(Lifton) It is not only the individual's communication with the outside world (what he hears, sees, reads, writes etc.) that is controlled but also the inner communication, the communication he has with himself. ... They created conflicts in respects to "individual autonomy." ... Once the individual has experiences the black and white thinking it is very hard to regain a "more balanced inner sensitivity to the complexities of human morality." ... (Lifton) This confession is a means of maintaining a perpetual inner emptying or psychological purge of impurity. ...

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