Mind control

Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German ) and by the nicknames acid and lucy, is a semisynthetic hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot, known for its powerful psychological effects and serotonergic activity. It was historically used in psychiatry and 1960s counterculture; it is currently legally restricted but receiving renewed scientific interest and increasing use.

supposed condition in which the hostage develops a psychological bond with the captor

military information operations aimed at promoting behaviour to assist military objectives

Brainwashing is the systematic effort to get someone to adopt a particular deception, loyalty, instruction, or doctrine, usually without being noticed. It is also a term that refers in general to psychological techniques that manipulate action or thought against a person's will, desire, or knowledge. It attempts to damage individual or group attitudes, frames of reference, beliefs, values or loyalties by demonstrating that current thinking patterns and attitudes are wrong and need change. It is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction

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example of Party logic presented in 1984

the act of deliberately removing or reducing stimuli

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Fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood

form of psychological treatment

technological devices that connect directly to a biological subject's brain

Concept in human perception of sound

Suggestibility is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others. One may fill in gaps in certain memories with false information given by another when recalling a scenario or moment. Suggestibility uses cues to distort recollection: when the subject has been persistently told something about a past event, his or her memory of the event conforms to the repeated message.

Widespread practice regarding mind manipulation by electronic means

Finnish ufologist, parapsychologist and author (1939–2015)

psychological interaction

American chemist (1910-1953)

Panel investigating intelligence activities within the U.S.

thumb|upright|The writer Jürgen Fuchs (writer)|Jürgen Fuchs was targeted with Zersetzung methods. He described them as an 'assault on the human soul'. He died of a rare form of leukemia which he believed was caused by the Stasi's use of weaponised X-ray devices on him. Zersetzung (, German for "decomposition" and "disruption") is a psychological warfare technique first used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of a

treatment approach using behavioral conditioning

former CIA project

American model, pin-up, writer and radio host (1925-1990)

method of psychological torture utilizing sensory deprivation

prison from the early communist period of Romania

U.S. Navy truth serum project

sub-project of Project MKULTRA

indirect control over an opponent's decisions

The word destabilisation (alternatively, destabilization) can be applied to a wide variety of contexts such as attempts to undermine political, military or economic power.

American writer