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Bluebird : Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Psychiatrists

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Dr. Ross' book is a very interesting work. Ross is one of the
nation's experts on Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and has been
one of the few to speak out about the controversial subject of CIA
mind control experiments and their relation to the intentional
creation of MPD (now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, or
DID)..... In this book, he constructs a solid documentary record, not
only of the existence of those CIA projects from the 1940's through at
least the 1970's, if not even through the present, but of the
connections between the CIA funding and various persons in medicine
and academia, and he makes quietly understated, but, again, solid,
conclusions about the nature, purpose, and morality of these
experiments. In short, he "proves that there was extensive
political abuse of psychiatry ... by leading psychiatrists,
psychologists, pharmacologists, neurosurgeons and medical
schools." In this respect, Dr. Ross' book is phenomenal. What I
find disturbing, however, is Ross' rationalization of the CIA's
funding of these projects. He says that "the CIA is not governed
by the Hippocratic Oath," (what about the Constitution?) and that
the creation of "Manchurian Candidates," (mind controlled
spies and assassins) which was at the root of the CIA projects in
question, is "easy to understand and justify from a National
Security perspective." While he adds that his book is not
intended to be about the CIA, the military or the government,
it is hard
to understand how Ross can look such experimentation in the face, see it
for what it is -- unethical, immoral, and criminal -- and yet fail to
consider the organization behind those experiments in any way culpable.

On the other hand, his deflection of responsibility onto the medical
profession is quite brilliant, because it takes the heat off the Big
Bad Wolf and puts it on the sheep. It may well succeed in finally
forcing this too-long buried issue out into the open, where the public
can finally view and judge what its country has done, and pass
appropriate laws to stop it from ever happening again. There may
never be a full accounting of individuals and agencies involved in the
mind control experiments -- which are known to have injured thousands,
and possibly even killed many (not to mention repeated violation of
the basic human right of consent) -- but one hopes that Dr. Ross' book
will be the first step towards some level of substantial and
meaningful public review.

Land of the free, and home of the brave? After this last election, do you still think we live in a Democracy where government is run with the consent of the governed? Read this book and you will see just how far back Amerikan fascism's roots are seeded. As touched on in my review of the book Acid Dreams, Colin Ross goes deeper and into the legitimate documentation of experiments by doctors, via Paperclip and other organizational efforts, to create mind controlled Manchurian candidates in this country. Just taking a cursory walk through history in the past 30 years will show you how much things have changed. We wonder why. Just the way things are? Overpopulation? Why is it that we have mass murderers in the high schools in our midst? Ross does not allude to these incidences, but he does take a good hard look at Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan and Mark David Chapman utilizing FOIA documentation that certainly makes *me* take a good look at the ongoing insanity in our current day. These things did and do continue to happen. Riveting is the history of Linda MacDonald, a "patient" of Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allain Memorial Institute in Canada, whose mind was entirely wiped out by LSD and electroshock and then re-wired with taped loops run under her pillow over and over and over as she "slept." She emerged an emotional "infant," who had to invent all over again who she was. This was his "treatment" for what we know today as post-partum depression. You can learn more about this case in the Mind Control video available through the History channel. Ewen Cameron, by the way, was the psychiatrist that "counseled" the Nazi prisoners at the Nuremburg trials. His work was not limited to Canada, either. How nice for him, that he was able to make his "career" on the backs of unwitting human guinea pigs!

Ross has an entire diagram of the MK-ULTRA projects and sub-projects, where they were, who ran them and where the funding came from. What an eye opener that is! There are buildings in my town named after Estabrooks and Hoaglund, "doctors" who were instrumental in the mind control projects pointed out by Dr. Ross. I become more cynical, and less naive, every day.

Colin Ross, M.D., a well-established psychiatrist and researcher in the field of dissociative disorders, has put together a collection of evidence showing how psychiatry has been hijacked by government military and mind control agendas. This book is primarily just a review of government programs and documents, providing irrefutable evidence of how psychiatric professionals worked with government sponsored programs to fragment people's minds, using a variety of techniques, such as drugs, torture, electronics and electroshock, hypnosis, food & sleep deprivation, and sensory deprivation. This information is not pleasant or entertaining to read unless one happens to be a sadist. However, it is useful for clinicians and patients to have an understanding of how dissociation has been deliberately created, providing insights into how the resulting conditions may be effectively healed. This book would also be of interest to historical researchers, especially those who seek to examine covert agendas and conspiratorial activity. Ross specifically states that this book is not about any conspiracy theory or critique of government agencies and their motives, while he does express his intent to expose psychiatric professionals involved in mind control for their breach of professional oaths and ethics. This aspect of the text is somewhat disappointing, as Ross defends the CIA and other government operations for their exploration of mind control to serve national "security" and "defense" interests. If psychiatrists are acting in a contemptible manner by abusing their clients and manipulating patients' minds against their will, then why should CIA or military personnel be excused for pursuing those agendas just because they don't have a professional guideline opposed to such activities? Only through coercion and deceit can the government carry out the mind control research and applications, which would mean that in order to supposedly "fight to protect American freedom and values" the government itself must flout those freedoms and values. I am under the impression that Colin Ross has become less forgiving of government motives and agendas subsequent to the publication of this book, but I encourage readers to consider this issue carefully when reading the comments in Bluebird about the motives and culpabilities related to mind control abuses. Otherwise, this was an excellent book, providing the information that the author set out to publicize in order to help expose psychiatric abuses and aid those seeking to heal MPD & DID.

