Torture is a Pre-Psychotic Syndrome

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Tortured Confessions:

Pre-psychotic Intoxication Syndrome (PpIS)

andThe Validation of

The Adrenochrome Hypothesis

Bradford S. Weeks, M.D. 2007

www.weeksmd.com
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The Biochemistry of the

Tortured Confession

Tortured vs. Psychotic


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Disclaimer

I am for using scientific rationale to

lessen human suffering.making me against torture

and

for real scientists like

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.


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THESIS

1) Torture, to the breaking point,

is unreasonable due to the fact that its confessions

are pre-psychotic utterances extracted under the

influence of the endogenous hallucinogen,adrenochrome, and for that reason are unreliable

and devoid of value;

2) Enticements of rewards and win-winnegotiations are the optimal methodology for

conflict resolution.


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Definition of the Problem

Torture does not produce reliableinformation.

Torture is inhuman - all parties suffer.

Torture is the official policy of the USA -

contrary to domestic laws andinternational treaties.


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Note: to self:

Make an attempt

to warm up the crowdand establish rapport

by starting the lecture with a

humorous anecdote or jokeabout torture.


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..


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I can t think of

anything funny

on that topic


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Psychosis and Torture

a review of the

scientific and clinical literature.


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The Wisdom of the Colloquial

You are driving me crazy.

I am beside myself.

You push me to the breaking point.


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The power of wordsBy naming things we have dominion over them

Consider the varied clinical

(and financial implications!)of these two terms:

nervous breakdown

vs.

psychotic illness


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What is a nervous breakdown ?

a temporary state of

incapacitation due to excessive

stress coupled with inadequate

coping ability .


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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnettpub. 1963 (author of The Secret Garden) page 146

Carmichael, he said. I must find herIf she is alive, she is somewhere. If she is

friendless and penniless, it is through my

fault. How is a man to get back his nervewith a thing like that on his mind?


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No, no said Carmichael.

Try to be calm. Console yourselfwith the fact that when she is

found you have a fortune to hand

over to her.


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The good-hearted father of the Large Family

put his hand on his shoulder comfortingly.

You ran away because your brain had

given way under the strain of mental torture,

he said. You were half delirious already. If

you had not been you would have stayed and

fought it out. You were in a hospital, strapped

down in bed, raving with brain fever, two daysafter you left the place. Remember that.


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from The Medical Record, Dec 8th 1917

During my several years experience in the sanatorium with

1100 patients. Tuberculosis may be considered as an

aetiological factor in the production of a psychosis in so far it

acts as an additional difficulty in the life of an individual who

is at the breaking point, successful adjustment to his

environment depended upon a fine balance, and theknowledge that he was suffering from tuberculosis was

sufficient to turn the scales resulting to complete inability of

adjustment and hence a psychosis.

In no sense must we consider tuberculosis as an etiological

factor in the production of a psychosis because of the

Tuberculosis toxemia.


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We all have a breaking point.

But

What is a breaking point

bio-chemically speaking?


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Dr. Abram Hoffer s

Adrenochrome Theoryoffers the best explanation of this bio-

chemical breaking point

see appendix for numerous related

publications

Hoffer, Osmond, Smythies et al 1951


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Well,you don t say!!


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A Brief History of the

(greatly tortured and much maligned)

Adrenochrome Hypothesis


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In 1884, J.W.L. Thudichum, who is regarded by many as

the father of modern neurochemistry, published a book on

brain chemistry in which he advanced the hypothesis that

"many forms of insanity" are caused by "poisons

fermented within the body," that is, toxic substances

produced or delivered to the brain by a faultymetabolism.

He also suggested that these unknown processes would

become quite obvious when we acquired a betterunderstanding of the biochemistry of the brain.

Stone from http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/stone/index.html
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Review of the literature shows. that

adrenochrome and its derivatives have

important biochemical and physiological

properties, entirely different from those of

adrenaline, and deserve further study.

