menticide

menticide
/men"teuh suyd'/, n.
the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas.
[1950-55; < L ment- (s. of mens) MIND + -I- + -CIDE]

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