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Other drugs that have produced experimental schizophrenia -- mescaline, harmaline, LSD6 -- are backbrain stimulants. In schizo- phrenia the backbrain is alternately stimulated and depressed. Catatonia is often followed by a period of excitement and motor activity during which the nut rushes through the wards giving everyone a bad time. Deteriorated schizos sometimes refuse to move at all and spend their lives in bed. A disturbance of the regu- latory function of the hypothalamus is indicated as the 'cause' (causal thinking never yields accurate description of metabolic process -- limitations of existing language) of schizophrenia. Alternate doses of LSD6 and bulbo- capnine -- the bulbocapnine potientiated with curare -- give the highest yield of automatic obedience. "There are other procedures. The subject can be re- duced to deep depression by administering large doses of benzedrine for several days. Psychosis can be induced by continual large doses of cocaine or demerol or by the abrupt withdrawal of barbiturates after prolonged ad- ministration. He can be addicted by dihydro-oxy-heroin and subjected to withdrawal (this compound should be five times as addicting as heroin, and the withdrawal proportionately severe ). "There are various 'psychological methods,' compul- sory psychoanalysis, for example. The subject is re- quested to free-associate for one hour every day (in cases where time is not of the essence). 'Now, now. Let's not be negative, boy. Poppa call nasty man. Take baby walkabout switchboard.' "The case of a female agent who forgot her real iden- tity and merged with her cover story -- she is still a fricoteuse in Annexia -- put me onto another gimmick. An agent is trained to deny his agent identity by asserting his cover story. So why not use psychic jiu-jitsu and go along with him? Suggest that his cover story is his iden- tity and that he has no other. His agent identity becomes unconscious, that is, out of his control; and you can dig it with drugs and hypnosis. You can make a square heterosexual citizen queer with this angle... that is, rein- force and second his rejection of normally latent homo- sexual trends -- at the same time depriving him of cunt and subjecting him to homosexual stimulation. Then drugs, hypnosis, and --" Benway flipped a limp wrist. "Many subjects are vulnerable to sexual humiliation. Nakedness, stimulation with aphrodisiacs, constant su- pervision to embarrass subject and prevent relief of mas- turbation (erections during sleep automatically turn on an enormous vibrating electric buzzer that throws the subject out of bed into cold water, thus reducing the incidence of wet dreams to a minimum). |
