NARCO ANALYSIS - rape of mind ....
THE RAPE OF THE MIND: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social Research, Former Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces, published in 1956, World Publishing Company.
State Forensic Science lab Director B M Mohan has stressed that narco-analysis in crime investigation is doing wonders, and is helping a lot in crime prevention and detection. During his lecture, he dwelt upon the standard procedural protocol to be utilized, techniques that may be better determinants of truths, emergence of DNA evidence, existing technologies which include brain mapping, finger-printing, polygraphs, and drugs like truth serum (Sodium Pentathal), P-300 tests, lie detectors and the reluctance of law in accepting these new technologies.
Narco analysis
The term narco-analysis is derived from the Greek word narkē (meaning "anesthesia" or "torpor") and is used to describe a diagnostic and psychotherapeutic technique that uses psychotropic drugs, particularly barbiturates, to induce a stupor in which mental elements with strong associated affects come to the surface, where they can be exploited by the therapist.
Narco-analysis appeared in the mid-1930s as a result of the discovery of quickly acting barbiturates with short-term effects. The term analysis is used in Pierre Janet's sense of a process that, by means of a partial dissolution of consciousness, undoes the complex syntheses of waking mental life and accesses mental content that is more automatic. Other terms have also been used, such as "narco-synthesis," "chemical psychoanalysis" and "psychosomatic narco-analysis."
A person is able to lie by using his imagination. In the Narco Analysis Test, making him semi-conscious neutralizes the subject’s imagination. In this state, it becomes difficult for him to lie and his answers would be restricted to facts he is already aware of.
Experts inject a subject with Sodium Pentothal or Sodium Amytal. The dose is dependent on the person's sex, age, health and physical condition. A wrong dose can result in a person going into a coma, or even death.
The subject is not in a position to speak up on his own but can answer specific but simple questions. The answers are believed to be spontaneous as a semi-conscious person is unable to manipulate the answers.
P –300 Tests:
When the brain recognizes a person or a sound, it generates a particular type of electric wave, which is called a P300. Sensors are attached to the head of a person undergoing a P300 test and the subject is seated before a computer monitor. He is then shown certain images or made to hear certain sounds. The sensors monitor electrical activity in the brain and register P300 waves, which are generated only if the subject has some connection with the stimulus, in this case pictures or sounds.
It would be a vast oversimplification to stick an easy psychiatric label on all such feelings of mental persecution, for there are many real, outside mental pressures in our world, and there are many perfectly normal people who are continually aware of and disturbed by the barrage of stimuli directed at their minds through propaganda, advertising, radio, television, the movies, the newspapers -- all the gibbering maniacs whose voices never stop. These people suffer because a cold, mechanical, shouting world is knocking continuallly at the doors of their minds and disturbing their feelings of privacy and personal integrity.
The Lie Detector:
Hypnotism and narco-analysis are only two of the current devices that can be misused as instruments of enforced intrusion into the mind. The lie-detector, which has already been used as a tool for mental intimidation, is another. This apparatus, useful for psychobiological experimentation, can indicate -- through writing down meticulously the changes in the psychogalvanic reflex -- that the human guinea pig under investigation reacts more emotionally to certain questions than to others. True, this overreaction may be the reaction to having told a lie, but it may also be an innocent person's reaction to an emotion-laden situation or even to an increased fear of unjust accusation.
The interpersonal processes between interrogator and test have just as much influence on the emotional reactions and the changes in the galvanic reflex as feelings of inner guilt and confusion. This experiment only indicates inner turmoil and hidden repressions, with all their doubts and ambiguities.
It is not in fact a lie detector, although it is used as such (D. MacDonald). As a matter of fact, the pathological liar and the psychopathic, conscienceless personality may show less reaction to this experiment than do normal people. The lie detector is more likely to become a tool of coercion in the hands of men who look more for a powerful magic in every instrument than a means of getting at the truth. As a result, even the innocent can be fooled into false confession.
Brain-Mapping:
When Lewis and Clark set out to map America, they had to find ways to observe and chart the land around them. Today's surveyors also depend on creative ways of studying and mapping what many consider the final frontier--the human brain. While anatomical blueprints have existed for centuries, the new challenge lies in creating a functional map--a chart that shows where in our brain we hear music, get a joke, or even think about our brain called as mapping of human brain.
Brain mapping is a neuroscience area of research and clinical applications, which studies and develops advanced techniques for imaging, representation, analysis, visualization and interpretation of brain imaging and Meta data.
Exposing a large area of the brain during surgery, stimulating its surface, and simply watching what happened made some early functional maps. A technique using that same principle, called magneto encephalography (you can call it MEG, unless you're really into tongue-twisters), gives neuroscientists a less-invasive look. Small sensors are placed all over the patient's head to detect electromagnetic changes caused by neurons. By monitoring this energy, scientists can measure levels of brain activity. This information is updated every millisecond, matching a patient's active thinking speed.
Scientists sometimes collect data on a subject in a roundabout manner. For instance, the brain uses one-quarter of all the oxygen you breathe. Neurologists can identify the active sections of the brain by tracking oxygen-rich blood. Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is the first noninvasive, nonradioactive way to observe brain activity. An MRI machine relies on very large magnets to track the flow of blood cells in the brain and identify where the brain processes our thoughts, motor activities, and sensations. This system has such good terminal resolution that it can record changes in the brain, which occur even just 50 milliseconds apart.
No single mapping technique provides complete information. Scientists combine a number of technologies to create more comprehensive maps of the human brain. These maps provide critical information to help neurosurgeons perform safer robotic microneurosurgery or even help scientists identify the brain sections that hear different musical tones. As technology advances, it's just a matter of time before a map of the human mind will be as detailed and comprehensive as a road map.
In addition, these drugs and tests fortify more than ever in our "aspirin age" the fiction that we have to use miracle drugs in order to become free-acting agents. The propaganda for chemical elation, for artificial ecstasy and pseudo-nirvanic experience contains an invitation to men to become chemical dependents, and chemical dependents are weak people who can be made use of by any tyrannical political potentate. The actual propaganda carried on among general practitioners using treatment with all kinds of anxieties and mental disturbances with new drugs has the same kind of dangerous implications.
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