Mind Control and the Torture Conditioning of Dissociation
Can dissociative amnesia be intentionally conditioned to create real mind-controlled amnestic effects against a persons will with one key ingredient: trauma.
“In CIA safe-houses in Germany,” according to one study, “Olson witnessed horrific brutal interrogations on a regular basis. Detainees who were deemed ‘expendable’ – suspected spies or moles, security leaks, etc – were literally interrogated to death in experimental methods combining drugs, hypnosis and torture, to attempt to master brainwashing techniques and memory erasing.” - Stephen Kinzer
Dissociation is the result of extreme and repetitive trauma, often from a very young age whilst the mind is still forming and heavily plastic. Often it correlates to trauma related to a key caregiver and in environments that cannot be escaped, frequently related to severe and repeat sexual violence. It is compounded by the helplessness of the victim and the repetitive and extreme nature of the abuse.
With systematic torture, amnestic triggers could be decifered and enhanced intentionally by sophisticated perpatrators with repeat violence so as to create a method to traumtically incapacitate a victim and force them in to a state they wont remember against their will but at the will and whim of the perpetrator.
This torture base conditioning would start in childhood and continued as long as the amnesia is required in those susceptible to dissociation.
Further supporting methods could be employed to ensure amnesia is upheld such as to maintain the threatening nature of the environment. The more powerful the perpetrators, the more capable they would be in maintaining imprisonment or environmental control, ensuring the victim is never safe and free from influence to independantly process their thoughts. Trauma memories often return in safe environments, so ensuring that environment is never reached maintains the amnesiac barrier.
Increasing, disrupting or confusing the emotional intensity and charge of trauma memories and associated memory categories may also serve in making memories (or memory categories) harder to reach. Preying on specifically painful, degrading and cruel acts, and acts with deep personal significance, can make the torture more extreme, and potentially make it harder to integrate the memories of the damage.
Memory categories may be: all trauma memories, repeat rape from a particular person, a repeat form of torture, abuse over a particular period or in a particular place. An abuser may seek to disrupt and damage access to an enitre category, such as through deterents. So even when a person is safe from a past threat, a new association could be made using a current threat, making the past abuse harder to access.
Relational memory may be intentionally disrupted; environmental triggers may be extracted from particular places where an abuse happened and either carefully reintroduced so as to disrupt natural memory emergence via this trigger (concealing the memory pathway further from the victim) or to manipulate or influence a persons behaviour, like pavlovian conditioning cues.
Equally, trauma events could be intentionally set up in ways which are difficult to process in a coherent fashion - preying on the way which trauma memories are stored, this methodology intentionally exacerbates incohension. The use of blindfolds, changing locations, changing clothing, using trusted figures, lying about the time of day. Forcing someone in to a new location in a blindfold for abuse would do this.
This can be further enhanced through trauma bonding, which creates a form of 'double-think'.
The use of red herrings and false flags, smoke and mirrors, further psyops or disorientation tactics, could additionally be used to conceal abuses. Distractions, or even decoy traumas and events, aimed at concealing or confusing the victim and onlookers further from a violation. Decoy traumas or shocking distractions could be set up to deflect the emotional charge of an abuse on to a newly emerging situation, further disrupting memory access in the victim to the primary trauma event you are seeking to conceal.
A further manipulative and disruptive element may be reverse associations, the encouragement of cognitive dissonance. To train a person to regularly receive repeat rape and torture, extreme trauma, you might seek to undermine their pain and gaslight them further, force them to deny the reality of their suffering.
Take the continual pairing of abuse with healthy, normal, natural, even 'empowering' actions. So, the goal is to disguise the natural association in the victims mind between rape & violation in its true form - disgusting, disempowering, harmful, cruel and wrong - and implant a new meaning - normal, just a part of daily life, good for me. So, torturing me in relation to a positive action, like before achieve a goal, would be a disturbing opportunity to invent double-think. This helps disorient a victims capacity to fight for freedom and what is right.
A similar method could be literal punishments just for expressing natural responses to being abused, like crying. You are no longer even allowed to feel and know the truth.
Because rape and torture just becomes normal, escape is not only impossible, but now the will to escape is being attacked, because 'it wasn't that bad really', 'it's good for you', 'you deserved it', 'we're helping you'. Reality bending becomes the perpetrators goal to destroy even inner resistance and self worth.
A further method is simple deterrents, more punishment. By remembering, accepting or speaking about being raped, you'll get tortured further. You could be called a liar, gaslit, abused and, if you remembered too much that might expose operations, you could even be killed.
I perceive that both Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning employed alongside the engineering, through methodically applied torture, of the trauma response dissociation and our developing awareness of how memory is stored and processed can be harnessed to create manipulable memory control.
I believe many of the above behavioural tactics have been employed upon myself in a variety of ways to enable the mass rape, torture and exploitation of me.
Thankfully, dissociative amnesia is not real amnesia, in the neurological sense, but psychological. Dissociated memories are fully recognised and stored by the mind, but they are not readily accessible by the conscious attention with as much ease as other non-threatening, non-traumatic, memories. Though, they do heavily influence the being, perhaps more heavily than undissociated memories, as the thinking mind cannot bring them in to conscious view to unpack, process, integrate reflect upon, analyse and accept.
They are repressed. The block therefore is psychological and overcomable, though, sophisticated perpetrators may seek to make this block even more challenging to override with refinely applied systematic violence and torture, it can still be done.
It is a matter fragmented attention, meaning the traumatic abuse cannot be brought in to focus, though exists in full in the mind. meaning this form of memory control can be overcome with the psyche.
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