The Metabolism of Adrenalin

Z. M. BacqPharmacological Reviews, Vol 1, 1-26, 1949


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Oxidation of adrenalin to quinone adrenochrome is

facilitated by copper, mercury, heavy metals, alkaline pH, uv light

Inhibited by reducing agents:

ascorbic acid (Verly, W. Arch Int. Physiology1948),

glutathione (Welach,Am J Physiology1934),

cysteine (Verly, W. Arch Int. Physiology1948)

dimercaptopropanol (BAL), (Bacq, Z Arch Int. Physiology1948)

amino acids, (Auderhalden,Pfluger s Archives1924)

phenyols (Bacq, Z Arch Int. Physiology1936)

thyroxin (DeCaro,L Zeit Physio Chem1933)

from The Metabolism of Adrenalin Z.M. Bacq, Liege Belgium


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In the case of schizophrenia, a brilliant series of

research papers, started in the early 1950s by A.Hoffer, H. Osmond, and their coworkers has brought

much light into this are and has been a major factor

in confirming Thudichum's insight. It has also served

to return the biochemistry of the body to psychiatryafter a long attempt to exile it in favor of culture and

psyche. This research was based on a hypothesis

which resulted from two simple observations:

(Stone from http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/stone/index.html


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1. There is chemical similarity between adrenalin,

the normal secretion of the adrenal gland, and

mescaline, a hallucinatory drug.

2. The psychological effects of mescaline on

humans in many ways resemble the symptoms of

acute schizophrenia. The faulty metabolism ofadrenalin in the body of a schizophrenic, possibly

due to a genetic defect, could lead to an adrenalin

metabolite with psychological properties resembling

those of mescaline, but much more potent. If such asubstance were made in the body, then clinical

schizophrenia would result.



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It was suggested that the faulty metabolism of

adrenalin led to an increased production of

adrenochrome, which they showed was anhallucinogen. Their hypothesis suggested that the

adrenochrome was partially responsible for the

changes produced in schizophrenia, and it would

follow that any method for decreasing adrenochrome

production from adrenalin would be therapeutic for

schizophrenia. This was attempted by using massive

doses of the vitamin, niacin, to reduce the formationof the precursor, adrenalin, from noradrenalin.


The Stories Around the Adrenochrome Hypothesis


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The Stories Around the Adrenochrome Hypothesis

1938 Green and Richter demonstrate that cytochrome oxidasecan convert epinepherine to adrenochrome.

1951 Hoffer, Osmond, Smythies et al begin lifelong collaboration

1958 Hoffer reports presence of adrenochrome in human plasma,

1958 Szara fails to confirm Hoffer s finding

Julius Axelrod acts like a modern scientist , collaborates with

Seymore Kety to get the Nobel prize. 1951- present Hoffer s patients continue to get well and pay

taxes and continues to publish papers which are ignoredSee http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/archive_list/index.shtml

for listing of JOM articles 1967-present!

New generations of orthomolecular psychiatrists carry on thepolitically and economically incorrect work of offering patientssafe, effective, and cost effective care.
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/archive_list/index.shtmlhttp://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/archive_list/index.shtml


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The Adrenochrome Hypothesis:

Scientific Support


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VanderKamp (6), in 1966, found that

schizophrenics metabolized ascorbic acid at rate 10

times that of a control group.

He gave 6 to 8 grams of ascorbic acid every 4 hours to

a group of ten schizophrenics, or a total of 36 to 48grams of ascorbic acid a day.

All ten of the patients showed definite clinical

improvement.



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The adrenochrome hypothesis of schizophrenia

revisited.

Neurotox Res. 2002 Mar;4(2):147-50

Prof. John Smythies, M.D.

Abstract: This paper reviews the current status of the adrenochrome theoryof schizophrenia. An account is first given of all the experiments in which

adrenochrome was reported to induce psychotomimetic effects in normal

volunteers. Then the evidence is presented that adrenochrome may actually

occur in the brain as a metabolite of adrenaline in the C2 group of

adrenergic neurons in the medulla, together with an account of currentideas of the function of these neurons in higher limbic functions.

Lastly the recent evidence is reviewed that the gene for the enzyme

glutathione S-transferase is defective in schizophrenia. This enzyme

detoxifies adrenochrome.


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Glutathione S-transferase M1 gene deletion may be

associated with susceptibility to certain forms ofschizophrenia.Harada, S, et al Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2001 Feb 23;281(2):267-71.

Recent studies have revealed that GSTM1 and M2 of the mu-class

glutathione S-transferases catalyze a glutathione conjugate of catechol o-quinones including dopachrome, noradrenochrome, and adrenochrome

under physiological conditions.

