According to an American diplomatic cable exposed by WikiLeaks, during Kasab's trial a US diplomat had asked Kazmi to build a case based on a brainwashing plea.
Margaret Singer, who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prisoners of war, agreed with this conclusion: in her book Cults in Our Midst she describes six conditions which would create an atmosphere in which thought reform is possible.
David G. Bromley and Anson Shupe, writing in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (1998), have credited Anthony and his co-author, sociologist Thomas Robbins, with having written "the most articulate critique" of the anti-cult movement's perspective on brainwashing.
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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.
Inspired by John Mark's 1979 book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Streatfeild investigated the reality of brainwashing.
In 2010, he introduced a television show called Hjernevask ("Brainwashing") which contrasted cultural determinist models of human behavior (also referred to as the Standard social science model) with nature-nurture interactionist perspectives.
In a different case in 2006, Hochman examined Heather Tallchief, an armored car thief, and determined that she had been subjected to undue influence from Roberto Solis, after Tallchief claimed she had been brainwashed.
In the late 1970s he wrote Youth, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults, where he explored the dynamics of conversion and member participation through some case studies of various controversial minority religious groups such as: Hare Krishna (ISKCON), Children of God, Alamo Christian Foundation, the Love Family, the Unification Church, the Way International, and the Divine Light Mission.
Due to the brainwashing, Rusty had no qualms about attacking former teammate Cannonball during the X-Cutioner's Song storyline.
The task force published a number of reports, some in English, including "Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force" by Prof. Stephen A. Kent.