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for his "future man." To achieve, as he puts it, "the treatment for schizophrenia and depression. Like control of domestic and international violence in the lobotomy, it almost disappeared as a mode of treatment political sphere"[15], Delgado is well endowed by the in the U.S., replaced by the anti-depressant drugs in the U.S. Public Health Service, the Office of Naval mid-1950's, only to return again some ten years later in Pop-arch, and the U.S. Air Force. the mid-1960's to be used concurrently with other modes Nor is Delgado alone in his campaign to physically of "therapy." control the mind. One colleague, Dr. Robert G. Heath, The treatment consists of sending an electric current Chairman and Professor of the Department of Psychiatry through the front part of the patient's head, resulting in and Neurology at Tulane University in New Orleans, unconsciousness and convulsions. boasts of holding the record for implanting 125 elec- The patient often awakes terrified, with wrenched trodes at one time in one brain. His specialities are muscles, broken bones, or damaged brain tissue. ECT's primarily homosexuals and frigid women.[16] most universal effect is loss of memory and a ESB is not only the technology of fascism; it also disorientation in time and space. It is these effects which reflects its epistomological basis. To advocates of ESB, have made ECT an important technique to employ in the brain is simply a "material entity located inside the functional brainwashing. skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed and - In Detroit, ECT is being used to "erase" undesirable measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and elements of an individual's personality so that the person humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is can be"reprogrammed" to function in a more desirable characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which manner. The director of Detroit's brainwashing center, may be examined directly when they are properly the Institute of Psychosynthesis, is Dr. Tien, a graduate magnified."[17] of the University of Michigan Medical School. Tien is Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy: Electroconvulsive quite articulate about the basic principles of brainshock therapy (ECT) was the first coercive psychiatric washing: "It is not the shock that's important, it's like technique applied on a massive scale. Closer to pure erasing a blackboard. You're not interested in the torture than the other techniques, its use was pioneered erasure itself, you're interested in what you can do after by the Kaiser's Army during World War I -- employed you erase."[18] as a disciplinary procedure for terrifying and torturing Dr. Tien recommends ECT for any and every kind of combat fatigue cases back into the trenches. (Chemical psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, sexual shocking agents were used even earlier- perhaps as disorders, alcoholism and even obesity. He also early as the eighteenth century.) From the late 1930's recommends shock treatment for "normal" individuals through the mid-1950's, ECT was the dominant who want to function at a higher level. In all cases, he 37 t "It's not the shock that' s important, it's like erasing a blackboard."
38 uses ECT as a conditioning technique for inducing a (Susan begins to drink from the bottle. Like all of pseudo-identity, a new persona. Tien's patients, she has not eaten for five to six hours Tien premises his brainwashing on the idea that ECT prior to shock therapy.) TIEN: Have you ever been'_ bad girl, Susan? temporarily reduces an individual to the mental state of a SUSAN: Yeah. Sure. baby, erasing neurotic ideas and memories that can be TOM: No. Susan has never been'bad. replaced with "healthy" ones. He deliberately stimulates TIEN: Right, Tom. It's Laura who was bad, not Susan. unpleasant memories immediately prior to the shock TOM: No. Susan has never been'bad. TIEN: Right, Tom. It's Laura who was bad, not Susan. treatment, so that they can be "erased." Then with baby TOM: Susan's a good girl. bottles, chocolate milk (adults prefer it to white milk, he TIEN: Tell me, Susan, did your grandmother ever make finds) and cuddling by spouse or parent, he makes the you get in a doghouse? individual receptive to "new ideas." SUSAN: W-h-a? TOM: No. Susan's grandmother never did that. Laura's One of Tien's videotaped case histories, for example, grandmother did it. documents the transfoimation of a woman called TIEN: You're a new person now. Have you ever l_een'in "Laura," who saved her marriage by becoming a an orphanage? "Susan." The full transformation required 20 shock SUSAN: No, never. It is not the ECT itself that brainwashes. Laura did treatments, administered over a period of several months. A videotape film, one of hundreds m Tien's not acquire the persona of "Susan" because of shock library, recorded one of those sessions: therapy per se. In fact, while Tien sees ECT as desirable for "psychosynthesis, " he does not insist that it is (Laura is on a treatment table in St. Lawrence Hospital, attended by Tien and a nurse who places the mandatory. The new persona is acquired by submitting electrodes that connect Laura to the shock treatment to acts of self-degradation, -- regression to infancy; machine.) becoming a work slave; eating one's excrement, etc. m in the face of pain _ i.e. to halt the pain, as B.F. TIEN: Laura, I want you to think about yourself as Laura (when you were a child). What got you so upset that you Skinner puts it in his explanation of why "'aversive had to run away from home? conditioning" works better than mere punishment or LAURA: My grandmother. I had to live with her. She threats. used to beat me and she put me in'an orphanage. The painful stimuli could be physical n ECT, TIEN: Before that, what did she do? Remember what you told me intherapy? She made y_u sit in the doghouse in' beatings, starvation, etc., or emotional -- playing upon the yard and finally made you take the dog you loved l_o fears or neuroses. This is demonstrated in a simpler form the dog pound to be destroyed. 'What's upsetting you, by a couple of Vietnamese case studies published ' Laura? LAURA: Nothing I can't remember, recently in Science News: TIEN:No? You mean the bad times were so bad you got Firstly: Chronic male patients (mostly schizophrenic) all mixed up? So now you want your husband to divorce were offered freedom if they proved they Could work. Of you and take your son away? 130, only 10 volunteered to work. The rest were told they LAURA: NoI You're mixing me up. I never wanted that. needed 'treatment ' and were ' given 'electroconvulsive I want the divorce and I want my son with me. shock. After a few treatments, most of the men decided TIEN: Yes, it is all mixed up, isn't it? Do you remember to work.(20) running away? Just like your father ran away? Just like your mother ran away, leaving you with your grand- Secondly: A similar experiment 'was then tried on 130 mother? Remember running away from the orphanage? women. Even after each had received 20 treatments, Remember running away from the foster home? IS it all only 15 were 'willing to work. Shock treatments were coming back? You are so desperal_e sometimes, and you discontinued and food was withheld for periods of up to feel so depressed, Laura. You can't put up with this any three days. The patients were eventually cured and went more. And now you want to run away from Tom to work tending crops for the Green Berets.(21) (husband). The point is clear: the mental patients were coerced and (ADr. rubber Tienmouth administers guard is'the inserte'd electricin shock. Laura'sLaura mouth, is into acquiring a slave's persona in order to escape the wheeled into an adjoining treatment room, where Tom is pain. waiting. The nurse hands Tom a baby bottle filled _vith Chemotherapy: Drugs are the "humanitarian's" chocolate TIEN: Susan, milk.) your husband is here. psychosurgery. They are ESB and ECT all wrapped in " (Laura/Susan opens'her eyes and looks submissively one package. Drugs do the same thing n reduce or at Tom, who cuddles h'er in his arms and attempts to feed abort mental functioning -- and they are cheaper, more her from the baby bottle.) efficient, and better geared to turning people into TOM: SUSAN Come (childishly):I on Susan, don' drink wan' your it. milk. "functioning slaves" rather than incapacitated TOM: It's good for you. You're a good girl, aren'_ you? vegetables.
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