Narcosynthesis [Silent] (Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital, 1944)

Under light narcosis produced by ultra-short-acting barbiturates, patients re-experience emotions associated with psychic trauma and become more amenable to suggestion. The four examples are: 1) the effect of simple suggestion in choreic movements; 2) the effect of reassurance and suggestion in hysteria with hemiporesis; 3) the production of emotional responsiveness in a schizophrenic-like state; and 4) a severe case of major hysteria in an 11-year-old girl.
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[@soft_serve_666]

I really hope the little girl towards the end turned out ok. Or at least got away from her father. 😢💔

[@dexdread]

my grandmother recieved this. she was never the same after her fathers rape says her sisters. she was a little kid at heart forever, loved tinkerbell. but she was a hypersexual person due to the trauma. and her symptoms of ptsd truly never went away, she was just mentally fried.

[@heide-raquelfuss5580]

😢

[@christine.m.b.2026]

😢😭

[@agnellaapolinario4291]

Sinto muito 😢

[@agnellaapolinario4291]

Sinto muito 😢

[@glitterfartsss]

"until the respond desired is obtained" that says it all.

[@bryanburnap4537]

Seriously !! After the injection that poor little girl isn't better ! She can't even sit up !!

[@feralbluee]

@@bryanburnap4537 that’s what the commenter is saying!!!!

[@dimastjohn203]

The brain is so sensitive to any type of abuse. This about the little girl maybe should be broadcast into every home.

[@northernzeus768]

That little girl was having seizures… I’m convinced of it.

[@XxXShevampXxX]

Holy crap, that needle was freaking massive! 😮

[@sherribrock1346]

That’s what I was thinking…good grief!

[@jenniechurch5337]

No sound...or just my phone???

[@carolynworthington8996]

@@jenniechurch5337. No sound, it says “silent” in the title.

[@angelmission]

That poor little girl was hard to watch.

[@bryanburnap4537]

Seriously!!

[@53mandevilla]

That poor little girl just traumatized by her drunken asshat father! Full of rage… anxiety’s through the roof is all.. Bless her heart..I hope she was put into a good home… omg… some people are just monsters! 😢😢😢

[@heide-raquelfuss5580]

😢

[@robertafierro5592]

Poor little girl

[@christine.m.b.2026]

😢😭💔

[@feralbluee]

These silent ones are very frustrating. What the hell are they saying - seems that would be important! These are so simplistic. What did the woman who could stand think of it. She looks so, so sad through the whole thing. Taking a film of her lying on the floor helpless, was just lovely! 😾 So glad the catatonic lady got so much better, but how long did it take, and what exactly was done to bring this about?

[@moviedog1]

Things still go on like this today, awful things with kids that is. in around 2006, 07, my wife and I lived on a foster home property. The foster home family would rent out homes on the property to help make ends meet. I recall two young girls who were abused. One lets say their names was Sara, the other Beth. Sara was a beautiful little girl age around 12 or so, bad with ages. Like I said Sara was really pretty. But her being so pretty was her down fall. Her father (piece of shit) would pimp her out. She had been with many of men before the age of 12. Beth was not sexually abused but almost just as bad. Her mother was a drug addict, so she lived with her grandmother. Her grandmother would give her time outs for when her grandmother decided Beth was bad. But not ordinarily times outs that was like 10 or 15 minutes. These time outs would be weeks in the corner, just as soon as got home from school she had to be in the corner until she went to bed. for weeks at a time. They were both so cute, they did not deserve to start out a life like that. But the only thing good that came out of this is father went to prison for years. He maybe out now I don't know. and grandmother got jail time also. I always wondered what happened to those girls, I hope they turned out all right. And my hope is the father got the shit kicked out of him while he was in prison. and I hope something bad happened to good ol grandmother too.

[@darlingnikki1353]

you're weird what the hell does looks have to do with child sexual predation. You must be part of the problem because it's OK if you think they're cute girls, but to voice that in this context is just weird.

[@roxannerodriguez7075]

The little girl looks so much like me when I was little. It's what drew me to this video. 😢

[@feralbluee]

11:47 ***Astasia abasia - inability to stand and walk due physical or psychogenic reasons. That poor little girl. She was suffering so much. I do hope she was able to recover sufficiently to live contentedly. My heart just wants to hug her and say it’ll be okay. . . 🌷🌱 I hope the child services of the time took that father away from her family. I don’t know what they did back then.

[@maryelinroca2759]

Poor girl I think she may have been having seizures… but idk if back than how aware they were of them…

[@loislynncameron9608]

They were. Convulsions is what they called them in the written blurb before it shows her.

[@heide-raquelfuss5580]

Could it be tetany? So sad, horrible. Poor girl.

[@loislynncameron9608]

@@heide-raquelfuss5580 It doesn't look like tetany to me. That is excruciating. I'm not sure it would respond to that drug either. Seizures would as would conversion disorders (at least in the short term).

