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Sensory DeprivationInformation available on sensory deprivation is rife, yet with conflicts. Used extensively in interrogations, it has been deemed a form of torture by certain human rights groups. Yet there are other instances where similar conditions are induced as a form of therapy, to induce pleasant interludes of reflection. The controversy has led to the point where the term ‘isolation tank’ is applied by the protagonists of therapy in which the participant is deprived of all the senses. Well, I did not have the time to build an ‘isolation tank’, one in which the subject is immersed in salt water warmed precisely to body temperature with all sight and sound removed. So if Reggie’s care can be considered a form of torture then so be it. Though there will remain some sense of feelin