بهره گيري از فنون عمليات رواني در مهار بحران

Benefiting the Mental Operation Techniques in Controlling the Crisis

Crisis is the change of societal situation, usually in a negative way. In that situation, the activity of different powers and competitors increases widely in an organized form and with the aim of subversion and with the use of all their capacities including the use of firearms and weapons other than firearms and taking help from the supportive and backup agents. During the crisis usually a group of society is disagreed with and critical about economical, cultural, societal, political and... issues. And because of the excitement and stimulations resulting from the propaganda, they commit collective behaviors and clearly abuse the norms of the society. Although the time of such crisis is often short, but the scope of their mental and political effects are so severe. Meanwhile, policeʹs on time and successful exploitation from the techniques of mental operation, cause the control and finally, the halt of such crises. For this reason, during the recent years the police have started to use psychic ways instead of solid physical approaches to combat such crises. We are going to while clarifying the notion of mental operation and its history, familiarize the readers with the principles and techniques of mental operation, introduce the weak points and strong points of mental operation and then acquaintance with the methods and techniques of the mental operation used in crisis by the opposers and also the techniques of the mental operation used by the organs of the system against the crisis makers. And finally, while concluding the mentioned arguments, we will present our applicable suggestions. Key words Mental Operation/ Collective Actions/ Crisis/ Propaganda/ Rumor