But disaster capitalists have no interest in repairing what was. In Iraq, Sri Lanka and New Orleans, the process deceptively called "reconstruction" began with finishing the job of the original disaster by erasing what was left of the public sphere and rooted communities, then quickly moving to replace them with a kind of corporate New Jerusalem - all before the victims of war or natural disaster were able to regroup and stake their claims to what was theirs

They had gone to Cameron seeking relief from minor psychiatric ailments - postpartum depression, anxiety, even for help to deal with maritial difficulties - and had been used, without their knowledge or permission, as human guinea pigs to satisfy til CIA's thirst for information about how to control the human mind.

According to these new rules, the U.S. government was free to use the methods it had developed in the 1950s under layers of secrecy and deniability - only now it was out in the open, without fear of prosecution.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did.

But it is the work of Cameron, and his recipe for disturbing "the time-space-image", that forms the core of the Kubark formula. The manual describes several of the techniques that were honed to depattern patients in the basement of the Allen Memorial Institute.