Trance: Formation of America details the life of Cathy O'Brien, who claims to be a survivor of , specifically a sub-program she identifies as Project Monarch . The book posits that the U.S. government used trauma-based mind control to create "slaves" for covert operations. Central Claims
Victims are allegedly subjected to extreme abuse to create programmable states of mind.
The authors claim they attempted to bring this testimony to the U.S. Congress in the late 1980s but were silenced under the National Security Act of 1947 . Publication History
According to the authors, the program utilizes severe psychological trauma to induce , effectively fracturing a victim's psyche into multiple "alters".
