Funder, Anna. Stasiland: Stories from
Behind the Berlin Wall. London: Granta Books, 2004. Print.
I later
found instructions to operatives on ways of crippling ‘oppositional’ people… It
comes from the Directive 'Perceptions' ('Richtlinien,
Stichpunkt Wahrnehmung'). It aims:
To develop apathy
(in the subject)...to achieve a situation in which his conflicts, whether of a social, personal, career,
health or political kind are
irresolvable…to give rise to fears in him.....to develop/create disappointments.....to restrict his talents or capabilities.....to reduce his capacity to act
and.....to harness dissentions and contradictions around him for that
purpose....
On 18 January 1989—long before anyone could foresee the October demonstrations of that
year—the state issued a further refined Directive called '
[the] targetted
spreading of rumours about particular
persons with the aid of anonymous and pseudo-anonymous letters…making compromising situations for them by creating
confusion over the facts ... [and] the engendering
of hysterical and depressive
behaviours in the target person.
Youtube: Anna Funder on fear and conservatism in government
Compare the Stasi's instruction,"Perception" to Seligman's psychological theory,"Learned Helplessness." You will find significant similarities between these two concepts. This is an evidence that psychological studies are abused in power crimes.
ReplyDeleteシュタージ（集団ストーカー）実行犯たちに出されていた「認識」と呼ばれる指令文書とセリグマンの「学習性無力感」を比較すると、心理学が権力犯罪に悪用されていることがおわかりいただけるだろう。
"Learned Helplessness"「学習性無力感」
Learned Helplessness has also been related to certain forms of depression (Seligman, 1975). People who suffer a series of uncontrollable aversive events – loss of a job, pysically illness, divorce, and so on – may become extremely passive and despondent. Like animals exposed to inescapable shock, they show little interest in improving their lot in life (366).
Russell A. Powell, et al. Introduction to Learning and Behavior, 3rd Edition. 2009