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#Free #Book #Day (For the Inquisitive)

Breaking the Mind

The Mechanics of Indoctrination, Brainwashing and Thought Control (302 Pages)

ia801300.us.archive.org/27/items/Battl…

By William Sargant
I came across that book while researching the use of intramuscular injections of camphor oil to provoke seizures in the mentally ill which seemed to have been popular in the 1930s and 1940s & earlier

Camphor-Induced Epilepsy – Remedy for Manic Psychosis

karger.com/Article/Pdf/10…
Laszlo´ Meduna’s Pilot Studies With Camphor
Inductions of Seizures -The First 11 Patients

sci-hub.ee/10.1097/yct.0b…
Meduna and the Origins of Convulsive Therapy

sci-hub.ee/10.1176/ajp.14…
Convulsion therapy was first introduced in the form of intramuscular injections of a 25% camphorated-oil solution.

This was often a painful and dangerous procedure which could cause embolisms

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
Lessons from an early account of convulsive therapy

"After 4 years of catatonic stupor, ZL received camphor-induced COT which resulted in full remission and discharge from the institution....but returned to die there in 1945"

researchgate.net/publication/53…
Convulsive-Irritative Therapy of the Psychoses

A survey of more than 3000 Cases

LASZLO VON MEDUNA (1939)

sci-hub.ee/10.1001/jama.1…
History of the emergence of seizure therapy

The case of L Zoltan

nact.se/wp-content/upl…
K G B Psychiatry, a Review (1978)

archive.ph/1kV4s
Interesting to see this statement about "epidemics" and "war" in Chapter 7 (Page 131 of book or Page 168 on @internetarchive viewer) of

Battle For The Mind by William Sargant

archive.org/details/Battle…

spotted by @Justagi51907081
The Clickable Tags Invite Rabbit Hole Trips..🐰🕳️

archive.org/details/Battle…
One Rabbit Hole for example leads to Scottish born Dr Ewen Cameron, greatly inspired by the British Psychiatrist, Dr. William Sargant's work.

He went on to develop CIA's MKULTRA "techniques"

William Sargant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S…

Ewen Cameron: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ew…
A short earlier thread on Dr. Ewen Cameron here:

8 Tweets

Warning!

This Rabbit Hole stretches for miles with many branches:

William Sargent
Ewen Cameron
Psychic Driving
Electric-shock treatment
"Convulsive" Therapy
Insulin-induced comas
Deep-sleep therapy
Depatterning
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
S. Milgram
MK ULTRA
LSD
Sidney Gottlieb
Conformity
Obedience
Persuasion
Inverse Totalitarianism
Nazi, British, Chinese, Soviet, & US
Brainwashing, Torture and Interrogation Techniques
I'm a great believer in learner autonomy, so feel free to explore whichever branches take your fancy.

I will provide useful links for each of the topics listed in this thread, starting with William Sargent in the next tweet in this thread.
Topic 1: Dr. William Sargant (1)

A good introduction

The Mind Bender Series: Dr. William Sargant

hive.blog/mindcontrol/@s…
Dr. William Sargant (2)

Worth a Listen (28 minutes)

William Sargant - Revealing the Mind Bender General

BBC Radio 4 programme on British psychiatrist William Sargant, notorious experimenter into mind control and physiological influence on the mind.

archive.org/details/Willia…
Dr. William Sargant (3)

The interviews in the recording are available as PDFs & html as part of a fascinating research project for:

"Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control"

book4you.org/book/6013711/d…

Interviews can be found here:

dominicstreatfeild.wordpress.com/tag/william-sa…

Note the Tags!
In one of the interviews with a rather cagey "MI6 Psychiatrist", we learn that Dr. Sargant used methamphetamine (methedrine) injections as a truth drug (after developing "patient" rapport), also discusses LSD, ECT, "Sleep Treatment", etc.

Note: 5 Pages

dominicstreatfeild.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/int…
If you look around you will find 2 interviews with Psychiatrists who knew Sargent, 3 with British Army Interrogators, 1 SAS, 1 RUC & 1 US Army Interrogator, 2 with nurses who worked with Sargent & the MI6 Psychiatrist plus a few more.

Most linked from:

dominicstreatfeild.wordpress.com/tag/brainwashi…
A former patient of Dr. Sargant:

"Sargant's methods were simple: electric-shock treatment, insulin-induced comas leading to continuous narcosis, or deep-sleep therapy, complete with tape recorded 'brainwashing' orders played at patients under pillows"

archive.is/gD7IU
Time for some deep sleep therapy....to be continued!
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