Reduced or negative levels of activity amongst these enzymes would lead to

an excess of neurotoxic compounds of catecholamine o-quinones. A defect

in the mechanisms responsible for this form of detoxification may

contribute to the development of certain forms of schizophrenia.
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The frequency of the GSTM1*0 allele was significantly

higher amongst the patients with schizophrenia compared to

controls (P = 0.0075). Moreover, the incidence of theGSTM1*0 was significantly higher amongst the

schizophrenic patients classified as disorganized type (P =

0.0008), relative to the control sample.

Our findings suggest that the GSTM1*0 is associated with an

increased susceptibility to schizophrenia, particularly

disorganized type of the disease. It is therefore likely that the

GSTM1 gene deletion constitutes to vulnerability for disease

states of this kind, rather than being the direct cause ofschizophrenic conditions.


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Linus Pauling (10), in a 1967 paper entitled,"Orthomolecular Somatic and Psychiatric

Medicine," proposed a new means of treating

disease. The therapy merely provides theoptimal molecular constitution of the body,

especially the optimal concentration of

substances which are normally present in the

human body and are required for life itself.


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It is known that the proper functioning of the

mind requires the presence in the brain ofmolecules of many different substances, such

as the B vitamins and ascorbic acid, and

malfunction may result if optimal levels arenot maintained. This work, which provides

the rationale for the use of large doses of

normal metabolites in the treatment of mentaldisease, was further elaborated in a paper on

"Orthomolecular Psychiatry" in 1968.


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Oxidative reactions and schizophrenia: a review-discussion.

Smythies,John Schizophr Res. 1997 Apr 11;24(3): 357-64.

Now that definitive direct evidence has been obtained that oxidized

metabolites of catecholamines-aminochrome (derived from dopamine) and

related compounds-occur in the human brain the question this paper

explores is what is their function there, if any. They are precursors of

neuromelanin and are formed inter alia by co-oxidation by prostaglandin Hsynthase during the synthesis of prostaglandin H from arachidonic acid.

Their further metabolism by NAHPD-cytochrome P450 reductase forms

the highly neurotoxic o-semiquinone together with free oxygen radicals.

The defenses against these orthoquinones (o-quinones) and o-semiquinones

(which include reduction, O-methylation, 5-cysteinylization, glutathione

conjugation, conversion to the o-hydroquinone, and neuromelanin

formation), and their possible status in schizophrenia, are reviewed.
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This system is closely linked with glutamate neurotoxicity

because glutamate receptors activate PGH synthase and

because dopamine toxicity is mediated by these o-quinones

acting on NMDA receptors. Interactions between glutamateand dopamine neurotoxicity are explored, including a possible

role for the redox properties of catecholamines. The hypothesis

is presented that some of the demonstrated cellular damage in

the schizophrenic brain may be mediated by catecholamine o-quinones.

The significance of the evidence from previous studies carried

out 40 years ago, that a closely related catecholamine o-

quinone-adrenochrome-has psychotomimetic properties in

humans and behavior disrupting properties in animals, is

reviewed in the light of these recent findings.


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Well,imagine that!

It only took

57 years!!


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I didn t only learn about

adrenochrome and

orthomolecular biochemistry

from Dr. Hoffer.


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Dr. Hoffer s therapeutic comment

to patients.

I wish I hadyour gene pool!


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Dr. Hoffer s therapeutic question

to patients.

What will you dowhen you get well?


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TheAdrenochrome Hypothesis:

Clinical Applications


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Corrective

Medicine & Psychiatry


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Which is better?

Ferrari Jeep


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The Two Categories of Patients in my Practice

Psychiatric -

High performance

but better stay on road and

get regular maintenance!)

Somatic -

Can stay up all night partying,over imbibe, shake it off

and do it again the next night.

No mechanic required.


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Question from a new receptionist.

How do I know

which patient is psychiatric

and which is not?


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Answer:

They (we!) are ALL

psychiatric patients

to the degree that they are

suffering.


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Psychological torture

is far worse

than physical torture.

Theodor H. Lustig tranlated from German

as LEssai sur la psychologie de la terreur

1946 published in Complex Winter 1951


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Adrenochrome Hypothesis restated and paraphrased

for patients in my practice:

When more adrenalin is created (in response to

multi-factorial stress) than the body has

orthomolecules and adaptive behaviors to adequately

(safely) metabolize, then the suboptimal method for

rendering adrenalin inert via oxidation is utilized.

