Summary Of 'The Torture Lab: Regression Or Torture?'

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The Torture Lab: Regression or Torture? Naomi Klein in the chapter, The Torture Lab discusses the effect of shock therapy in humans and the economy. Klein looks further into the effects of psychiatric shock therapy and experiments conducted on people without their consent. Cameron’s theory was that shocking his patients would bring them into a blank state where everything before was wiped away. By the late 1940s, electroshock was becoming increasingly popular among psychiatrists in Europe and North America (31). Ewan Cameron was a psychiatrist that administered electroshock, these shocks were used to restructure the mind to bring it back to a state of emptiness. Cameron envisioned his acts of destruction as creation, a gift to his fortunate