This book is a complicated mixture of truth and deceptions, which appears to be designed to hide a crucial problem from the public by placing only a portion of it in plain view. I am a clinical psychologist. The truth in the material Dr. Ross presents is shocking and appalling: that our intelligence and military are systematically creating unwitting mind-controlled slaves using horrifying techniques to deliberately split personalities through the use of hideous trauma and other sophisticated tortures. Many of these techniques are shown in TV and movies, presented as fiction so we discount the possibility of their reality. This report also explains why treatments for mental illnesses which work are being systematically ignored in the mental health professions, a fact which has puzzled me for years. Other parts of the book mislead. For example, all the perpetrators named are conveniently dead: some mere months or weeks before publication. Another example: Dr. Ross states that satanic ritual abuse is not real. Staff of units specializing in Multiple Personality Disorder have told me that when the staff begins to take reports of satanic abuse from patients seriously, funding for the programs has been cut off. It is certainly true that most such units have been closed down, and those which survive are staffed by people who can maintain a studied "therapeutic neutrality". Of course, this lack of support for the validity of the patient's experiences is further traumatizing rather than healing. I will leave it to the reader to draw conclusions about this situation. I regret I consider it unwise to sign my name and full credentials.

From Project Paperclip and The Tuskegee Syphillis Study, to real life Manchurian Candidates, this book is a wealth of information. Just as interesting are the copies of actual government papers(in the back of this book) on the experiments done. I only wish that there could have been follow-up information on those poor children who were put through those horrible LSD/mind-control experiments. I wonder, what were the long-term effects of those experiments on those children? This book is a MUST READ!

That is the term for providing a portion of the truth to prevent the whole truth from coming out and that seems to be what this is. I don't know that Ross is doing this deliberately, but his worshipful attitude about the CIA was disturbing. The CIA is what keeps you from the "gulag"? What the hell did you think they did in Gulags...the exact same things described in this book. Only they don't speak Russian.

Also, I may be overly paranoid, given the nature of this material, but what the hell is that long series of letters and numbers on the first page? I thought perhaps it was some self-publishing tracking code, but it is right where the dedication would go. With all the talk of "codes" that trigger Manchurian Candidates, it was creepy.

If this book had an index it would be a lot more useful...lots of info but much of it simply thrown down in almost list format. Hard to follow at times.

This book is probably the most factually supported publication I have read. Nearly every paragraph is footnoted or referenced at least once.

Dr. Ross is extra careful to only state that which he has found through Freedom of Information Act searches. BUT, this is what makes this title hard to follow.

Dr. Ross firmly establishes the U. S. Government's participation is mind control experimentation a la "Manchurian Candidate" art.

If you need to convince yourself that the U. S. Government would sponsor unethical medical research, then this book is a MUST.

If you want to read a light summary of unethical activities of the government, THIS IS NOT the resource.

After reading this book, it occurs to me that MK-Ultra is the official state religion of the New World Order.

The opposing terminal of comparable magnitude appears to be [have been] Scientology, but MK-Ultra and modern projects by other names [i.e. government and military intelligence agencies] are far better funded at the moment.

The point is simple. If the technology to brainwash people *can* exist then it is certain that someone *will* research it. Those with the most funding will research it the fastest with the most favorable [control] results.

Government efforts to control alleged "terrorists" with the use of psychological "techniques" constitute a threat to the civil liberties of all and a common form of torture -- whenever and wherever it occurs.

Nothing that can be alleged about a victim of such torture excuses its criminality.

These activities are excused or rationalized by participants on the ground that "it is for the victims' own good" -- but to define what is for the good of another is never for that other's own good nor can it ever be anything less than a heinous violation of that other's full autonomy. Defenses based on "all that might be learned" from such efforts are equally unsatisfactory.

A human being is a locus of rights of a deontological, inalienable and inviolable sort. This is true even of Charles Manson, let alone any other normally flawed person. To believe otherwise, is to become like Manson. Any "therapist" who lends him- or herself to the reduction of a fellow human being to an object, a mere thing, an instrument of purposes not that human being's own, has betrayed all therapeutic ethics.

Any "therapist" willing to serve as a torturer for any reason, has abandoned his or her ethics.

Thomas Szasz writes: "... only when people withdraw their faith in mental health and mental illness will they see fit to curb the powers of psychiatry, just as only when they withdrew their blind faith in God and the Devil did they see fit to curb the powers of [priests]."

Join in the international struggle to end torture.

Oops. This bit of containment effort seems to have gone awry. Ross goes to great legths documenting mind control projects but stops short of calling out the CIA for their obviously criminal behavior. Odd. Why containment gone wrong, you ask? I think this was a limited hangout in which Ross revealed some critical information but not enough to fuel effective counter measures. Only problem is the "limited hangout" hung out a little too far and Ross reveals perhaps too much inside proof on the subject of mind control. Use this as a reference of mind control documents and don't forget this is but one piece of a much bigger puzzle.