Samuel Chavkin, American researcher of the practice of deterrence from crimes, publisher of a number of medical journals, devoted his book to one of the most sophisticated and inhuman forms of violation of elementary human rights - a violent change in his psyche, consciousness, individuality. 1960-70s. marked by an extremely intensive development of neurobiology, in which fundamentally new directions have arisen and are successfully developing, studying the structure and functions of the human central nervous system. The results of these studies, both of truly scientific importance and representing hasty, unreasonable or obviously falsified "sensations," are fraught with the danger of their inhuman use not for the purpose of curing various mental disorders, but as a means of "modifying behavior" that deviates from the standards of bourgeois society.