Episode 175: Dollop: The Torture Psychologists
Dave: Jim said he searched his soul–
Gareth: Ugh, did he have a warrant?
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Kubark Manual of Interrogation, U. S. Army and CIA Interrogation Manuals: Just a little light reading in the bathroom
More about Kubark:
PRISONER ABUSE: PATTERNS FROM THE PAST
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122
Cold War U.S. Interrogation Manuals Counseled “Coercive Techniques”
Cheney Informed of “Objectionable” Interrogation Guides in 1992
“Inconsistent with U.S. Government Policy”
National Security Archive Posts CIA Training Manuals from 60s, 80s, and
Investigative memos on earlier controversy on human rights abusesFor Further Information:
Thomas Blanton 202 994-7000
Peter Kornbluh 202 994-7116** Updated to include a version of the KUBARK manual declassified as of February 25, 2014 **
Hague and Geneva Conventions by the United States, Navy Department
Geneva Convention POW Handbook by James “Doc” Crabtree
Jonathan H. Kantor
“Strawberry Fields” at Guantanamo Bay
Vanity Fair: Guantánamo: An Oral History, January, 2012; From Gitmo to an American Supermax, The Horrors of Solitary Confinement, January, 2015
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China by Robert Jay Lifton (the expert, if you pick one book on mind control, pick this one, you can trust me on this, I have degrees in psychology and counseling don’t’cha know)
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost A. M. Meerloo
fun with true stories of governmental thought control: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
and fun stories about how us v. them thinking starts all this shit: Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
the infamous Stanford prison experiment (you asked for it): The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
Counterpunch: calling for reform at the APA in wake of Stephen Behnke’s dealings in torture, 2016
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE): airforce.com
Martin Seligman’s books on positive psychology and learned optimism
Band names from this episode:
Momma Frank: amazing Frank Zappa cover band, often opens for Zappa Plays Zappa
Brainwashstorm
Privatized Torture
memorysongs
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