Teen Abducted By Teacher Is Acting Like Different Person; Family At A Loss

Had Patty Hearst Been Brainwashed?

Dr. Margaret Singer would claim that Hearst’s actions had been due to her becoming a “low-IQ, low-affect zombie” during her captivity. It is certainly true that she was only 87 lbs when she was arrested and that her IQ had dropped from 130 (as previously measured) to just 112. That’s an incredible fall of 18 points on a logarithmic scale. Hearst was much less intelligent than when she was abducted. The court’s doctor, Louis Jolyon West, also confirmed that she was a classic case of being brainwashed. He would state that if she had behaved differently, all sympathy would be with her.