Understanding the Pow Experience: Stress Research and the Implementation of the 1955 U.S. Armed Forces Code of Conduct

Genter, Robert

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“…These were disturbing claims in this intensely anti-communist zeitgeist (Morgan, 2003), even if Lifton (1961), Biderman (1959), and later scholars (e.g. Genter, 2015; Robin, 2001; Young, 2014) reported that few if any POWs remained communists after repatriation. Additionally, experiences with POWs led to unsettling experiences for clinicians.…”

Section: Psychology Of Interrogation and Confessionmentioning

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Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide

Woody

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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This article traces the career arc of Dutch psychoanalyst Joost A. M. Meerloo by examining his biography and his psychology of interrogation and confession. His life story, particularly his experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands and his escape to England during World War II, shaped his views on these issues, as well as his rise to prominence as an expert on these topics in the United States. His psychoanalytic perspectives on interrogation and confession, including false confession, reflected the zeitgeist of the First Wave of Cold War interrogation tactics and related scholarship. His career as a scholar of interrogation faded with the study of distinct interrogation tactics used by communists during the Korean War, the emergence of experimental social psychology, and a growing cohort of scholars who rejected his psychoanalytic views in favor of more contemporary approaches. For these reasons, his work remains undervalued, increasing the risks that today’s scholars will fail to recognize his larger contributions and his warnings about vulnerability and psychologists’ roles in military interrogations. The article reviews the rise and fall of the career of Joost A. M. Meerloo as a scholar of Cold War interrogation, including his contributions and his unheeded warnings about vulnerability and psychologists’ roles in military interrogations.

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Section: Psychology Of Interrogation and Confessionmentioning

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Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide

Woody

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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“…42 Unable to confirm or dismiss the story, Western journalists pondered the possibilities of brainwashing and behavioural modification. 43 At the height of the Cold War, anything was possible and when 21 American servicemen and one member of the Royal Marines refused repatriation at the end of the war, all the bizarre theories seemed true. 44 As rumours swirled, British authorities established the Repatriated Prisoner of War Interrogation Unit (RPWIU).…”

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‘Hard, primitive and below the belt’: The Korean War, Prisoners of War, and Training for Conduct After Capture

Fitzpatrick¹

2019

War in History

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This article looks at what impact the Korean War (1950–53) had on British policy regarding how soldiers should behave if captured by the enemy. It explores the training available to the average serviceman between the First World War and the early 1950s and examines how fears of brainwashing prompted the first major investigation of prisoner behaviour and training in modern British history. Using primary sources, the article also traces how the war contributed to a philosophical shift in attitudes towards the prisoner of war and a reassessment of the skills necessary to survive on the modern battlefield.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment's Torture Hermeneutics: Difference and Morality in the US University, 1968 to 9/11

Bouchard¹

2017

J. Am. Stud.

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Beginning with Talal Asad's (2007) claim that torture is a hermeneutic, this article investigates the ongoing relationship between torture and the US university's primary ways of making meaning about racialized difference. The Stanford prison experiment is routinely referenced as a seminal study revealing why people engage in torture. Through a close reading of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, the major account of the SPE, I raise concerns about how torture is used to enable moral development and to promote an understanding of difference as a “problem” to be managed by institutionalized diversity projects.

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Understanding the Pow Experience: Stress Research and the Implementation of the 1955 U.S. Armed Forces Code of Conduct

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide

Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide

‘Hard, primitive and below the belt’: The Korean War, Prisoners of War, and Training for Conduct After Capture

The Stanford Prison Experiment's Torture Hermeneutics: Difference and Morality in the US University, 1968 to 9/11

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