<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1342" style="float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;" title="pg11_1" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pg11_1.jpg" alt="pg11_1" width="150" height="220" />A BBC Radio documentary about William Sargant, respected psychiatrist and author of <em>Battle for the Mind </em>(1957), one of the first books about mind control, the dangers of which the author was a firm believer in. In 1976 Sargant would be called as an expert witness at the Patty Hearst trial.

There was another aspect to Sargant, which the Scientology anti-psychiatry site <a href="http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol36I2/page11.htm" target="_blank">Freedom</a> helpfully describes: 

<em>And there was another dark, secret side to William Sargant. He had a voracious sexual appetite that could not be satisfied by a normal relationship. Even though he had married a delightful woman named Peggy, he had made it clear he wanted no children. Whatever Peggy may have suspected, she never challenged him about the way he regularly disappeared for a weekend. His destinations were mansions in the depths of the English countryside where those recovering from the dull gray years of World War II had found a new way to satisfy themselves at “swinger” parties. Many were out-and-out orgies—often attended by doctors, lawyers and pillars of their churches.</em>

Listen or download the documentary via the excellent <a href="http://speechification.com/2009/04/06/revealing-the-mind-bender-general/">Speechification</a>