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Mind control is a general term for a number of controversial theories proposing that an individual's thinking, behavior, emotions or decisions can, to a greater or lesser extent, be manipulated at will by outside sources.

According to sociologist James T. Richardson, some of the concepts of brainwashing have spread to other fields and are applied " with some success " in contexts unrelated to the earlier cult controversies, such as custody battles and child sexual abuse cases, " where one parent is accused of brainwashing the child to reject the other parent, and in child sex abuse cases where one parent is accused of brainwashing the child to make sex abuse accusations against the other parent ".