Excerpts from The Psychology of Torture, by Dr. Sam Vaknin: Torture robs the victim of the most basic modes of relating to reality and, thus, is the equivalent of cognitive death. Space and time are warped by sleep deprivation. The self ("I") is shattered. The tortured have nothing familiar to hold on to: family, home, personal belongings, loved ones, language, name. Gradually, they lose their mental resilience and sense of freedom. They feel alien – unable to communicate, relate, attach, or empathize with others. Torture is the ultimate act of perverted intimacy. The torturer invades the victim's body, pervades his psyche, and possesses his mind. Deprived of contact with others and starved for human interactions, the prey bonds with the predator. "Traumatic bonding", akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, is about hope and the search for meaning in the brutal and indifferent and nightmarish universe of the torture cell. In a nutshell, torture victims suffer from a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Their strong feelings of anxiety, guilt, and shame are also typical of victims of childhood abuse, domestic violence, and rape. They feel anxious because the perpetrator's behavior is seemingly arbitrary and unpredictable – or mechanically and inhumanly regular. see or purchase the book: http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html ----------------------------------A note on Institutional Complicity in Gang Stalking and Mind Control: Psychiatry is directly involved in these campaigns, as psychiatrists do not recognise the symptoms of mind control weapons, and in a clinical setting, they are under instructions to regard complaints of organized harassment as symptoms of psychosis. Some psychiatrists, and the institutions they work for engage in directed psychological abuse and harassment of targeted individuals. The victims (targets) are usually denied any effort at legal recourse for people close to them are carefully influenced by the intelligence amp; criminal enterprise that targets them. ------------------------------------------------------ Psychiatrists are used in researching the methods used for the psychological assaults on the selected targets. They work close with the intelligence community in these operations. Psychological profiles, along with an near all inclusive study of the targets history, character, development, personal and family relations, collect the data used to taylor the psychological harassment and violence 100% for the particular individual. These assaults are psychiatric based.