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

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1907: 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar)....

August 27: August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining....

1988: 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar....

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