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Summary: Documentation of Govt.-Sponsored Psychiatric Mind Control
Review: Colin Ross, M.D., a well-established psychiatrist and researcher in the field of dissociative disorders, has put together a collection of evidence showing how psychiatry has been hijacked by government military and mind control agendas. This book is primarily just a review of government programs and documents, providing irrefutable evidence of how psychiatric professionals worked with government sponsored programs to fragment people's minds, using a variety of techniques, such as drugs, torture, electronics and electroshock, hypnosis, food & sleep deprivation, and sensory deprivation. This information is not pleasant or entertaining to read unless one happens to be a sadist. However, it is useful for clinicians and patients to have an understanding of how dissociation has been deliberately created, providing insights into how the resulting conditions may be effectively healed. This book would also be of interest to historical researchers, especially those who seek to examine covert agendas and conspiratorial activity. Ross specifically states that this book is not about any conspiracy theory or critique of government agencies and their motives, while he does express his intent to expose psychiatric professionals involved in mind control for their breach of professional oaths and ethics. This aspect of the text is somewhat disappointing, as Ross defends the CIA and other government operations for their exploration of mind control to serve national "security" and "defense" interests. If psychiatrists are acting in a contemptible manner by abusing their clients and manipulating patients' minds against their will, then why should CIA or military personnel be excused for pursuing those agendas just because they don't have a professional guideline opposed to such activities? Only through coercion and deceit can the government carry out the mind control research and applications, which would mean that in order to supposedly "fight to protect American freedom and values" the government itself must flout those freedoms and values. I am under the impression that Colin Ross has become less forgiving of government motives and agendas subsequent to the publication of this book, but I encourage readers to consider this issue carefully when reading the comments in Bluebird about the motives and culpabilities related to mind control abuses. Otherwise, this was an excellent book, providing the information that the author set out to publicize in order to help expose psychiatric abuses and aid those seeking to heal MPD & DID.
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Summary: Frightening and Informative!
Review: From Project Paperclip and The Tuskegee Syphillis Study, to real life Manchurian Candidates, this book is a wealth of information. Just as interesting are the copies of actual government papers(in the back of this book) on the experiments done. I only wish that there could have been follow-up information on those poor children who were put through those horrible LSD/mind-control experiments. I wonder, what were the long-term effects of those experiments on those children? This book is a MUST READ!
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange ...
Review: Government efforts to control alleged "terrorists" with the use of psychological "techniques" constitute a threat to the civil liberties of all and a common form of torture -- whenever and wherever it occurs.
Nothing that can be alleged about a victim of such torture excuses its criminality.
These activities are excused or rationalized by participants on the ground that "it is for the victims' own good" -- but to define what is for the good of another is never for that other's own good nor can it ever be anything less than a heinous violation of that other's full autonomy. Defenses based on "all that might be learned" from such efforts are equally unsatisfactory.
A human being is a locus of rights of a deontological, inalienable and inviolable sort. This is true even of Charles Manson, let alone any other normally flawed person. To believe otherwise, is to become like Manson. Any "therapist" who lends him- or herself to the reduction of a fellow human being to an object, a mere thing, an instrument of purposes not that human being's own, has betrayed all therapeutic ethics.
Any "therapist" willing to serve as a torturer for any reason, has abandoned his or her ethics.
Thomas Szasz writes: "... only when people withdraw their faith in mental health and mental illness will they see fit to curb the powers of psychiatry, just as only when they withdrew their blind faith in God and the Devil did they see fit to curb the powers of [priests]."
Join in the international struggle to end torture.
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Summary: Is Dr. Ross part of a sophisticated containment system?
