim Triggers More Debate", The Washington Post.
- ISBN 978-0-415-96577-4
- ^ ISBN 978-0-275-94852-8
- ^ ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1; the APA later withdrew its endorsement for "procedural and not substantial reasons".
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-20050-9
- ^ ISBN 978-0-306-47887-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9
- ISBN 978-0-7619-8956-1. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
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