[@cmmc3400]

This was relatively not so long ago and yet the common decency of putting under pants on that poor woman wasn't done. Shameful, not by her but those whom tend her care.

[@dexdread]

thought the same thing. also the strange willingness to shoot up a child's dress? the camera angle could have been ever so slightly changed and that little girls crotch would NOT have been shown without her consent

[@bethrogers5553]

The first man looked like he might have had Parkinson’s disease.

[@lauriediorio574]

Sometimes that is the side effects of medication.

[@avizmaldesigns3142]

Interesting that it's hard to find information about Sodium Thioethamyl on the internet

[@shimmer8289]

From the looks of things using a barbiturate for therapy on younger and older patients ie phenobarbital resulted in addition and as they aged brittle bones among other issues. I would say it was one of the first treatment methods that class being discovered Long ago and replaced with newer less toxic drugs. That little girl at the end looked high after first session.

[@EddieLeal]

2:42 That is one monster needle. 🤯

[@emilysbd]

I wonder how many of these practitioners truly meant well and were trying their best, and how many were purely sadistic. I would like to believe that it was not known how much harm they were causing.

[@christine.m.b.2026]

😢

[@shadrach6299]

I have a SIL whose bipolar symptoms are treated with electroshock treatments. It’s the only treatment that works for her. My BIL says it helps but she does have some memory loss. Today’s treatments are not like those used in the past. The use is very limited.

[@vivianmadden7313]

sad

[@TheOldnic]

I DISAGREE , I have done various jobs as a labourer, that requires legal standard "steel cap protection boots"! The middle person in the film , DON'T EVER DROP ANYONES TOES ONTO THE GROUND that F***K***G CARELESS , you have NO IDEA of how many boulders and rocks in long grass in a lifetime can be run into with steel cap protection boots that also does either break toes but leaves the person writhing in immense pain on the ground holding their foot! Half way to a bet that person could woken up screaming with a broken or hair-like fractured toe or foot when the meds wore off. That vid is enough for labourers to find those nurses geriatric home of they are alive and drop a boulder on their feet! It is pain you have no idea of and risk at work that is inevitable! Thankfully the final example had shoes on lying on the floor, that's required when working under some machinery or difficult to reach place! If you are a nurse, you don't want to ask a labourer what that felt like in person if they had seen that film, it would not require barbiturate to "vent" the answer! That is painful to watch! "Just to be fair to medical systems" I will mention some "actions" that appear to be "reckless" are standard tests to "produce a reaction" no different to some police questioning methods are a methodical teached procedure to use. But I would ACTUALLY tell people that see those what they are AND the multiple facets of points "collected back" such as pain , awareness - and to self protect inclusive more publically disputed details of involuntary reactions found in last two patients. I don't consider guessing or probability enough and as a thug from immensely violent localities I don't consider that isn't "for benefit of the prudes" whom have neither seen nor caused such reactions, because they don't live in that as a norm! The English language does contain the required words in plain English for nomenclature and description of boring accurate process, result and reason, it is not a matter of writing the comics Ted Bundy liked to read and view, thugs themselves can pick all those built up symptoms from knowing how to cause them , some down to writing them into people. And by this point, the persons wrote this spell checker need a good sudden passing punch in the ribs. In the cartoon Family Guy they did a parody of the opening of Little House on the Prairie, shows females all wore boots in the 19th century because "there were no safe cut paths" and often in cities they were factory workers, whether the problem had "rocks in the way" - "or not"! (That is no joke about rocks in the way and pain). Steel cap boots for most protect against "crushing" not forward movement impact much. Of forward movement impact much, there is a 1930s 40s black and white obscure iconic photo of a spindley adult woman riding a girls bike, they often use as a poster, the legs are definitely female length and oddly of a female in a photo, some traces of muscle show through. The last two patients have good condition powerful legs, a feature not near as common in modern people at those ages in such circumstances (an arguable point however). The "environment" of 1940s would have both legal and physical environment idiosyncrasies require supporting explanation.

[@abrahamiagm]

[@00zarzu00]

i have no idea what i just read, but it’s safe to say i believe it was written by a mentally ill chat gpt ai bot. wtf.

[@TheOldnic]

@@00zarzu00 If it goes as far as I see it I say something!

