https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&v=5PJtpvCMhkA
This video shows experiments designed to prove the theory of Learned Helplessness, a now outdated theory on which CIA psychologists Jessen and Mitchell based their torture program. The idea was that repeated and inescapable pain attacks lead to helpless feelings and depression. The original experiments were done on dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
The survivors of the CIA torture received a settlement. Jessen and Mitchell were not taken to court because they said they did not know the program was being used in that case.
I am against all animal experiments. Learned helplessness does not explain depression in humans. The CIA just used it as an excuse to torture.
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