Camera silens

This article covers space. For the tape, see Camera silens (tape) .

The camera silens ( Latin for "silent room", incorrectly also called camera silence ) is a completely dark and soundproof room. A long stay there can lead to hallucinations and other impairments of the ability to perceive . Even nowadays it is difficult to prove whether someone has been tortured in this way, as this type of torture leaves no visible traces and is therefore a white torture method .

From experimental psychological studies we know with certainty that such conditions can shatter people physically and mentally in a very short time. Physically, the so-called vegetative functions are gradually destroyed , which results, among other things, in pathological changes in the need for sleep, food intake and urination as well as in headaches or weight loss. Psychologically, there is emotional instability, and in a short period of time, temporal and spatial disorientation , difficulty concentrating, flight of thoughts and poor memory as well as language and understanding deficits.

In some films (e.g. The Experiment ) the camera silens is depicted as a black box , which, in addition to an absolute lack of sound and light, also causes a lack of exercise, which drives the tortured even more insane.

See also

• Solitary confinement
• Brainwashing
• Deprivation

literature

• By Nicola Kessler, Martin Walser, Helmut H. Koch: Writing in order to survive: Studies on prisoner literature . Forum-Verlag Godesberg, Mönchengladbach 2001, ISBN 3-930982-78-1 .
• Detlev Ipsen : place and landscape. VS Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-15102-9 , p. 24.
• Hartwig Hansen: Stimulus deprivation and brainwashing in the FRG . 2nd Edition. Libertarian Association, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-922611-26-5 .
• Hans-Peter Schwarz: Media-Art-History: Media Museum: Zkm - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe . Prestel, ISBN 3-7913-1878-0 .
• Freedom for which prisoners? In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1974, p. 56 ( online ).

Web links

• Camera Silens: The phantasm of “extermination custody ” (PDF; 113 kB) - Article by Gerd Koenen, at gerd-koenen.de , ed. by Wolfgang Kraushaar, Hamburg 2006, vol. 2 pp. 994–1010 (PDF file; 113 kB)
• Abuse of hypnosis and other trance techniques ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - Article by Hans Ulrich Gresch ( PDF 4.8 MB ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )) at the Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ deutschland-im-mittelalter.de
2. ↑ The death of Ulrike Meinhof. Report of the International Commission of Inquiry ; Tübingen: iva, 1979, ISBN 3-88266-012-0 ; New edition: Münster: Unrast, 2001, ISBN 3-89771-952-5 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this note. ), P. 11 f.