Mind Control (Open forum)

This is a shocking account of all the methods being developed - and used - to control not only what we do but how we think and feel. This book reveals the ways in which lives - particularly those of the young, elderly, the institutionalized and the underprivileged - are controlled by such means as information collection, electronic surveillance, behavior modification and drugs. Schrag argues that a subtle, barely perceptible transformation has occurred in the relationship between the citizen, his employer, his doctor and the state: new technologies have made it possible to intervene in private lives as never before. He says: 'At the heart of the change lies a transcendent faith that with the proper environment or the proper methods, any individual can be reshaped, reformed, or at the very least, controlled with psychological or chemical method."