Brainwashing, ferreal, yo.

And here I thought that The Ipcress File and A Clockwork Orange were just figments of twisted imagination, inspired by Cold War hysteria or Moloko-induced madness... As Slate reports in The Birth of Soft Torture, it turns out that there's a lengthy history of government-sponsored experimentation of breaking down the human Self, not only in Nazi Germany, but even in placid, pleasant Canada!