[@dorothybennett2191]

Sorry but there is no excuse to not have patients have on underwear, to me there is such a dehumanizing atmosphere in the early days of mental health care, on the other hand the shear load of humanity suffering and the “normal “ psyche attempting to “care” for our “brothers and sisters “ we all being apart of the human race…it is wonderful to see progress made in the 3 precious human beings here.. God help us all…

[@Quadman4853]

The reason you are asked to remove all clothing and put on only a hospital gown is because there is no such thing as a routine surgical operation. Even during so-called “minor” surgery, a patient might experience alterations in respiratory, cardiac or other monitored conditions. If surgery is done using conscious sedation and local anesthesia, a patient can still have a situation that arises that requires intubation to control the airway and potentially require general anesthesia. Should this happen and/or a situation that results in respiratory and/or cardiac arrest, or a patient must remain under general anesthesia or conscious sedation for more than 4 hours, it becomes necessary to drain the bladder and possibly monitor “fluids in and fluids put out” in order to monitor kidney function and the need for additional fluids or blood. This requires the placement of a urinary catheter which must be placed intraoperatively and any kind of underwear would make this difficult to maintain a sterile field.

[@awright119021]

@@Quadman4853 what are you talking about?? There was a woman rolling around on the floor with no underwear on. The one who couldn't stand. No one was having surgery in this video so your response makes zero sense 🤷‍♀️

[@jesteraurita]

Mmm, I do agree that she should have been wearing some, but there are SEVERAL possible reasons as to why she is not. She could have taken them off herself, she could struggle with bladder and bowl release issues, she could refuse to wear it at all, etc. I wouldn't go judging the nurses immediately, there's usually several other sides to a story than what you see. Hope this helped!

[@LeskoBrandon2x]

@@Quadman4853 my god I’ve seen copy and paste comments but this? This doesn’t just take the cake… it takes the whole bakery.

[@roahnosh]

modern karens karening

[@highonimmi]

Anyone else wanna go back in time for up close and personal chat with thar drunkard abusive dad?

[@bryanburnap4537]

Yeah and smack the shit out of his ass !!!!

[@andreluizalexandredossanto9653]

12:40 Antigamente seria considerado possessão.

[@amberspaulding]

I think it's so mysterious, but even at two or three, a psychiatrist told me, little girls know that sexual behavior from her father is wrong. Not necessarily even physical behavior, but treating her-- not like a little girl but treating her special, like a date. I really loved my father in law-- he always treated me like I was a very nice girl, whose goodness he believed in. Fathers are the ones who should provide that treatment for their daughters, of course, as they're sending them out into the world where they'll probably get hassled about their sexuality and it will be so valuable if they know they're "good" and worthy of respect. That's their parents' job.

[@darlingnikki1353]

you sound like you could be a useful fool to such men... why does a woman's work have to do with how "good" she is? and similarly, is a man's worth valued by you in the same way... and define "good"... by good, you mean, quiet and agreeable, or by good, do you mean virtuous and moral? and if you do mean, virtuous or moral, define what comprises such behaviour... and are you saying a sexual positive female deserves to be sexually abused or oppressed? Like what the hell are you talking about?

[@amyleelee84]

Jeeze did u see the size of that syringe 😮

[@TheOldnic]

At least the problem does not cross state borders but then some.

[@loislynncameron9608]

The little girl could walk, but she sure was drunk! (Drugged)

[@teijaflink2226]

The best would be to take her away from her father instead of drugging her, the father must have been absolutely horrifying for her to get all these symptoms.

[@LindaVanGalder-jt6yf]

I doubt she's still alive.

[@user-gw6iz3fz5e]

ای اقی خوشتیپ عموی عزیز من بوده بعد از دیدن عذاب کشیدن عموم دیگه نمیشه آرام باشم

[@msab657]

I wonder why this type of therapy fell out of favor?

[@melissajohnson2935]

It's coming back into use. They are using Ketamine and having great success! Problem is since it's experimental, health insurance won't pay for it as a treatment. It's easy to find a doctor and clinic that does it, you just have to pay out of pocket for it. I've read and heard that it works amazing for depression and anxiety.

[@nothintosay2010]

Its inhumane; not how Christ has taught us to heal those who need Him..

[@randomvintagefilm273]

​@nothintosay2010 what are you saying, that we should all go to spiritual healers and not doctors?

[@nothintosay2010]

@@randomvintagefilm273 "When he heard this he replied, 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick." "Go and learn the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice. And indeed I came to call not the upright, but sinners.' " but here ill give some in site. what these people do pretty much is sedate and experiment. these "experiments" are not given to us but experimented and tested thats why there recording and saying testing purposes and such, this is the truth in plain site. the deeper part is what alot of us cannot see is this is manifestations of spirits, these people have no control over themselves. take the girl 12 mins in for example. equivalent to the spirit in the little boy that would tense up and try to throw the child in fire. imagine how much different this would be if it was a priest in there performing an exorcist. were not condemned for seeking a doctor or natural remedies for such things as a broken bone or a cold no, but we are condemned if we don't seek the proper protection from the forces that be. i recommend reading the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. There's nothing that wouldn't be taught to you that was not taught to me. and ill tell you i know little to nothing..

