The Western Round Table on Modern Art (1949) featured artists and thinkers (all men) including Marcel Duchamp, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the composers Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schoenburg, and the anthropologist Gregory Bateson spea…When Bateson wrote his report calling for the establishment of CIA and the pursuit of “indirect methods of warfare”, the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, OSS ‘black propaganda’ work in the South Pacific, and the Truth Drug and hypnosis exp…
Milton H. Erickson
psychoanalyst · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Milton H. Erickson appears here primarily as a hypnotherapist and experimental subject in mid-century U.S. military-intelligence research on mind control and influence operations. His involvement in CIA-backed experiments on hypnosis and the "truth drug" (likely involving LSD or similar compounds) positions him as a figure whose clinical techniques were weaponized for psychological warfare and interrogation during the Cold War. The excerpt suggests Bateson and Mead's intellectual networks were entangled with these covert programs, making Erickson a crucial node in understanding how therapeutic knowledge became an instrument of state power in the era that gave rise to cybernetics and systems theory.
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