Oxidized adrenalin, adrenochrome , is anendogenous hallucinogen which is implicated in all

psychotic illnesses including schizophrenia, mania,

depersonalization and dissociation experiences.


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What I tell my patients.

You are not mentally ill.

You are intoxicated.


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Distress vs. Disease

Intoxication vs. Illness

Being Drunk vs. Being a Drunk

Q estion for a patient:


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Question for a patient:

If you have never tasted alcohol beforeand I manage to slip you a gallon of rum,

you would most certainly be drunk.

But,

would you be

a drunk ?


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Question for patient:

If you become overwhelmed with stress

and create too much adrenochrome,

you would certainly have a nervousbreakdown,

but would you be

mentally ill?


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Emotional/ Environmental Stress


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Adrenochrome,

(an endogenous

hallucinogen)

Auto-oxidation

with Cu+

Niacin asa methyl-

acceptor

3,4 dihydroxyphenylglycol (DHPG)

Leukoadrenochrome

Adrenolutin

(an endogenous

hallucinogen)

Nor adrenalin

AdrenalinVitamin C

Deaminated Aldehyde

Intermediates

Alcohol/Acid metabolites

Aldehyde reductase

Dihydroxymandelic acid (DHMA)

Vanillylmandelic acid (VMA)

MAO


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Example of a rational

treatment protocol: the cast.

The Health Pyramid


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LIFESTYLE FACTORS

Repair the NET

Nutrition (get it) Exercise (use it) Thoughts (manage it)

Supplement

and / or

Detoxify

Drugs / Surgery

Hospital

y

Bradford S. Weeks, M.D.


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But it is NOT rational

treatment if the patient is

still in a cast 6 years

later!

.

Well, we never knowwhen you might break

your leg again, so we

surgeons decided to keep

you in this cast for therest of your life. Better to

be safe than sorry!


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Therapeutic Insight

based uponthe Adrenochrome Hypothesis:

Weallhave a breaking point. (effort to de-stigmatize)

The problem is correctable. (the role of hope)


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CASE STUDY


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DX: OCD, Tourettes, Major Depression, Myalgias,

SX: disfiguring spastic tics (constant - 100 tics a minute ),yelling, stuttering, unable to concentrate, depression, helpless

hopeless, worthless, angry; (only child, both parents are doctors)

Age of onset for SX: infancy, Chicken Pox MMR->serious feverDuration of SX prior to CM&P treatment: 15 yearsPrognosis by psychiatrist: no hope, no future education, work in

the trades, stay on medications (Risperal 1.5mg since 1998,

Prozac 20mg since 1996),

Age when started CM&P treatment: 15 December 2003


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CM&P Dx and Rx:

Educate and De-stigmatize

Corrective replenishment & biotherapeutic drainage:

Lifestyle, MVMM, EFA, UNDA

Food allergies/gastritis: no dairy/wheat, Betaine HCL pepsin

Yeast: yeast-free diet, Apo-Fluconazol, saccromyces. B.

Myalgia: magnesium and rehydrationLow iodine: SSKI

GABA receptor dysfunction: GABA and Xyrem (GHB)


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Duration of time to get off prescription meds: 2 months

Duration of treatment in office: 4 visits over 9 monthsCurrent status: sophomore at Reed College, straight

A s, happy, planning career in medicine;

Meaningful relationships? Yes (self included!)

Employed? Not yet, full academic loadPaying taxes? Not yet

We ARE so delighted -

we worship the ground you walk on Dr. Weeks.

from the parents


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CASE STUDY


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DX: Schizophrenia

SX: Visual and auditory (command and demeaning)

hallucinations, depression, stopped high-school, house

bound, no friends visit, unable to read or compute,

watches TV, weight gain on Zyprexa: 120 pounds!!!

Age of onset for SX: 15Duration of SX prior to CM&P treatment: 2 years

Prognosis by psychiatrist: no hope, no future education,

sheltered home; stay on medications, (Zyprexa,

Welbutrin, Lexapro, Glucophage, Atenolol, diet)

Age when started CM&P treatment: 17 May 2001


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CM&P Dx and Rx:

Educate and De-stigmatize

Corrective replenishment & biotherapeutic drainage:

Lifestyle (diet, exercise), MVMM, EFA, UNDA, IMvitamin B shots, NAC,

Food allergies/gastritis: no dairy/wheat, Betaine HCL

pepsinYeast: yeast-free diet, Apo-Fluconazol, saccromyces. B.

