Psychic driving

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Psychic driving was a psychiatric procedure that patients felt was torturous, (as it relates to torture or suffering, and it describes experiences or processes that are very painful or distressing) developed in the 1950s and 1960s in which patients are subjected to a continuously repeated audio message, for example, on a looped tape, to alter their behaviour, obstruct their thinking and cause psychological pain and trauma. In the original cases of psychic driving, patients were often exposed to hundreds of thousands of repetitions of a single statement over the course of their treatment. They were also concurrently administered muscular paralytic drugs such as curare to subdue them for the purposes of exposure to the looped messages. The procedure was pioneered by Donald Ewen Cameron, at McGill University's new Allan Memorial Institute, and used and funded by the CIA's Project MKUltra program in Canada.

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