William Sargant

William Walters Sargant (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), British psychiatrist, Founder and Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London, where he established a laboratory for mind control experiments. He was also a consultant to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI5/MI6).

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April 24 - 1907 - August 27 - 1988 - British - Psychiatrist - St Thomas' Hospital - London - Mind control - British Secret Intelligence Service (MI5 - MI6

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William Sargant was a pioneer in methods of placing false memories into patients. He attested at the 1977 U.S. Senate hearing, "that the therapist should deliberately distort the facts of the patient's life-experience to achieve heightened emotional response and abreaction. In the drunken state of narcoanalysis patients are prone to accept the therapist's false constructions."

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1977 - U.S. Senate

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In 1957 William Sargant published one of the first books on the psychology of brainwashing, Battle for the Mind.

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1957 - Brainwashing

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