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...with the brutal suppression of a postwar rebellion that flared in 14 of 18 Iraqi provinces while the first Bush Administration stood back. He made defiance a pillar of his power. "Saddam sees himself as a lone figure, battling the greatest power on earth," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist who has profiled the Iraqi leader for the CIA. Saddam felt, as did many others in the Arab world, that he had "won" the first Gulf War by not losing everything...
...first step in helping this 15-year-old recover, say psychiatrists, is to recognize that snap diagnoses of brainwashing and programming aren't much help. "Terms like these don't have any real clinical definition," says Dr. David Fassler, a professor at the University of Vermont and a psychiatrist who works with traumatized kids. People have made much of the fact that Smart did not cry out in public or try to escape. But this doesn't mean she was brainwashed. She may have been threatened with harm if she made a peep and thus pursued an unconscious survival strategy...
...easy. Saddam is considered one of the world's richest men, but over the past three decades, he has gone to great lengths to conceal his vast, ill-gotten fortune. "Money is profoundly important to Saddam, but not because of greed," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist and former CIA profiler of the Iraqi leader. "It represents instead his insurance policy and a tool through which he exercises power and manipulates others...
...everyone takes it right, and even a single dose may not be safe for everyone. The FDA has received at least 1,500 reports of health problems associated with ephedra supplements, including almost 90 that resulted in death. The problem, says Dr. Harrison Pope, a Harvard psychiatrist who has studied supplements, is that it is hard to know exactly how many people use ephedra, which would tell doctors whether 1,500 is a significant portion. The ephedra industry says it is being unfairly targeted. "More than 16,000 deaths each year occur from the use of aspirin and similar drugs...
...psychological effects of solitary confinement are profound. Boston psychiatrist Stuart Grassian has noted that “solitary confinement itself can cause a very specific kind of psychiatric syndrome, which in its worst stages can lead to an agitated, hallucinatory, confusional psychotic state often involving random violence and self-mutilation.” The extreme sensory and intellectual deprivation that prisoners experience locked up these cells frequently leads to suicide attempts. In addition to the severity of the punishment, prisoners in such conditions are also denied rehabilitative opportunities such as education and drug treatment programs, reducing the likelihood that they...