RTFA: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/05/psychological-tortur.html
your jaw may drop when you read the chapter titles:
* The Physiological State of the Interrogation Subject as it Affects
Brain Function* The Effects of Reduced Environmental Stimulation on Human Behavior:
A Review* The Use of Drugs in Interrogation
* Physiological Responses as a Means of Evaluating Information
* The Potential Uses of Hypnosis in Interrogation
* The Experimental Investigation of Interpersonal Influence
* Countermanipulation through Malingering
These articles were written by the people who were paid by the US
government, mostly in the 1950s, to research brainwashing and
interrogation techniques by giving people drugs, placing them under
sensory deprivation, hypnotizing them, etc. etc. Many of these
experiments essentially involve torture and are likely to be widely
regarded as highly unethical. This is fundamental research, and if
there was any followup research done, it has not yet been published
for public consumption.
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