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@melissajohnson2935 Yes, I think this is the Ketamine treatment I got back in the late 90s. I too, had to pay out of pocket at a clinic in downtown New York called "Club Twilo". Was great for my depression, my anxiety, pretty much my everything. The doctor serving it up wore giant rave pants and a psychodelic rainbow top. One of the side effects, when I came to, was severe hemoriods.

[@GigiKohler]

That woman at the end Looks very evil

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

What?! Now see here, Nurse Ratched is ones of the finest nurses we have at this institution

[@soft_serve_666]

​@@RaptorFromWeegeelololol 🤣

[@kittysoftpaws19]

Her name is Cornelia Wilbur. Do some research into the books Sybil and Sybil exposed

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@kittysoftpaws19 I think we're mostly pretty lazy around here. No ones going to go "Do some research". We're looking for someone to just rattle off stuff

[@kittysoftpaws19]

@@RaptorFromWeegee lol I gotcha. So Dr. Wilbur was very interested in DID. She worked with a patient named Shirley who she put into trances to create a her perfect version of divided consciousness. She used narcosynthesis to “bring back” memories of past trauma (these memories were false and easily suggestible). Both the patient and doctor became dependent on one another through transference and counter transference. The patient lied about their multiple personalities and dr. Wilbur pushed to see the extreme. They ended up creating a book that was seen as non-fiction and the truth. This would later be proven false and classified as non-fiction. They created a mass hysteria of Americans believing they too had DID and being misdiagnosed. This is how dissociative identity disorder started to be questioned as being real or false. (It is very real though)

[@elgeneralxx]

4:30 ok very creepy

[@hillarylarson4780]

Where’s the sound? What’s the point of a video with no sound?

[@johnconstantine7442]

ah the existential questions in life

[@breezystl777]

There was once a time where films didn't have sound. Like when this was made. lol

[@hillarylarson4780]

@@breezystl777 hahahaha omg yeah. I’ll see myself out 😂

[@breezystl777]

@@hillarylarson4780 lol no worries 😂💜💜 It did make me think "Damn... am I considered old now?" though 😂😂😂

[@markczarny7088]

It's actual film not video films with sound were probably too costly and we're in there infancy

[@sandywhat2429]

Psychiatry and it’s evil history.

[@endgovernmentextremism]

Oy, vey!

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

@@endgovernmentextremism odd response

[@feralbluee]

1:26 excuse me?! Infantile behavior.. first of all, that’s going way too far back in childhood for most of the exhibited behavior, and, secondly, calling the reactions a child (or adult) has infantile, is totally demeaning and dismissive! 😐😾

[@victorrash5151]

This is where the Democrat party of today came from these types of humans how did they normalize there actions

[@53mandevilla]

Exactly right! Omg. 😢😢😢

[@amberspaulding]

You mean the people who try so hard to get good food and a minimal standard of health care for everyone? To ensure money gets into the pockets of every person who has little or none?

[@passenger.6996]

Yeah... Right... How many of these people could have some parasite, protozoan causin symptons but doctors just dont figure it out before its too late, some of them ofc dont have and they accually have mental illness. For example there is alot of studies where even latent toxoplasmosis will causes symptons, headic, mental disorders, aggressive behavior, chills, flu like symptons, little fever time to time.

[@user-nt2nm7gf8j]

Dear God........"Marked improvement" blah blah blah............This girl had been traumatized before treatment and definitely because of "treatment"...............Wow, I can't imagine the nightmares this woman has today

[@robertlee9069]

Shock Therapy?......if these people only knew how barbaric we in the future would think of their work.

[@anthonytarczynski5423]

Shock therapy is still used today. Electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat refractory forms depression, mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and catatonia. Even treatment-resistant schizophrenia is sometimes still treated with electroconvulsive therapy. Up to 80-85 percent of patients report at least some alleviation of symptoms. As it turns out, the Grand mal/generalised tonic-clonic seizures included by electroconvulsive therapy and formerly by Cardiozol/Metrazol or insulin shock does have a therapeutic effect capable of reducing the severity of the symptoms of affective mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. There was a case relatively recently where a woman developed tonic-clonic epilepsy and was given anticonvulsant medication to treat it. She later became depressed and after becoming to apathetic to take her medication, she began suffering from the seizures again, which alleviated her depression more than the antidepressants she was prescribed. Shock therapy certainly has side effects like memory loss but it does work.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@anthonytarczynski5423 Yeah, I don't think it was ever totally taken out of use. Hell, we even used shock treatment at one of the black sites in Egypt during the war. Patients subject to rendition therapy were treated with Metrazol injections(available by special order). This achieved excellent results and generally met all the treatment goals we sought. Great way of releasing repressed information from the psyche. Orders from brass later forced us to change over to Hummingbird-therapy.

[@gup1973]

@@anthonytarczynski5423 It is, but in a much milder form. Patients aren't blasted into seizures any more.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

we still use shock therapy today and it’s highly effective.