From McGowan's Programmed to Kill:
the basic methodology was revealed decades ago by George Estabrooks - a prominent psychologist/hypnotist under contract to the intelligence services - in his book Hypnotism, first published nearly six decades ago, in 1943.
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Estabrooks only alludes to the severe trauma required to create a true multiple, often euphemistically referring to the trauma as a form of hypnosis. At one point he notes that "[several personalities] are primarily caused by some form of hypnosis! We will see that emotional shock produces exactly the same results as hypnosis.” He later gets closer to grim reality when he says: “Multiple personality could be both caused and cured by hypnosis. Remember that war is a sombre business."
In 1959 Esterbrooks applied to The National Institute of Mental Health to fund his proposed study:
"Hypnotism in Juvenile Delinquency". The National Institution of Mental Health was at the time a cutout for MKUltra subprojects.(mentioned in senate hearing:
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sit ... kultra.pdf)
In the research proposal Estabrooks writes:
"This study would be primarily a field investigation of the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as a technique for redirecting the behavior of juvenile delinquents. The proposed research is original."
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“It is quite likely that in a large proportion, say, 50 per cent, of the cases classed as juvenile delinquents, hypnotherapy offers a promising approach. While one out of five adults are good hypnotic subjects, four out of five children fall in this category.”
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The first step would be to secure access to a number of juvenile delinquents through the cooperation of the courts and the parents. This would require very careful planning in view of the novelty of the proposal.
- page 26,
https://documents.theblackvault.com/doc ... s-fbi2.pdfIn August 1961
MKUltra Subproject 136: 'Experimental Analysis of Extrasensory Perception' was approved for funding.
In working with individual subjects, special attention will be given to disassociative states, which tend to accompany spontaneous ESP experiences. Such states can be induced or controlled to some extent with hypnosis and drugs. Some of this work will make use of qualitative stimuli, such as drawings and ideas with special associations. . .
The data used in this study will be obtained from group ESP experiments which have yielded significant results, nigh
scoring subjects (including control series and records taken after they 'lost their ability), from special groups
such as psychotics, children and mediums, and from psychological and educational tests. . .
In other cases drugs and psychological tricks will be used to modify his attitudes. The experimenters will be particularly interested in disassociative states, from the abaissment de niveau mental to multiple personality in so-called mediums, and an attempt will be made to induce a number of states of this kind, using hypnosis.”
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https://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items ... 017395.pdfSo it actually was an MKUltra thing. Started in the 60s/70s as speculative research then was outsourced to sadist pedophile groups in the 1980s when these spooks realized that it actually worked but was so fucking cruel they needed further separation from it. And so we get the 'satanic panic'.
