We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Brainwashing Is Real and It's Really Not Therapy, Part 1 of 2

Click here to access article by Marcus Chatfield from OpEd News. 

The author provides a very good, documented exposé of a topic that receives almost no coverage in mainstream media.  The government refers to these "therapeutic" programs for troubled adolescents only as "residential treatment programs". Others have referred to them as a practice of coercive persuasion and thought reform, or simply brainwashing. On rare occasions reports filter through to the media that teenagers have died in these programs. Despite this, no real study of their safety and effectiveness has been carried out. The programs have their origins in research conducted by the CIA. Need I say more?
Physical and psychological abuse is built into many of these programs by design.   According to several different experts on the subject, the exhaustion and pressure that is induced by sleep deprivation, hunger, fatigue and emotional manipulation, "unfreezes" the psychological framework.   Through this orchestrated crisis,   a new identity is instilled by manipulating the environment and the emotions of the subject to an extreme degree until the "changed" mind of the subject has undergone "re-freezing."
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