by Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:45 pm
LilyPat, I found the best summary of this in a 1999 book by Douglas Rushkoff called 'Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say.'<br><br>Rushkoff actually compares the 'hand-to-hand' sales techniques deployed by corporations to the CIA's Kubark interrogation manual.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.parascope.com/articles/0397/kubark06.htm">www.parascope.com/article...bark06.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>(Ya gotta love techniques like 'Mortimer Snerd vs Spinoza.')<br><br>He also describes how the CIA picked up some of their emotional savvy from Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie.<br><br>I discovered (Alfred) Biderman's Chart of Coercion from the Korean war investigations into mind control back when Abu Ghraib broke into public view.<br><br>I noticed that the eight control techniques used to break the human will were used by first parents and then schools and governments to socialize children into acceptable behavior patterns.<br><br>Check this out and see if you can figure out how these things are institutionalized to infantalize the entire US population as adults-<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Isolation</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Deprives victim of all social support of his ability to resist<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Induced debility, Exhaustion</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Weakens mental and physical ability to resist<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Monopolization of perception</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Eliminates stimuli competing with those controlled by captor; Frustrates all actions not consistent with compliance<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Threats</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Cultivates anxiety and despair<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Occasional indulgences</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Provides positive motivation for compliance; Hinders adjustment to deprivation<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>Demonstrating ‘omnipotence’ </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->- Suggests futility of resistance<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Degradation</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Makes cost of resistance appear more damaging to self esteem than capitulation; Reduces prisoner to ‘animal level’ concerns<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Enforcing trivial demands</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - Develops a habit of compliance<br><br>Six of the eight coercive techniques that Biderman documented directly parallel the statements used by the National Domestic Violence Hotline website for emotional--non-physical--abuse. Both of the other two--Induced debility, Exhaustion and Occasional indulgences--are also integral parts of psychological abuse <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.psychabuse.info/page2.html#Biderman">www.psychabuse.info/page2.html#Biderman</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Psychological Abuse and Biderman’s Methods of Coercion<br><br>In 1973, Amnesty International compiled all their past research to produce a Report on Torture. A researcher named Biderman spearheaded the effort to discover how the Chinese were able to brainwash Allied prisoners of war without the use of 'excessive force'. His theory on the psychological aspects of torture is applicable to domestic violence situations. <br>....<br>Biderman described the manipulative techniques employed by the Chinese interrogators in terms of Dependency, Debility and Dread (DDD). He concludes, "The combination of these three factors, carefully contrived and nurtured, prepares a resistant prisoner for complete compliance."9<br><br>If the proper application of DDD can make a trained soldier unable to resist the demands of his enemy, how effective it must be against an untrained civilian--especially when wielded by someone who claims to love her.<br><br>Furthermore, the methods used by the captors to control prisoners of war are so similar to the psychological abuse leveled against victims of domestic violence10 that Biderman’s Chart of Coercion has been used to help educate women in battered women’s shelters.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nwrain.net/~refocus/coerchrt.html">www.nwrain.net/~refocus/coerchrt.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"Most people who brainwash...use methods similar to those of prison guards who recognize that physical control is never easily accomplished without the cooperation of the prisoner. The most effective way to gain that cooperation is through subversive manipulation of the mind and feelings of the victim, who then becomes a psychological, as well as a physical, prisoner."<br>from an Amnesty International publication, "Report on Torture", which depicts the brainwashing of prisoners of war.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>