Low iodine: SSKI

D i f i ff i i d 5


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Duration of time to get off prescription meds: 5

months

Duration of treatment in office: 5 visits over 17

months

Date of last consultation: 2003

Current status: GED 2002, graduated College 2007,

started medical school fall, 2007,

Meaningful relationship? Yes, boyfriendEmployed? Yes Part time at school with professor

Paying taxes? Yes


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Letter from

mother of the patientto psychiatrist


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Psychiatry is more fun

when the patients get well.

BSW

I enjoy my practice of psychiatry

quite well, thank you very much!

her former psychiatrist


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Thank you, Abram

(and all the otherorthomolecular pioneers!)


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TORTURE IN USA


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Regardless of all differences between patients

who have suffered from psychotic breakdowns

and those with the sequelae of torture, our

experience have shown that some common

features can be recognized.

The `living dead'Survivors of torture and psychosis

Werbart, AndrzejPsychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Volume 7, Number 2,

1993 , pp. 163-179(17)

A medical malpractice suit filed yesterday


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A medical malpractice suit filed yesterday

asserts that a Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist

who diagnosed the girl as bipolar when she was28 months old and then treated her for two

years with a regimen of powerful drugs is to

blame for her death.

The parents of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley are

awaiting trial on charges that they killed her in

December 2006 with an overdose of psychiatricdrugs.

Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff April 4, 2008


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Rebecca Riley2002-2006

See www.caica.org


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The Army Field Manual 2-22.3, officially titled

Human Intelligence Collector Operations eschews coercion and instead offers general

advice on behavior:

People tend to want to talk when they are

under stress and respond to kindness and

understanding during trying circumstances .

It offers 19 approaches to interrogation that Congress


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wants the C.I.A. to stick to, including:

- Mutt and Jeff, or good cop, bad cop;- We Know All, in which the interrogator pretends

merely to be confirming details of a story he knows

already;

- Rapid-Fire Questioning, to produce contradictionsthat can then be challenged;

- Ego Up, in which flattery produces a bond;

- False Flag, in which an American interrogator poses

as one from another nation.

The principles are familiar to anyone who s watched

enough police procedurals.


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The overriding principle should be:

Make it as easy as possible forsomeone to cooperate with you, he

said. If we want someone to re-create

in minute detail something thathappened three years ago, how can we

help them remember?

Col. Steven M. Kleinman, a veteran interrogator in Iraq


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International Treaties

The Geneva Conventions consist of four sequential


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cumulative treaties which establish reasonable

standards for international law during times of

war to protect non-combatants and prisoners ofwar.

Henry Dunant was the driving force in theestablishment of these treaties after he witnessed

horrors and inhumanity during the Battle of

Solferino in 1859.

Three amendments to the Geneva Conventions

were added in 1977 and 2005.

The Geneva Conventions declare that all signatory


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g y

states must establish and enforce sufficient domestic

laws that make grave violations of the Geneva

Conventions by national or military leadership andfunctionaries a punishable criminal offense .

"No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of

coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure

from them information of any kind whatever.

Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be

threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant ordisadvantageous treatment of any kind."

Third Geneva Convention, Article 17


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Forced confessions

are knownto be unreliable.


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Senior law enforcement agents with the Criminal

Investigation task Force (CIFT), a military unit

made up of members from all the branches of theU.S. armed forces created in 2002 by the US dept. of

Defense to conduct investigations of detainees

captured in the War on Terrorism, told

MSNBC.com in 2006 that they complained insidethe Defense Department in 2002 that the

"interrogation" tactics used by a separate team of

intelligence investigators were

unproductive, not likely to produce reliable

information, and probably illegal.

PORTIA (to her love, Bassanio)


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Ay, but I fearyou speak upon the rack,

Where men enforced

do speak anything.

The Merchant of Veniceby Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,

aka Shakespeare see www.shakespeare-oxford.com/


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Under torture you are as if under the

dominion of those grasses that produce visions.

Under torture you say not only what the

inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine

might please him, because a bond

(this, truly, diabolical)

is established between you and him.

