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Are there any good books on the concept of slowly turning someone insane through small and seemingly innocuous things over a very long and constant period of time? It's the Stasi concept of Zersetzung, basically, but i cannot find much written about its procedures.

>> No.21415383

>>21415365
Anon, if you think security services are targeting you and trying to make you mad, you are quite possibly a schizophrenic. You are most likely not a valuable target for any sort of operation, but you may be afflicted by a very common disease of the mind.
Please tell me you have considered that.

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>>21415383
No not at all, i'm more looking into how to apply such techniques myself.

>> No.21415429

>>21415390
Ok. In any case, the most authoritative book in English about the Stasi is "Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police" by John Koehler. I don't recall reading anything about this sort of operation in there (probably because it sounds like a big waste of resources and hardly adequate to their internal procedures), but you could check his sources to see if you can find anything.

>> No.21415433

>>21415365
telltale heart

>> No.21415436

>>21415365
Yes, Stasiland.

>> No.21415444

>>21415429
>hardly adequate to their internal procedures
The point was in plausible deniability. Honecker wanted to clean up the GDR's public image, so a lot of the over terror had to become more covert and subtle.

>> No.21415474

>>21415365
You mean gaslighting?

>> No.21415487

>>21415474
Gaslighting is related to it, but this is more expansive than just that
Also i really hate the word gaslighting nowadays

>> No.21415520

>>21415487
Gaslighting now just means disagreeing with someone.
You might like The Twits

>> No.21415614

Hey Anons

Do you suggest any specific book order to read his work?

>> No.21415619

>>21415474
>>21415487
>>21415520
Offgassing

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I, too, get spuriously tested, and I seriously detest it, but [cleanitude] + [magnitude] = magnanimity.


>>21415365


It is the result of neither coming to terms with things, nor getting used to them; the key is to come to terms with things without necessarily getting used to them —with the gradual overcoming that this may imply & entail.


Watch: "Magic, Magic" (2013).

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>>21415365
Why do i feel like you're planning something criminal?

>> No.21415875

>>21415474
>>21415487
>>21415520
The phrase "gaslighting" literally comes from a play.

>> No.21415894

>>21415365
Les Enfants terribles, maybe. They definitely get crazier and crazier.

>> No.21415907

>>21415875
I know, but it's been overused. It's fucking stupid.

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>>21415365
Be careful, it might backfire on you

>> No.21417380

>>21415861
Meds