PSINKTOBER_DAY12
Prompt: Remote
In 1951, the OSI attempted to use hypnosis and psychoactive drugs in a limited study to force subjects to perform violent acts against their will.
In 1953, the CIA began hundreds of experiments with little oversight on military agents, civilians, and non-citizens to try and figure out mind control. With the cooperation of prominent psychologists, they dosed victims with hallucinogens, tortured them physically and mentally, and disabled or killed many of them. The experiments ended 20 years later.
“You start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic person […] they are not people in the psychological sense” - O. Ivar Lovaas
“[From] a vegetable state, [patients] would recover to a more healthy state of mind” - Donald Ewen Cameron