Murder -- Fiction; Psychiatrists -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Space stations -- Fiction
As the hospital hove into view, he said to Alma Heller, "We have just
seen the real beginning of psychological warfare. Where it took us
a whole roomful of equipment to condition Britten's responses to a
trigger word, he was able to do it to Jones and Brady single-handed.
His method is something we'd like to know. But more than that, Britten
himself was conditioned to respond to a signal unknown to us and
undetected by us. My God, it could only have been telepathic!"
Alma Heller's eyes closed for a moment.
"I think," she said, "that psychiatrists are going to reach the same
position that physicists did during World War II."
Morris Wolf looked dourly out of the window, watching the hospital
balloon up under the helicopter.
"That's the most unpleasant thing anybody has said all day," he replied.
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