Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Some It Takes Longer. Did Vogeler want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little longer than others, but nobody can resist that treatment indefinitely." Reporters took away the impression that they had not yet heard the whole story...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...
...regime allows neither freedom of expression nor freedom of silence. What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
...experiment indicates, according to Professor Redlich, that well-balanced people can stick to a lie in spite of sodium amytal. But neurotics are likely either to confess eagerly, as the ex-model did, or get all tangled up, sometimes telling fantasies more damaging than the truth. In any case, Professor Redlich believes that statements made under the influence of sodium amytal and related drugs should not be treated as simple truth. A psychiatrist might make some sense out of them, but not a judge or a jury...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...