Also relevant, “The CIA’s Secret History of Psychological Torture.” https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/ https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/ > Canadian

Also relevant, “The CIA’s Secret History of Psychological Torture.” https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/ https://www.salon.com/2009/06/11/mccoy/ > Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to drug-induced hallucinations and psychosis in just 48 hours -- without drugs, hypnosis or electric shock. Instead, for two days student volunteers at McGill University simply sat in a comfortable cubicle deprived of sensory stimulation by goggles, gloves and earmuffs. "It scared the hell out of us," Hebb said later, "to see how completely dependent the mind is on a close connection with the ordinary sensory environment, and how disorganizing to be cut off from that support." >During the 1950s, two neurologists at Cornell Medical Center, under CIA contract, found that the most devastating torture technique of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, was simply to force a victim to stand for days while the legs swelled, the skin erupted in suppurating lesions, and hallucinations began -- a procedure which we now politely refer to as "stress positions."