Umberto Eco


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(Bush) has rejected the Army fieldmanual s recognition that such horrific

tactics elicit unreliable information, put

U.S. troops at risk and undermine ourcounterinsurgency efforts,

Mr. Harry Reid, ranking Democrat


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March 8, 2008

Mr. Bush vetoed a bill that would have explicitly

prohibited the agency from using interrogation

methods like waterboarding, a technique in whichrestrained prisoners are threatened with drowning

and that has been the subject of intense criticism at

home and abroad. Many such techniques are

prohibited by the military and law enforcementagencies.


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La plus cachange

Waterboardingcirca 1556


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TECHNIQUES OF TORTURE


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Experts Marty Lederman, H. Candace

Gorman, Arthur Bright, Scott Horton have

reported that blogger, political commentator

and former editor ofThe New Republic

Andrew Sullivan claimed that "enhancedinterrogation" bears remarkable resemblance

to the techniques the Gestapo called

"Verschrfte Vernehmung," for which someof them faced prosecution in Norway after

World War II and were"found guilty of war

crimes and sentenced to death.

Verschrfte Vernehmung"


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Verschrfte Vernehmung

loosely translated "enhanced interrogation" employs

techniques including:

- Simplest or contaminated rations to the point of

malnutrition and starvation;

- Hard bed to the point of inducing sleep deprivation;- Dark cell to the point of inducing confusion and

disorientation in time and place;

- Exhaustion exercises to the point of giving up hope.

- Blows with a stick to the point of depersonalizationand dissociation

Note: these Nazis' interrogative methods


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were found to be torture.

In contrast, objective assessment by

historians notes that Allies' methods of

interrogation at the time were far lessabusive and far more effective than

either the Nazi Verschrfte

Vernehmung" or the enhancedinterrogation techniques used by the

United States today:


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White House nears completion of new

torture guidelines.

Critics say administration's endorsement

of 'enhanced interrogation' is 'immoral,'draw comparisons to Nazi war crimes

By Arthur Bright,The Christian Science Monitor,

May 31 2007

The 18 techniques were divided into three categories

d i h l di id


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and came with only rudimentary guidance.

No limits were placed on how many methods could be

used at once, or for how many days in succession.

The detainee was to be provided with a chair.

The environment should be generally comfortable.

If the detainee was uncooperative, you went toCategory I.

Category 1: This comprised two techniques,

yelling and deception.

Category II included 12 techniques aimed at


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humiliation and sensory deprivation:

the use of stress positions such as standing;sleep deprivation;

isolation for up to 30 days;

deprivation of light and sound;

20-hour interrogations;

removal of religious items;

removal of clothing;

forcible grooming, such as the shaving of facial hair;

the use of individual phobias, (fear of dogs), in order

to induce stress.

When sleep deprivation becomes great enough


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When sleep deprivation becomes great enough,

the effects mimic those of psychosis .

Today, average young adults report sleeping about

seven to seven and one-half hours each night. Comparethis to sleep patterns in 1910, before the electric light bulb,

the average person slept nine hours each night.

This means that today's population sleeps oneto two hours less than people did early in the century

(Webb and Agnew, 1975).

Per Lt Cmdr John J Ross of the U S Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research


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Per Lt. Cmdr. John J. Ross of the U.S. Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research

Unit in San Diego. Gardner's symptoms that Ross reported included:

* Day 2: Difficulty focusing eyes and signs of astereognosis (difficulty recognizing

objects by touch).

* Day 3: Moodiness, some signs of ataxia (inability to repeat simple tongue twisters).

* Day 4: Irritability and uncooperative attitude, memory lapses and difficulty

concentrating. Gardner's first hallucination was that a street sign was a person,followed by a delusional episode in which he imagined that he was a famous black

football player.

* Day 5: More hallucinations (e.g., seeing a path extending from the room in front of

him down through a quiet forest). These were sometimes described as "hypnagogic

reveries" since Gardner recognized, at least after a short while, that the visions wereillusionary in nature.

* Day 6: Speech slowing and difficulty naming common objects.


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Day 7 and 8: Irritability, speech slurring and increased memory lapses.

* Day 9: Episodes of fragmented thinking; frequently beginning, but not

finishing, his sentences.

* Day 10: Paranoia focused on a radio show host who Gardner felt was

trying to make him appear foolish because he ws having difficulty

remembering some details about his vigil.