Review: Land of the free, and home of the brave? After this last election, do you still think we live in a Democracy where government is run with the consent of the governed? Read this book and you will see just how far back Amerikan fascism's roots are seeded. As touched on in my review of the book Acid Dreams, Colin Ross goes deeper and into the legitimate documentation of experiments by doctors, via Paperclip and other organizational efforts, to create mind controlled Manchurian candidates in this country. Just taking a cursory walk through history in the past 30 years will show you how much things have changed. We wonder why. Just the way things are? Overpopulation? Why is it that we have mass murderers in the high schools in our midst? Ross does not allude to these incidences, but he does take a good hard look at Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan and Mark David Chapman utilizing FOIA documentation that certainly makes *me* take a good look at the ongoing insanity in our current day. These things did and do continue to happen. Riveting is the history of Linda MacDonald, a "patient" of Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allain Memorial Institute in Canada, whose mind was entirely wiped out by LSD and electroshock and then re-wired with taped loops run under her pillow over and over and over as she "slept." She emerged an emotional "infant," who had to invent all over again who she was. This was his "treatment" for what we know today as post-partum depression. You can learn more about this case in the Mind Control video available through the History channel. Ewen Cameron, by the way, was the psychiatrist that "counseled" the Nazi prisoners at the Nuremburg trials. His work was not limited to Canada, either. How nice for him, that he was able to make his "career" on the backs of unwitting human guinea pigs!Ross has an entire diagram of the MK-ULTRA projects and sub-projects, where they were, who ran them and where the funding came from. What an eye opener that is! There are buildings in my town named after Estabrooks and Hoaglund, "doctors" who were instrumental in the mind control projects pointed out by Dr. Ross. I become more cynical, and less naive, every day.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange ...
Review: State and federal government efforts to control dissidents of one sort or another, often persons posing no danger to others but who are simply "different," constitute a well-recognized threat to the civil liberties of all and a common form of secret torture in the United States. Nothing that can be alleged about a victim of such torture excuses its criminality. These evil activities are excused or rationalized by participants on the ground that "it is for the victims' own good" -- but to define what is for the good of another is never for that other's own good nor can it ever be anything less than a heinous violation of that other's full autonomy. Defenses based on "all that might be learned" from such "experiments" (which was Dr. Mengele's excuse), are equally unsatisfactory. A human being is a locus of rights of a deontological, inalienable and inviolable sort. This is true even of Charles Manson, let alone any other normally flawed person. To believe otherwise, is to become like Manson. Any "therapist" who lends him- or herself to the reduction of a fellow human being to an object, a mere thing, to an instrument of purposes not that human being's own, has betrayed all therapeutic ethics. Any "therapist" concerned to serve as a lackey for dull-witted government functionaries, has abdicated his or her responsibilities for a government paycheck. Thomas Szasz writes: "... only when people withdraw their faith in mental health and mental illness will they see fit to curb the powers of psychiatry, just as only when they withdrew their blind faith in God and the Devil did they see fit to curb the powers of priestcraft." Join in the international struggle to end psychiatric torture.
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Summary: Great information but difficult to read
Review: This book is probably the most factually supported publication I have read. Nearly every paragraph is footnoted or referenced at least once. Dr. Ross is extra careful to only state that which he has found through Freedom of Information Act searches. BUT, this is what makes this title hard to follow. Dr. Ross firmly establishes the U. S. Government's participation is mind control experimentation a la "Manchurian Candidate" art. If you need to convince yourself that the U. S. Government would sponsor unethical medical research, then this book is a MUST. If you want to read a light summary of unethical activities of the government, THIS IS NOT the resource.
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Summary: Great information but difficult to read
Review: This book is probably the most factually supported publication I have read. Nearly every paragraph is footnoted or referenced at least once. Dr. Ross is extra careful to only state that which he has found through Freedom of Information Act searches. BUT, this is what makes this title hard to follow. Dr. Ross firmly establishes the U. S. Government's participation is mind control experimentation a la "Manchurian Candidate" art. If you need to convince yourself that the U. S. Government would sponsor unethical medical research, then this book is a MUST. If you want to read a light summary of unethical activities of the government, THIS IS NOT the resource.
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