1999 — Eric Weisbard, "Generation Ex", Village Voice, 13 July 1999:
I hear it in the music of those over-21s at that world's "angry" forefront, the rap-rockers who grew up after Nirvana and Dr. Dre and have never faced the mindscrew of seeing the true sounds of their youth automatically ghettoized.
I have a feeling this latest news I was going to give him would be the ultimate mindscrew.
2006 — Justina Robson, Living Next Door to the God of Love, Bantam Books (2006), →ISBN, page 32:
"Because I have to or they'll make me go through that bloody praying and chanting boot camp everything-is-solved-with-love mindscrew again," I hissed at him.
It's in television that Abrams, arguably more than Spielberg, has nudged the medium forward, with "Felicity," then "Alias" and finally the mindscrew of "Lost."
2011 — Christine Cody, In Blood We Trust, Ace Books (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
She'd probably realized that she was a candidate for a mindscrew now that she was privy to the vampires' plans.
Verb: "to destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind"edit
1997 — Howard Swindle, Trespasses: Portraits of a Serial Rapist, Penguin (1997), →ISBN:
About half the detectives thought his return to the old neighborhood was proof positive that he was out of control; still others believed he had ice water running through his veins, maybe even mindscrewing the cops by rubbing their noses in the fact they couldn't stop him even though they suspected who he was
