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As they explored these techniques, Rees realized the more effective maverick approach involved the role of social factors in psychological illness.

In other words, individual brainwashing tactics, such as electroshock therapy or the use of drugs, though powerful, were no match for the power of the group in enforcing behavior.

So Rees and his partners explored cognitive dissonance and group dynamics.

They adopted the object-relations approach of Melanie Klein, which emphasized relationships, rather than Adler’s Power, Freud’s Sex, instinctual ego drives and psychic energy. [5]

Their idea was to re-create the family dynamic, a dynamic of peer pressure, in group therapy, T-groups, where predetermined objectives were subtly forced onto the group through consensus, or democracy, in the language of these social engineers.

The idea was by using peer pressure to attack someone’s sovereign identity in the group, that individual would forfeit his or her sovereignty to the group and become suggestible to predetermined objectives.

This is what happened when Iron Lady Maggie Thatcher declined to join the EU group, was pushed out and replaced by a high school dropout named John Major.

Tavistock techniques were so effective the British empire eventually entrusted important guinea pigs to Tavistock. Tavistock became responsible for selecting officers of the British Army.

The British government allowed Tavistock to craft training programs for those officers. Tavistock took their group brainwashing techniques onto the battlefield, calling the practice Command Psychiatry. Field clinicians were described by Rees as psychiatric shock troops.

The group who entered the Directorate of Army Psychiatry took a novel approach to the human resource problems facing the army. Rather than remain in base hospitals, they went out into the field to find out from commanding officers what they saw as their most pressing problems…. The concept thence arose of command psychiatry, in which a psychiatrist with a roving commission was attached to each of the five Army Commanders in Home Forces.[6]

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