Is Pointsman based on Dr. William Sargant?

[Mark Kohut]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's "Mad Dog' Bertie on receiving Dr. Sargant's book.
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> https://books.google.com/books?id=eogqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA394&dq=Dr.+William+Sargant&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLwauvwIHNAhUIcz4KHReHC_MQ6AEIUTAK#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20William%20Sargant&f=false
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> Here's another perspective:
> Amputated Souls: The Psychiatric Assault on Liberty 1935-2011
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=E6G7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&dq=%22Dr.+William+Sargant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXosLxwYHNAhWrzIMKHRO0ANMQ6AEILjAD>
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> <https://books.google.com/books?id=E6G7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&dq=%22Dr.+William+Sargant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXosLxwYHNAhWrzIMKHRO0ANMQ6wEILzAD>
> https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1845404521
> Anthony James
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> 2012 - ‎Preview
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=E6G7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT107&dq=%22Dr.+William+Sargant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXosLxwYHNAhWrzIMKHRO0ANMQuwUIMTAD> -
> ‎More editions
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> ... the mad psychiatrist Dr William Sargant (he took a third of the
> proceeds, Sargant two-thirds) ' It is the career of William Sargant
> (1907–1988) that we must examine in the last part of this section A superb
> radio documentary on Sargant called ...
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> wikipedia and how Graves was involved & "There were a number of  deaths":
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant
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> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._R._Rivers#The_Great_War
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>> Very interesting. Again, Robert Graves turns up (along with Siegfried
>> Sassoon).
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>> As opposed to Rivers, Sargant detested psychotherapy. The full title of
>> his autobiography is "The unquiet mind: the autobiography of a physician in
>> psychological medicine." A physician. One article cited by Wiki is
>> "Psychiatric treatment in general teaching hospitals: A plea for a
>> mechanistic approach."
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>> Wiki also provides:
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>> "Sargant connected Pavlov's findings to the ways people learned and
>> internalised belief systems. Conditioned behaviour patterns could be
>> changed by stimulated stresses beyond a dog's capacity for response, in
>> essence causing a breakdown. This could also be caused by intense signals,
>> longer than normal waiting periods, rotating positive and negative signals
>> and changing a dog’s physical condition, as through illness. Depending on
>> the dog's initial personality, this could possibly cause a new belief
>> system to be held tenaciously. Sargant also connected Pavlov’s findings to
>> the mechanisms of brain-washing in religion and politics."
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>> Internalise belief systems, i.e. put the control inside...
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>> All of this helps to answer an earlier question of mine:
>> Pointsman's/Sargant's abreaction is not Jung's abreaction.
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>> The verb linked to "abreaction" or "Abreaktion" has, by the way, entered
>> German everyday language: "abreagieren" means "to let off steam".
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>> We may, perhaps, see a renaissance of the mechanistic approach in
>> so-called evidence-based medicine or education -- although there is of
>> course nothing wrong with evidence per se...
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>> http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2013/mar/26/teachers-research-evidence-based-education
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