ABSTRACT
This chapter is about malignant processes that use depth-psychological or psychoanalytic knowledge to dominate other people through malevolent uses of emotion. It shows how psychoanalytic theory can be recruited for good or for evil, for harm or for repair. Aligning itself with the present book’s theme, it explores the processes at work in mind control methods that rely on brain functioning as well as on relational-transferential factors. While it does this, it makes at the same time some statements about psychoanalysis itself. The symmetrical contrasts as well as the similarities between these techniques and therapeutic methods relying on depth psychology make for an instructive and disturbing subject.
