Biderman & Zimmer The Manipulation of Human Behavior now online
September 9th, 2007
I have been alerted by Valtin that the 1961 classic research work underlying US psychological torture techniques, The Manipulation of Human Behavior edited by Albert D. Biderman and Herbert Zimmer, is now available online. Go to http://www.4shared.com/file/23563708/e49bcadf/mohb.html and search for the “Download file” link [which is on the Comments line]. You get an html version in your web browser. You can then Select All and paste into a word processor like MS Word or Open Office Write.
To understand the importance, and disturbing quality, of this work, read Valtin’s September 16, 2006 diary: Frankenstein’s Children: Modern Torture’s Scientific Bible.
The question for many of us is whether the CIA has been busily updating this work through the research it has been conducting into psychological torture at Guantanamo and the Black Sites. Perhaps Mitchell and Jessen are working on the new manual right now.
Entry Filed under: APA, Guantanamo, Interrogation, Psychological Torture, Psychology, SERE, Torture
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1. Valtin | September 9th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Thanks, Stephen, for helping publicize this.
I’d suggest just saving the html in your browser itself. It will save as an html file to your hard drive and can be easily read in your browser whenever you want, and one doesn’t have to worry about massaging format.
Anyway, my 2 cents re saving this particular work.
Meanwhile, I hope readers will pursue the Scott Horton article you’ve blogged on. This is a very important story.
With so much hope placed in the Senate hearings, the near future of the torture fight, including in APA, hangs on the outcome of this political battle.
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