A blank slate may be the wishful hope of many but for Dr. Ewen Cameron it was the goal. Cameron believed that “before healing can happen, everything that existed before needs to wiped out” (54). His work on reverting adults to a childlike state by using different methods such as long periods of isolation, placing the subjects “into intense sensory deprivation”(51), and subjecting them to electric shocks became the new form of torture preferred by the U.S. military. According to the testimonies of prisoners and the people who worked with them, found in “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein, the tortured entered a” delusional state” where they became childlike- unable to communicate in a way that could be understood by others, talking to people
