What is "psychotronics"

n. The study of the interaction between matter, energy and the mind (especially the supposed relationship in parapsychological effects), and of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body%20problem.

Psychotronics is a term coined in 1967 by Zdeněk Rejdák for the study of parapsychology. Extensive research programmes and numerous conferences into the field during the 1970s and 1980s sparked Cold War fears of mind control and other psychotronic weaponry being developed by Eastern Bloc countries which led to popularisation of the term in the West.

Since the mid-1990s, rumors of secret research into psychological warfare have led to a number of conspiracy theories. Campaign groups in Russia and the US have alleged that their governments are using psychotronic weapons against them to torture them, track their movements or control their minds. These campaigns are typically dismissed by psychologists as being a delusional response to auditory hallucinations similar to accounts of alien abductions.

The scientific community considers psychotronics to be pseudoscience.

Psychotronics is one of terms for scientific research and development in parapsychology.

Psychotronics or psychotronic may also mean:

• Psychotronics (conspiracy theory)
• Psychotronic Video a film magazine targeting : horror, exploitation, action, science fiction, etc.
  • Psychotronic, the titles of the precursor weekly and of the modern website by the same author on the same subject