Psychotechnology Research Institute

Psychotechnology Research Institute

Psychotechnology Research Institute is a Russian company that researches and experiments in psychoprobing devices and procedures. It was founded by well known Russian scientist Igor Smirnov, who received frequent press attention.

The PRI focuses its research and development on "Computer psychosemantic analysis".

According to the head of the PRI, Elena Rusalkina, the Soviet military enlisted Smirnov's psychotechnology during the Soviet Union's bloody war in Afghanistan in the 1980s to treat post-traumatic stress syndrome in Russian soldiers.

Location

It is located in a building at the Peoples Friendship University of Russia in Moscow.

The United States Department of Homeland Security has been reviewing Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology, or SSRM Tek, which is a software-based "mind reader" that supposedly tests a subject's involuntary response to subliminal messages.

References

* [http://www.northampsychotech.com]


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