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BBC Dr Michael Mosley- The Brain A Secret History (2011) – Mind Control and Emotions (2 avi)Dr Michael Mosley  exploration of the brutal history of experimental psychology. Experiments on the human mind have led to profound insights into how our brain works – but have also involved great cruelty and posed some terrible ethical dilemmas.Mind ControlTo begin, Michael traces the sinister ways this science has been used to try to control our minds. He finds that the pursuit of mind control has led to some truly horrific experiments and left many casualties in its wake. Extraordinary archive captures what happened – scientists systematically change the behaviour of children; law abiding citizens give fatal electric shocks; a gay man has electrodes implanted in his head in an attempt to turn his sexuality.Michael takes a hallucinogenic drug as part of a controlled experiment to try to understand how its mind-bending properties can change the brain.This is a scientific journey goes to the very heart of what we hold most dear – our free will, and our ability to control our own destiny.EmotionsIn this film, Michael investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our minds – our emotions.Michael meets survivors – both participants and scientists – of some of the key historical experiments. Many of these extraordinary research projects were captured on film – a baby boy is taught to fear random objects, baby monkeys are given mothers made from wire and cloth, and an adult is deliberately violent before a group of toddlers.Michael takes part in modern day experiments to play his own small part in the quest to understand emotions.