What are mind games and what is mind control

Apart from a John Lennon song, mind games is an expression often used by football managers and others to imply some sort of psychological manipulation of another person to gain some sort of advantage over them.This is normally fairly innocuous stuff at press conferences to try and rattle their opponents.
Mind control is really a much more creepy term and tends to be applied to any sort of situation or relationship where someone is trying to manipulate your thinking so it agrees with their own.
Whilst this has probably gone on throughout history, its only in the last few decades that it has really become recognized as an art form almost in terms of the psychology behind it and the various ways people can be manipulated without their knowing it. It is important to and worth making a distinction between healthy and unhealthy forms of mind control.Mind control when used in a healthy way tends to be about putting the individual more in control of their own life and internal resources, what psychologists refer to a s a locus of control. In works for the benefit of the individual, not against them.
This is often seen in hypnosis proper, not stage hypnosis, different forms of self help work such as visualization of certain forms of prayer. Unhealthy mind control, unsurprisingly, tends to be more around the opposite , where someone takes away the internal freedom and autonomy of an individual and makes them compliant or dependent on some one else.This is a really destructive way of behavior, and can be used in many different forms, ranging from a cultic type of control, through to manipulative advertising or age old techniques of bullying.
Mind games is a term that has come into public view a lot more recently , particularly because it is a term that has come to be used in many sporting competitions where managers and coaches are always being accused of playing mind game with the other side. It does not really matter if this is true or not, but it does raise the awareness in public minds that people will try and mess with somebody else's head in order to gain some sort of advantage over them. The question really is is that possible to do, or is the illusion that people can do that, part of the mind games mentality itself. Interesting question.