A multi-million dollar proposal for a “Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence” (CSRV) at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) has been designed to focus on the “pathologically violent individual” and, in the words of its main proponent, is aimed at “altering undesirable behavior.” In this time of psychosurgery, (remote controlled) electrical stimulation of the brain, chemotherapies and prison “behavior modification” programs, there is real danger that mind-control practices are replacing less sophisticated physical approaches to enforced conformity or repression. In this context, violence centers like the one at UCLA serve to give scientific legitimacy to such forms of repression.