* Day 11: Expressionless appearance, speech slurred and without

intonation; had to be encouraged to talk to get him to respond at all. His

attention span was very short and his mental abilities were diminished. In

a serial sevens test, where the respondent starts with the number 100 and

proceeds downward by subtracting seven each time, Gardner got back to65 (only five subtractions) and then stopped. When asked why he had

stopped he claimed that he couldn't remember what he was supposed to

be doing.


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Though short periods

of sensory deprivation

can be relaxing,extended deprivation

can result in extreme

anxiety,

hallucinations, bizarrethoughts, depression

and antisocial

behavior.

A prisoner at the United States Camp X-ray facility at Guantanamo Bay, in

Cuba being subjected to sensory deprivation, through the use of goggles, ear

muffs, visor, breathing mask and heavy mittens

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Category III included four techniques:

1) the use of mild, non-injurious physical contact, such asgrabbing, poking, and light pushing;

2) the use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee

that death or severely painful consequences were imminent

for him or his family;

3) exposure to cold weather or water;

4) waterboarding.

This last technique, which powerfully mimics the

experience of drowning, was later described by

Vice President Cheney as a dunk in the water.

Music as a weapon for torture.


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p

November 18, 1998, authorizing now-defunct Synetics Corporation to produce

a tightly focused beam ofinfrasoundthat is, vibration waves slower than 100vpsmeant to produce effects that range from disabling or lethal.

In 1999, Maxwell Technologies patented a HyperSonic Sound System, another

highly directional device ... designed to control hostile crowds or disable

hostage takers.

The same year Primex Physics International patented both the Acoustic

Blaster, which produced repetitive impulse waveforms of 165dB, directable

at a distance of 50 feet, for antipersonnel applications, and the Sequential Arc

Discharge Acoustic Generator, which produces high intensity impulsive sound

waves by purely electrical means

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Nancy Sinatra singing

These Boots were made for Walking

was aimed at

Branch Davidian family members

at Waco, Texas April 19th 1993.

source: Aleksandr Kachurov

Moscow Psychotronic Institure

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/nancy.htm

Torture technique details under the Bush administration today


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Former and current CIA officials have revealed details of

interrogation techniques authorized by the CIA under President

GW Bush.These include:

The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt

front of the prisoner and shakes him.

Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and

triggering fear.

The Belly Slap: A hard open-handed slap to the abdomen. The

aim is to cause pain, but not internal injury. Doctors consulted

advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal

damage.

Long Time Standing: This technique is described as among the

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most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and

with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor, for more than

40 hours.

The Cold Cell: The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept

near 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius).

Water boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board,

feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Material is wrapped

over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him.

Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of

drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment toa halt.

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And you could inflict pain


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And you could inflict pain.

You also had stress positions, and

you escalated the stress

positions, Davis said. Hand-cuffs behind their backs, high up,

in very uncomfortable positions,or chained down.


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La plus

ca change

Then you had the submersion. You put


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the people in garbage cans, and you d

put ice in it, and water. Or stick themunderneath the shower spigot naked.

They d be freezing.

It was a routine, he said: Open a

window while it was, like, forty degrees

outside and watch them disappear intothemselves . . .

before they go into shock.


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This year I was really a player, Feith said, thinking

back on 2002 and relishing the memory. I asked

him whether, in the end, he was at all concerned thatthe Geneva decision might have diminished

America s moral authority. He was not.

The problem with moral authority, he said, was

people who should know better, like yourself, siding

with the assholes, to put it crudely.

Douglas J. Feith. As undersecretary of defense for policy, directly below Wolfowitz and

Donald Rumsfeld as reported by by Phillippe Sands May 2008 in Vanity Fair


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Haynes recommended that Rumsfeld give

blanket approval to 15 out of 18 proposedtechniques of aggressive interrogation.

Rumsfeld duly did so, on December 2, 2002,

signing his name firmly next to the wordApproved. Under his signature he also

scrawled a few words that refer to the length

of time a detainee can be forced to stand

during interrogation.


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However,

I stand for 8-10hours a day.

Why is standing

limited to 4 hours?

D.R.


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Freedom Tickles

Not all the Americans in Iraq

are those who torture and

murder.

I don't know how many

are doing it but I know it is

systematic throughout the

United States military.

I think that's been revealed .

John Pilger


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Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers

reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Edward Kennedy


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Abu Ghraib 2004


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I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from theprison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around

about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes

you want to take a shower, you know? Ron Reagan


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How did the US get into this mess?


