Mind Control" In The Myth of the Hyperactive Child, Peter Schrag explained the new methods that were being developed to control children in today's United States. From this work has emerged a far broader, far-reaching, and important book on the ways in which the old punitive methods of control are being replaced by infinitely more frightening 'therapeutic' ones, the ultimate expressions of which are the recently revealed CIA mind-control experiments. The result of several years of research, Mind Control shows us the vast array of these new method: psychotropic drugs; behavior modification; the whole panorama of electronic surveillance mechanisms; and the collection, processing, and use of personal information to institutionalize people outside the walls of institutions. We have 'progressed' from the tens of millions of prescriptions for tranquilizers, which are simply used to control individuals, to the far more adventurous use of electroshock, psychosurgery, brain implants, and other methods designed to keep people from doing what it has been decided they ought not to do. Schrag show us methods of interventions creating a new ideology of control in which society becomes like a closed institution, where more and more people are drugged, screened, questioned, and followed as if they were inmates. Ultimately, the book asks what kind of America will emerge when individuals are no longer held responsible from their own behavior. Schrag draws the frightening picture of a country drugged into behaving, subject to endless manipulation, ignoring the guarantees of freedom."- Publisher. |
Contents
Wexler Paper presented to Symposium on Behavior Control Reed College | 11 |
FIVE The Chemistry of Liberation | 106 |
and Child Abuse Rate Called Epidemic The New York Times 30 Novembe | 148 |
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Mind Control: Mind Control: Unleash Your Inner Potential and Design Your ... Peter Schrag Limited preview - 1978 |
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