Sharing Their Demons on the Web By SARAH KERSHAW November 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Sharing their demons on the web
Vaughan Bell, a British psychologist who has researched the effect of the Internet on mental illness, first began tracking sites with reports of mind control in 2004. In 2006 he published a study The extent of the community, Dr. Bell said, poses a paradox to the traditional way delusion is defined under the diagnostic guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, which says that if a belief is held by a person's "culture or subculture," it is not a delusion. Dr. Bell, whose study was published in the journal Psychopathology, said that it does not suggest all people participating in mind-control sites are delusional, and that a firm diagnosis of psychosis could only be done in person.
And the users of some sites have found the support of Jim Guest, a Republican state representative in Missouri, who wrote last year to his fellow legislators calling for an investigation into the claims of those who say they are being tortured by mind control. "I've had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons," Mr. Guest said in a telephone interview, adding that nothing came of his request for a legislative investigation. "They become psychologically affected by it. They have trouble sleeping at night." He added: "I believe there are people who have been targeted by this. With this equipment, you have to test it on somebody to see if it works."
The mind-control sites remind some experts of the accounts of those claiming to have been abducted by aliens in the 1970s and '80s. One person's story begat another until many insisted they had had virtually identical experiences of being taken onto space ships by silvery sloe-eyed creatures. Some of those now posting on mind-control sites say they are being remotely "sexually stimulated" by their torturers. Some alien abductees had said similar things. Subsequent research generally showed that those who believed they had been abducted were not psychotic, but suffering from severe memory and sleep problems, or personal traumas, Dr. Bell said.
Mind control not a farce, claim people across Canada
Paul Walton, The Daily NewsPublished: Thursday, November 13, 2008
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=2df621ca-4fe9-4a21-bfe1-ec04a0e26ae7
Issue of thought control in court stirs strong response. For most people the idea that brain computer interface technology is influencing our thoughts is nothing less than fantastical science fiction. But such claims made in court by a Nanaimo man, Jerry Rose, appear to be widespread
B.C. judge hears $2B lawsuit against Microsoft, Wal-Mart over brain control
Paul Walton , Canwest News ServicePublished: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=952316
NANAIMO, B.C. - A judge has refused to dismiss a "bizarre" civil suit brought by a Nanaimo man, who is seeking $2 billion in damages from Microsoft, Telus, Wal-Mart, the RCMP and other defendants over alleged brain-wave control, satanic rituals and witchcraft.
http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/08/06/dr-keith-is-your-life-like-a-reality-tv-show/