Colin A. Ross

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Colin Andrew Ross (* 1952 in Manitoba ) is a Canadian psychiatrist . His work focuses on the treatment and research of psychological trauma and dissociative identity disorder . His mind control theses are considered speculative.

Life and research

In 1995 he founded the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychogical Trauma, which offers special trauma treatments in various hospitals in the United States. During his specialist training, he came into contact with patients who allegedly suffered from the then relatively unexplored and controversial dissociative identity disorder. Some patients reported practicing alleged satanic rituals in therapy , which prompted Ross to conduct research on the subject of ritual violence . His work resulted in a book on ritual practices in satanic cults. But Ross could not produce any evidence for the existence of such secret cults, the corresponding fears are considered a large-scale moral panic .

Mind Control Theses

In the course of his medical work, he treated patients with similar clinical pictures who reported on military and intelligence experiments for mind control . Thereupon he dealt with the statements of alleged victims like Cathy O'Brien and Carol Rutz and evaluated files of the CIA , which had been released through the Freedom of Information Act .

Ross concluded that immediately after World War II, the CIA began extensive mind control and drug research programs, as well as developing new interrogation methods (see MKULTRA ). He claims the CIA succeeded in creating and deploying a " Manchurian candidate, " the creation of multiple personalities through torture, drugs and hypnosis. Ross sees evidence that the CIA began programming children into spies and assassins as early as the late 1950s. Ross also considers it unlikely that these programs - as claimed - were discontinued in the early 1970s.

The Israeli psychologist Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi objects to Ross' representation that there are no brainwashing techniques as the author assumes. The numerous cases of multiple personalities diagnosed since 1980 are not due to brainwashing but to misdiagnosis. In this respect, Ross' accusation against the American Psychiatric Association that it did not intervene when its members participated in MKULTRA can also be turned around, because they say nothing against their members spreading conspiracy theories about Satanism and alien abductions . Overall, the book proves that the fringes of psychiatry, where Satanism and mind control proliferated, currently reached in part to the middle. Ross is accused of suggestive manipulation of the material; He does not provide any solid evidence.

Paranormal abilities

In 2008, Ross applied to the James Randi Educational Foundation for their award, claiming that he could use the power of his eyes to make a loudspeaker make a sound. In 2010 Ross published a study on this at the American Anthropological Association. In an exchange of letters with the skeptic Steven Novella from The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe , however, he admitted that he had connected a biofeedback sensor to his laptop, which responded in a known way to the blink of an eye. No test was carried out at JREF, in 2008 Ross received the rather ironic Pigasus Award .

Fonts (selection)

  • with G. Fraser: Recognizing Multiple Personality Disorder. In: Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. Volume 20, 1987, No. 5, pp. 357-360.
  • Military Mind Control: A Story of Trauma & Recovery. Manitou Communications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9765508-9-1 .
  • Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment. University of Toronto Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8020-7357-0 .
  • Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Psychiatrists. ISBN 0-9704525-1-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi Review - Bluebird. located on Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center website, February 2, 2002, accessed July 27, 2020.
  2. ↑ Suggestive Insinuations But No Proof: A Review of “The CIA Doctors” by Colin A. Ross MD In: Dysgenics.com , January 5, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2008/08/colin_ross_has_an_eyebeam_of_e.php
  4. ^ Colin Andrew Ross: Hypothesis: The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief . In: Anthropology of Consciousness . 21, 2010, pp. 47-57. doi : 10.1111 / j.1556-3537.2010.01020.x
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Colin A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Colin Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Manitoba