Division 19 (of the APA—the Society for Military Psychology) sounds like a clandestine program out of dystopian fiction, but by the time I learned about it I had already survived years of deadly operative psychology designed to deprive people of every meaningful reason to survive.
The Brookline Principles and the Hoffman Report are not something out of a horror movie, they are clear evidence of a lineage of operational psychology with a lineage that reaches through Guantanamo and Abu Graib back into the dark history of the field of military-intelligence psychology, into the known paralell tactics of zersetzung in Cold War Easy Germany (the GDR), where state assassinations are known to have included thousands of forced suicides resulting from the covert practice of what translates to “corrosion, attrition, or biodegredation from within”—an eerie parallel for the phenomenon of hair turning white at the impact of a mortifying psychological trauma.
And this was just one of many stages of terror and stress designed to deprive me of banjos, religion, forests, and poetry.
There are no survivors of programs that do not exist.
Of note: I may have relatively contemporary photos showing the sudden change, which occured overnight, although it was not a priority of mine to document it at the time. It simply added to my feeling of being subjected to degrading punishment for my beliefs while feeling at a loss for a medical parallel, as all available treatments for PTSD were already being locally weaponized as a factor of psychosocial degredation.
One might rightly wonder how this distinct field of psychology is being “applied” or why it chose such a unilateral name for its field of expertise. Psychology as a field of medicine is often applied, but military psychology as a field of medicine might raise reasonable concern when it characterizes itself instead as “applied psychology.”
Update: A future article will explore the relationship between weaponized social isolation and sociocybernetic abuse, neurolinguistics, and double bind theory in relation to philosophy of language, semiotics, and mind.
