EDITORIAL NOTE
This book is a synthesis of information gathered
through observation, discussion, investigation and experience
over the last ten years.
I cannot entirely vouch for its authenticity. Disclosure of the
sources from which it is drawn would undoubtedly lead to great
difficulties for them. And in matters of this kind the Soviet
is not accustomed to the issuance of validations.
Having compiled this volume I did not easily discover any method
of distributing it since my own facilities and finances are, as
is customary with professors, necessarily limited.
Further, the placement of this volume in anyone's hands constituted
to some degree a considerable risk to myself until I realized
that there actually were two American groups in the field of mental
science who were entirely above suspicion, particularly since
they were often mentioned as Soviet targets by my informers and
were mentioned in the actual text of this book as being antipathetic
to this Soviet programme. These two groups were the Christian
Scientists and the Dianeticists. Christian Science is an American
Religion, intensely patriotic. Dianetics is the only entirely
American development in the field of the human mind.
Knowing from my information sources that Dianetics and Christian
Science and their people have experienced years of mauling and
defamation at Communist hands, I am submitting to these organizations
this work. I wish to express here my appreciation for their bold
resistance to Communism through the years.
I wish also to express my confidence in the future of the free
nations of earth. Although the soviet has found a chink in the
armour of individual liberty, it is certain that Democratic processes
can mend it. That only the individual himself can protest against
assault and injury to him before law, joined with the fact that
the insane have no rights before law, has permitted in itself
this deep ingress into our country's security. So long as this
legal hole exists, there is then no law against driving anyone
insane, even though this action deals as finally with a person
as does murder. The existence today of highly efficient drugs
such as LSD, one-millionth of an ounce of which can create insanity,
brings this legal loophole into focus. By enacting legislation
permitting a friend or next of kin to bring charges in case of
assault, and by quickly placing all treatment of and
institutions for the insane in the hands of ministers, taking
it entirely out of the hands of
European indoctrinated practitioners, the entire effort of psychopolitics
can be nullified at
once. If you care to check this subject of psychopolitics against
current occurrences in the
American scene you will discover the urgency of such measures.
Charles Stickley
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An Address by Beria - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
CHAPTER I: The History and Definition of Psychopolitics - - -
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CHAPTER II: The Constitution of Man as a Political Organism -
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CHAPTER III: Man as an Economic Organism - - - - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER IV: State Goals for the Individual and Masses - - - -
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CHAPTER V: An Examination of Loyalties - - - - - - - - - - - 19
CHAPTER VI: The General Subject of Obedience - - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER VII: Anatomy of Stimulus-Responce Mechanisms of Man -
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CHAPTER VIII: Degradation, Shock and Endurance - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER IX: The Organization of Mental Health Campaigns - - -
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CHAPTER X: Conduct Under Fire - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER XI: The Use of Psychopolitics in Spreading Communism -
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CHAPTER XII: Violent Remedies - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER XIII: Recruiting of Psychopolitical Dupes - - - - - -
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CHAPTER XIV: The Smashing of Religious Groups - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER XV: Proposals Which Must Be Avoided - - - - - - - - -
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CHAPTER XVI: In Summary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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