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In a talk presented at the Second


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International Conference of Social

Psychiatry in London in 1969, Paulingsuggested that an optimal intake of

ascorbic acid could mean a 10 percent

improvement in physical and mentalhealth. He speculated:

"What would be the consequences for the

world if the national leaders and thepeople as a whole were to think just 10

percent more clearly?"


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The healthy man does not torture others

generally it is the tortured who turn in to torturers.

Carl Gustv Jung


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Bush s response to citizens demand to

Clean up the CIA


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The Outraged US Citizenry


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In general, persons who have been tortured prefer a holistic approach

that addresses their current reality in a culturally sensitive way. Many

have begun to recover from torture with the help of proper nutritionand exercise that may enhance the patient's coping ability and resilience.

Torture and its human and social effects are now in the global public eye.

Medical professionals must relinquish their fears and take the lead in

healing the wounds inflicted by the most extreme acts of human aggression.Commitment to a process that begins with a simple but courageous act

asking the right questionbespeaks the belief that medicine is a potent

antidote to the practices of torturers.

Surviving Torture

Richard F. Mollica, M.D. NEJM 2004 Jul 1;351(1):5-7.

In considering how human rights might serve as a 'guiding value' in
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American foreign policy, one should not dismiss the historical record,

which is ample. There is indeed a close relationship between human

rights and American foreign policy. There is substantial evidence thatAmerican aid and diplomatic support increase as human rights

violations increase, at least in the Third World. Extensive violations of

human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of

the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of

representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directlycorrelated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental;

rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism

often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite

generally the guiding factor in foreign policy. It would be nave indeed

to think that this will change materially, given the realities of Americansocial structure and the grip of the state ideological system.

Noam Chomsky


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My view is history is going to judge us all.

Rep. Bill Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts


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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Gandhi

Summary and Conclusions


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When stressed past ones breaking point, (defined biochemically by

the intoxicating accumulation of adrenochrome), whether from life

in general or a torturer in specific, people experience worsening

stages of disorientation, depersonalization, and distress.

In clinical settings this is termed psychosis, mania,

schizophrenia and more accurately, nervous breakdown.

In political settings when being tortured, this is termed willingness

to confess.

In both instances, the biochemistry renders the content implausible

to the point of being an unreliable version of reality since the

subject is intoxicated past his ability to speak the truth.


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Diagnostic & Therapeutic Tools

Clinical Presentation

Physical ExaminationReview of Medical History

Review of Psychiatric History

Review of Scientific Literature

Might I suggest a.


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Review

ofPoetic Literature?

Might I suggest a.


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i sing of Olaf glad and big

whose warmest heart recoiled at war:

a conscientious object-or

his wellbelovd colonel(trig

westpointer most succinctly bred)


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westpointer most succinctly bred)

took erring Olaf soon in hand;but--though an host of overjoyed

noncoms(first knocking on the head

him)do through icy waters rollthat helplessness which others stroke

with brushes recently employed

anent this muddy toiletbowl,while kindred intellects evoke

allegiance per blunt instruments--


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Olaf (being to all intents

a corpse and wanting any ragupon what God unto him gave)

responds, without getting annoyed

"I will not kiss your fucking flag"straightway the silver bird looked grave

(departing hurriedly to shave)

but--though all kinds of officers

(a yearning nation's blueeyed pride)


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(a yearning nation s blueeyed pride)

their passive prey did kick and curse

until for wear their clarion

voices and boots were much the worse,

and egged the firstclassprivates on

his rectum wickedly to teaseby means of skillfully applied

bayonets roasted hot with heat--

Olaf (upon what were once knees)does almost ceaselessly repeat

"there is some shit I will not eat"

our president, being of which

assertions duly notified


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assertions duly notified

threw the yellowsonofabitch

into a dungeon,where he died

Christ (of His mercy infinite)

i pray to see; and Olaf, toopreponderatingly because

unless statistics lie he was

more brave than me:

more blond than you.

-edward estlin cummings 1931


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ee cummings1884-1962

I pleased only


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I pleased only

my patients. Paracelsus

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

going strong at 90!


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Final Case History


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brain of science a machine or force

so fearful in its potentialities, soabsolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter, who will dare torture

and death in order to inflict tortureand death, will be appalled,

and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison


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